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iPhone X Named One of the '25 Best Inventions of 2017' by TIME
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it's not about how the phone looks. it's about facial recognition and no buttons. this is a watershed moment. apple leads the way. as usual.
make with the hating, but.. it's true.
Hmmm! Interesting! May I ask, why did you buy it then? Because is popular or trendy or because you believe it is the best smartphone? I bought one because I believe it is the best but if you bought it because you believe it is trendy or popular I wont judge you.
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Can I ask, have you got the X and are you using face ID?
I use the phone now without even thinking of it, and this is as close as it gets to feel like you are using a phone without pascode or any security.It is like an invisible security. You use the phone and don't think about. I get reminded occasionally when a quick Face ID animation appears but that for me is just so quick and it will only get faster. Not to mention the auto-fill and all other stuff that you would before place your finger on the Touch ID, now it just happens as you use it. I am personally loving it and for me is a bigger then AMOLED or the edge to edge display.
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It's not the notch, it's the bottom of the display where the display controller is. The Essential has a chin there. Great that they made a "notch" but they ALSO lost all that space on the bottom.
It's not really an "invention". It's a redesign of something that already has been invented.
And when it came out, the iPad was "just a big iPod touch." But it changed tablet computing forever. Whenever people try to marginalize a new Apple product by saying (or insinuating) that it's "just (blank)" it always seems to end up changing the landscape. Right now, it may not seem like a big deal, but it's just the beginning. There is a lot of potential for the whole dot projector thing and ARkit that I think is going to end up being amazing. FaceID and Animoji are the gimmes that demonstrate the potential. It's when people start really brainstorming new ways of using that tech that we're really going to see some mind-blowing stuff.
Yep! let's hope the OLED screen will last that long! I'm assuming you got the Apple Care?
Except that it is not true. Apple is not the only manufacturer with no home button. In fact they are not even close to being the first. While Apple's way of Facial recognition is a different take on it, facial recognition is not new either. And many others have done exactly what apple is doing. In fact Apple bought a company that worked on this very same technology for the Kinect and Intel has their own version too
Author of Time article has neither seen a recent high end Android phone. Check "Essential PH1", much better hardware design than X phone. If they are talking about swipe gesture based controls, need to check Nokia N9 and Blackberry Z10.
Nokia should get credit for original idea. Blackberry took a shot at that years later. Now Apple is doing this, everyone says it's earth shattering innovative. just wow!
Nokia should get credit for original idea. Blackberry took a shot at that years later. Now Apple is doing this, everyone says it's earth shattering innovative. just wow!
You're honestly going to tell me the Essential Phone, the one with the bad camera, is better than the newest iPhone?
FaceID is not an invention.
An invention is something you come up with. "FaceID" is the only thing Apple came up with here. I mean the name, hence the quotes. Microsoft had Lumia 950 shipping with a face recognition AND iris scanning technology bundled together and that was in 2015... Worked in pretty much the same way.
Apple rarely truly invents anything. They are what some call a "close follower." They wait and watch. When a technology reaches a point where a broader adaption is likely, that's when they devote heavy resources to perfect said technology (or acquire a company that has) and launch a product that is usually a better and more complete implementation of that technology. I think it's the brilliant way they work out small details that all of a sudden make this (not so) new tech more accessible and more intuitive to use that truly sets Apple apart.
Touch ID was the same exact story. Apple didn't invent it. A fingerprint reader used to unlock a phone existed for years before Apple's implemention. Apple bought a company that developed this technology. They used what they learned to "invent" TouchID.
They are extremely good at this and that's why I like them.
FaceID is not an invention.
An invention is something you come up with. "FaceID" is the only thing Apple came up with here. I mean the name, hence the quotes. Microsoft had Lumia 950 shipping with a face recognition AND iris scanning technology bundled together and that was in 2015... Worked in pretty much the same way.
Apple rarely truly invents anything. They are what some call a "close follower." They wait and watch. When a technology reaches a point where a broader adaption is likely, that's when they devote heavy resources to perfect said technology (or acquire a company that has) and launch a product that is usually a better and more complete implementation of that technology. I think it's the brilliant way they work out small details that all of a sudden make this (not so) new tech more accessible and more intuitive to use that truly sets Apple apart.
Touch ID was the same exact story. Apple didn't invent it. A fingerprint reader used to unlock a phone existed for years before Apple's implemention. Apple bought a company that developed this technology. They used what they learned to "invent" TouchID.
They are extremely good at this and that's why I like them.
The Lumia didn't face Face Recognition. It just had Iris.
The iPhone X may (or may not) be a great phone. But it certainly is not an "invention". It's a smartphone and we've had those for years now.