Why so excited for the iPhone X ? It's the same old thing running boring iOS

[Tig Bitties]

There's a good YouTube video I need to find again. But it compared the iPhone 8 Plus to the iPhone X, and actually the 8 Plus is the more powerful phone, with better battery life. Of course based on specs. He also pointed out how much in common both the 8 Plus and X have. These phones are damn near identical. Same A11 processor. Same 3GB RAM. Same harddrive. Same camera. Both are IP67 certified.

But the 8 Plus has the 1080p screen being more battery friendly, and less of a power hog. And the iPhone X has the front sensors always on looking at your face, and running in the background, some expect that to be a slight battery drain, as well as use up power.

So if you want the most powerful and fastest iPhone this Fall, and better battery life, it's the 8 Plus and not the X.

 

[PhoneI]

I am totally confused the major hype for the new iPhone X, I just don't get it. It's nothing new at all to really be excited about. And I am super smartphone nerd, total gadget geek.

Because it's running the same old boring iOS, sure the iPhone 8 will be all new tech, catching up to the looks and bezel less display Android phones have had for a year already. But at the end of the day, the fancy new phone wears off quickly, and your left with the OS you use day in, and day out 24/7, and iOS 11 is just like lame boring, locked down iOS 10, which was just like old iOS 9, which was like lame iOS 8, and the Fischer Price toy iOS 7 which started it all.

Who gives two ****s about the new design of the iPhone X, when it's running the same iOS still from iOS 7 basically ? I'd be way more excited and pumped if the new phone was just the iPhone 8 Plus, but with a totally revamped major revision to iOS. That would be breaking news and truly jaw dropping. But right now, this X is basically a Galaxy S8 running iOS. Yawn Once the shiny new toy feeling wears off, it will feel just like the iPhone 7, and iPhone 6S, and iPhone 6, etc...Nothing new at all really here.

To be honest, I fail to see the big excitement for the iPhone X, What's the big deal here ? My point being the OS in it, is the same thing we've seen for years, nothing new here, just old iOS, nothing new. Sure the phone itself is better FINALLY, but that's it.

Thing is I LOVE the iPhone, a Jailbreaked 7 Plus is the best smartphone IMO right now. But only JB iPhone's do it for me, otherwise Nexus / Pixel all the way.

I think you meant to say, same old.......stable, secure, reliable, easily upgrade-able, running best selection of mobile apps, operating system.

 

[dallas112678]

agree ... ios 11 is fix for ios 10
nothing special

dont know why took yrs and appledont have any new plan on ios
.....

Is it a fix, though? I’ve gotten soooooo many more frame drops/stutters doing simple things such as opening safari/e-mail on my 7+.

 

[DNichter]

There's a good YouTube video I need to find again. But it compared the iPhone 8 Plus to the iPhone X, and actually the 8 Plus is the more powerful phone, with better battery life. Of course based on specs. He also pointed out how much in common both the 8 Plus and X have. These phones are damn near identical. Same A11 processor. Same 3GB RAM. Same harddrive. Same camera. Both are IP67 certified.

But the 8 Plus has the 1080p screen being more battery friendly, and less of a power hog. And the iPhone X has the front sensors always on looking at your face, and running in the background, some expect that to be a slight battery drain, as well as use up power.

So if you want the most powerful and fastest iPhone this Fall, and better battery life, it's the 8 Plus and not the X.

It's a wash, basically the same performance in the end. The Plus is down scaled, while the X runs at native. Battery life should be very similar. It more so just comes down to if you want the features of the X or you prefer the more cost efficient option with similar performance. Each of these phones are the fastest out there, it really makes no difference.

 

[The Game 161]

to be honest I don't want to hear about specs on paper when it comes to real performance the x will be just as fast as the 8 plus. Not going to be any different.

 

[NiCk-]

On the one hand, I understand what you are saying and it's why I'm still on an iPhone 5s which I plan to keep for at least one more year. The hardware may have evolved but there is nothing really serious that my 5s can't do OS-wise. 3D Touch is cool, but not enough for me.

On the other hand, you posted 2 jailbreak articles and the only interesting thing for me was Dark Mode. The other things are not really "features" that I would like to see in iOS and some of them I'm pretty sure that we never will (e.g. file system access)

So, I guess that at the end of the day, smartphones have reached a point where they matured so much that for the next decade, we'll only see evolutions rather than revolutions. That's not bad and it kind of reminds me of macOS/Windows. There are some people out there who always want to have the latest and greatest and upgrade every year. Most of us though don't need to and shouldn't have to upgrade every year. Thus, rather than complaining, spend your hard earned money somewhere else and be happy that you have an amazing smartphone that you don't need to be upgrade in order to catch up with the times

P.s. I think that the iPhone X looks fantastic.

 

[DNichter]

An OS is only exciting if you can have weather widgets on your home screen and cool robot app launchers