Its an interesting review. Other than the form factor, face unlocking (mostly) and animated poop emoji - it does what the 8 does for significantly more money. The form factor is worth some coin though - to get that big screen that fits in your pocket.
The major differences are;
- Form factor (Edge-to-Edge Display, you get a 5,8-inch display in the body of a non-Plus iPhone, more or less)
- OLED display panel instead of LCD.
- You get dual-lens camera, with optical image stabilisation on both lenses in a phone that is almost as small as the non-Plus iPhone.
- It has a much larger battery for its size compared to the non-Plus iPhone. Its almost the same size as the battery in the Plus model.
- FaceID, at the loss of TouchID
- Supposedly much better front facing camera solution due to the "Romeo and Juliet" 3D-depth camera thingy
- 3GB RAM vs 2GB (when compared to the non-Plus, the Plus also has 3GB RAM)
Minor differences;
- Steel frame instead of aluminium
- Vertical instead of horizontal camera arrangement
- Higher pixel density (who really cares at this point?)
- Unique software features that we currently don't know whether will be ported to the "non-X" models.
- Animoji
