That's what I want to know. Seems like a waste of the "good" version of a limited-supply iPhone.Did they tear down the CDMA version? Or did Qualcomm make it into some GSM models?
That's what I want to know. Seems like a waste of the "good" version of a limited-supply iPhone.Did they tear down the CDMA version? Or did Qualcomm make it into some GSM models?
thank you and before some troll replies but but but they are using xyz part from someone - note everything in that phone was custom designed to Apple specs to fit in the dimensions they want - you can't do that with off the shelf part and without an incredible amount of planning.man.. apple hardware engineers are wizards non the less
Why do the faceID parts have to be so far apart? At first glance it looks like they could become more compact in the future. I’m sure there are specific reasons, but found it interesting.
Well, I don’t know about the iPhone X, but I know the Samsung IR scanner caused progressive cumulative problems with my eyes and my husband eventually also started exhibiting symptoms of whatever damage we were incurring that caused our eye pain. It came upon me gradually and got to the point of lingering pain, so I had to stop using Iris scanning.It may not even be a concern, depending on the intensity and duration of the IR facial scanner, but it's of enough concern that other folks have wondered about possible eye damage with chronic use of face id. Already found this article via Google:
https://1reddrop.com/2017/09/16/will-face-id-iphone-x-damage-retina/
Time will tell. On an unrelated topic, I note that the battery pack actually has slightly less capacity than the one in my iPhone 6s Plus. That might be compensated for with more energy efficient processors, displays, and the like. Perhaps before long we'll get battery life comparisons.
Maybe.
I have to think even one century from now, people will look back and laugh at today's tech- even this... much as us looking back 100 years to a time when trying to replicate the most basic functions of this thing involved wired telephones, telegraphs, the postal system, artists and/or film-based photography, visits to many libraries, typewriters and so on. In 1917, radio was barely getting going and there was no television. If you wanted to FaceTime, you had to travel to the person with the face with which you wanted some time... and actually speak to each other using the human mouth and ears (without microphones, headphones or speakers).
100 years ago, you probably used the restroom by stepping OUTSIDE to a separate little building. Commercially available toilet paper was still about 3 years away from coming to market (just ponder those possibilities). Or don't: one of the big selling points for Northern TP as late as the 1930s was that it was "splinter free."
You had probably never seen deodorants, so just about everybody likely smelled pretty bad. You might have traveled in a motorized vehicle, maybe as fast as 20 or 30 miles per hour. You probably used a paper map (likely hand-drawn) to get from place to place. Posting to a board where others might see it (like this) involved writing the message on paper and some kind of tack & physical board somewhere. If you spent much time asking a physical object questions ("Hey Siri"), you'd probably soon be taken to a special home. Etc.
I suspect 100 years from now, our great grandchildren will wonder how we ever survived these times with such primitive technology, including laughing at the idea of having to carry around a slab of metal & glass to be able to communicate in the most basic of ways: "Great-grandpa, how did you ever survive the early 21st century?" Now, if it is true historians, I think you are right. Watch History channel documentaries now and they'll gush for 10 or 15 minutes over the genius in how some rock was shaped into some tool or the genius of how some massive stones were configured to identify the equinoxes. But the mass population will probably look at iPhone X like we look at early typewriters and laugh at what Great-grandpa had to deal with. Consider these time travelers from just a few centuries in the future...
"Grandpa, tell us again, you had to plug this phone thing in to charge a chemical battery?"
"And this battery could only power it for up to maybe 1 day? Oh my gosh!"
"You couldn't render a holographic image?"
"You had to remember some (phone) numbers to be able to contact someone?"
"This huge device had only 3GB of RAM? I think I have an eyelash with more RAM than that."
"These basic functions cost about half of a whole month's pay? And then you paid a monthly rental (service) fee to be able to actually use it for anything? And then the very next year, you felt compelled to buy a slightly newer model- typically for even more money- that barely did anything more than the one you already owned? And then again the next year too?"
"Did you ever see a dinosaur Grandpa?"
"Did you know Abraham Lincoln?"
"Who were these musicians called Elvis and The Beatles?" Speaking of which, here's some historians remembering the latter from the year 3000...
Where are the Apple haters saying this is old 2 year tech? lol. I'd like to see anything like this 2 years ago from an Android maker.
Would be a cool side by side with the Gen 1This is a mind boggling piece of tech. Amazing what happens in 10 years.
thank you and before some troll replies but but but they are using xyz part from someone - note everything in that phone was custom designed to Apple specs to fit in the dimensions they want - you can't do that with off the shelf part and without an incredible amount of planning.
What's even crazier is the replacement price. It costs more to replace a broken rear than it costs to replace a broken front including screen! I believe this is because of the labor time involved.It may look nice and organised but having to replace the chassis if you crack the back glass is a baffling engineering decision.
Not sure about having two batteries in it either, thats twice the cost to fix.
The phone is only ip67 as well which apple could do much better on.
The compact circuit board is interesting.
Why do the faceID parts have to be so far apart? At first glance it looks like they could become more compact in the future. I’m sure there are specific reasons, but found it interesting.
Even though I just got this phone today, I can’t help but imagine how big the battery will be on iPhone 11+. Probably over 4000mah which would be unbelievable.
Is the phone heavy/bulky?
Interesting information about the folded logic board of the X. Impressive design really.It doesn't sound like a big deal because MR left out a key piece of information regarding the logic board. The logic board in the iPhone X is actually 35% larger than the board in the 8+. Larger. The way Apple engineered the X's logic board, essentially folding it in half with components on both sides, allow it to take up 70% of the space of the 8+'s board.
As with a lot of things, it's not what you say but how you say it.
The logic board on the iPhone X is 35% larger than the logic board on the iPhone 8+. Even though the board is larger, Apple managed to fit it into a space that only uses 70% of the space used by the 8+'s logic board. Even if the 8 and 8+ use the same logic board, the 8+ connotes larger board, thus more impressive.
It also has a speaker on the middle, I think is embedded on the display assemblyWhy do the faceID parts have to be so far apart? At first glance it looks like they could become more compact in the future. I’m sure there are specific reasons, but found it interesting.