Bought my wife an XS today, serial starts with G0 for whatever that's worth.
She loves it, phone is cosmetically perfect. Screen is nice and even with no bad tints. It is a bit warmer than my 8.
But the biggest thing, holy hell is it dim. Yes, max brightness, auto brightness off, true tone and nightshift off, of course. With the same settings as my 8, the brightness on a plain white page is not even comparable, my 8 is like 25% brighter? I tried to take a picture with my crappy iPad Air 2 but the picture doesn't show nearly the discrepancy seen in real life. I'm not returning the phone, because she's happy with it and couldn't care less (she is a low brightness/true tone user whereas I am a full brightness/no true tone user), but damn that is one dim display.
Don't get me wrong, on it's own it looks great, but when it's next to my 8? Ouch...
She loves it, phone is cosmetically perfect. Screen is nice and even with no bad tints. It is a bit warmer than my 8.
But the biggest thing, holy hell is it dim. Yes, max brightness, auto brightness off, true tone and nightshift off, of course. With the same settings as my 8, the brightness on a plain white page is not even comparable, my 8 is like 25% brighter? I tried to take a picture with my crappy iPad Air 2 but the picture doesn't show nearly the discrepancy seen in real life. I'm not returning the phone, because she's happy with it and couldn't care less (she is a low brightness/true tone user whereas I am a full brightness/no true tone user), but damn that is one dim display.
Don't get me wrong, on it's own it looks great, but when it's next to my 8? Ouch...
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