Good for you but the iPhone X is not a watch. There are other components that get affected if not careful...like the screen coating.
Also, just the thought of removing something from the phone (even ever so gradually) makes me cringe.
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Which model will show scratches more? Silver or grey?
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Good for you but the iPhone X is not a watch. There are other components that get affected if not careful...like the screen coating.
Also, just the thought of removing something from the phone (even ever so gradually) makes me cringe.
Oh yeah? The Apple Watch SS’s screen is sapphire, the iPhone X’s is Ion-X. Good luck on not getting excess polish on it without affecting it’s coating. The oleophobic coating goes first, then what?
The point is, it’s not meant to be polished.
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I do think you could mask it off and polish it safely if you felt like spending an hour or two doing it. The Apple Watch is more like a little iPhone than a typical watch. Who says that the Sapphire glass is any more resilient to whatever chemicals are in the cloth?
That being said, I’ll let someone else on the forum try it first
All that effort for a phone...not worth it.
As you said, you’ll let someone else try it first...it’s this same uncertainty that helped me sway over to the grey.
As you said, you’ll let someone else try it first...it’s this same uncertainty that helped me sway over to the grey.
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There is a video of a guy dropping the space gray several times on concrete and he said it barely scratched if at all.
Silver
Seeing the silver X in person for the first time yesterday felt so disappointing. Space gray is better although not so much better. Apple hasn't made a nice iPhone design in half a decade.
Gen 1 (2G-3Gs)
Metal to plastic
Gen 2 (4-5s/SE)
Glass to metal
Gen 3 (6-8)
Metal to glass
Gen 4 (X-?)
Glass to ?
I hope by 2019, Apple does what Sony does and leave behind the glass backs. What next? MacBooks with all-glass lids?
Only iPhone designs I ever liked.
Seeing the silver X in person for the first time yesterday felt so disappointing. Space gray is better although not so much better. Apple hasn't made a nice iPhone design in half a decade.
Gen 1 (2G-3Gs)
Metal to plastic
Gen 2 (4-5s/SE)
Glass to metal
Gen 3 (6-8)
Metal to glass
Gen 4 (X-?)
Glass to ?
I hope by 2019, Apple does what Sony does and leave behind the glass backs. What next? MacBooks with all-glass lids?
Only iPhone designs I ever liked.
The silver got me too. The silver in the store was exactly white. The bands were exactly white. I liked the iPhone 6/6S bands for the silver color on those better. They were not white.Silver
Seeing the silver X in person for the first time yesterday felt so disappointing. Space gray is better although not so much better. Apple hasn't made a nice iPhone design in half a decade.
Gen 1 (2G-3Gs)
Metal to plastic
Gen 2 (4-5s/SE)
Glass to metal
Gen 3 (6-8)
Metal to glass
Gen 4 (X-?)
Glass to ?
I hope by 2019, Apple does what Sony does and leave behind the glass backs. What next? MacBooks with all-glass lids?
Only iPhone designs I ever liked.
Looks like it’s smooth concrete....but never the less. Some thought that just looking it would scratch the space gray lol.
as far as the bands....between the two. I was in the apple store today and happened to checked the displays....the bottom by the charging port is a high wear spot....and although the silver stainless steel band can be polished. Overall the PVD space gray ones looked in better shape.