I got mine yesterday, FaceID is certainly improved coming from an X, it does work at a bigger angle, great when it's on my desk, I barely have to move. Wide angle and dark mode are great too. Overall not a huge upgrade but some nice to have extras. Will be interesting to see how the battery life is, my X was passed it's best but it was still rare that I I ran out of battery before the end of the day, though I'm not a heavy user. While at work I have a work iPhone 8 so that also gets used a lot during the day and while driving my personal phone is plugged into my car for Car Play, which is now much better.