Poll: ** The Official iPhone X Thread **

Which iPhone X are you getting?

  • Silver 64GB

    Votes: 35 6.6%

  • Space Grey 64GB

    Votes: 53 10.0%

  • Silver 256GB

    Votes: 31 5.8%

  • Space Grey 256GB

    Votes: 98 18.4%

  • I want one but it's too expensive

    Votes: 125 23.5%

  • I'm not interested

    Votes: 190 35.7%
  • Total voters
    532
Ayahuasca said:
Do you actually use it all day everyday though?

My main use is when I wake up and when I go to bed, I don't use my phone a great deal at work due to company policy or being busy when working from home and on the weekends I don't spend much time on it either, you're making it sound like your glued to it all hours.
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"I don't need it, therefore why would anyone else need it"

I must use my phone hundreds of times a day: WhatsApp all day long, iMessage, podcasts and/or Spotify on the commute, Spotify during the day, Twitter, news, weather (Dark Sky -- amazing), my todo list, capturing notes, Evernote, Dropbox, my calendar, the occasional phone call, Two-factor authenticator for a bunch of stuff, Maps, CityMapper, Live Trains, Uber on the odd occasion, VPN into home to check bits and pieces... the list goes on. I use my phone 100x more than any other digital device in my life, including iPad, laptop, PC and Mac, TV.

Edit: forgot one of the most important uses, which is to keep in touch with my family through photos (iCloud Photo sharing) and FaceTime.
 
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Tauren said:
iOS is the best mobile os on the market. It's hardly "gash" lol
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Let's be real here, iOS still looks like a child's toy with bubbly UX and bright colours everywhere. IMO it does not suit the styling of say the iPX.

And you still only have the same icon grid so it all looks a bit "accessibility mode".

Android by comparison has polished up each version. Android's issues were with default OEM skins which can be ugly, but now we gave system theme support, so this is no longer an issue for most.

I imagine this will now open a can of worms :p
 
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mrk said:
Let's be real here, iOS still looks like a child's toy with bubbly UX and bright colours everywhere. IMO it does not suit the styling of say the iPX.

And you still only have the same icon grid so it all looks a bit "accessibility mode".

Android by comparison has polished up each version. ts issues are with default OEM skins which can be ugly, but now we gave system theme support, so this is no longer an issue for most.

I imagine this will now open a can of worms :p
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Your gripe is "styling", a highly opinionated thing?

'kay.

Bet all the ladies line up to see how slick the "styling" of your phone OS is.
 
mrk said:
Let's be real here, iOS still looks like a child's toy with bubbly UX and bright colours everywhere. IMO it does not suit the styling of say the iPX.

And you still only have the same icon grid so it all looks a bit "accessibility mode".

Android by comparison has polished up each version. ts issues are with default OEM skins which can be ugly, but now we gave system theme support, so this is no longer an issue for most.

I imagine this will now open a can of worms :p
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I find iOS an attractive OS. Google has definitely been polishing Android to get it up to iOS standards in terms of styling (it took Google how long to make icons the same size and shape?!).
 
Adaptive icons are a great thing, but I'm not a fan of the round icons in Android now, they just look odd, the transparent background icons were much nicer and pleasing as each app could have its own style as long as it was using the icon canvas to its fullest.

Again though, you can change the icons just like you can with system themes, so it's only an issue for those who refuse to install a launcher like Nova/Action Launcher etc.
 
mrk said:
Adaptive icons are a great thing, but I'm not a fan of the round icons in Android now, they just look odd, the transparent background icons were much nicer and pleasing as each app could have its own style as long as it was using the icon canvas to its fullest.

Again though, you can change the icons just like you can with system themes, so it's only an issue for those who refuse to install a launcher like Nova/Action Launcher etc.
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Yeah you’ve always been able to fix this issue in Android, you just have to waste your own time to do it.
 
mrochester said:
Yeah you’ve always been able to fix this issue in Android, you just have to waste your own time to do it.
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It's not really a waste of time though is it. If you want something the way you like it, tailored to you, then nobody else is going to be able to sort that for you. install a couple of apps, change a theme here and icon there, blammo.

I was actually expecting Apple to announce new iOS changes that allow you to change more than just a background still.
 
mrk said:
It's not really a waste of time though is it. If you want something the way you like it, tailored to you, then nobody else is going to be able to sort that for you. install a couple of apps, change a theme here and icon there, blammo.

I was actually expecting Apple to announce new iOS changes that allow you to change more than just a background still.
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Or just buy an iPhone which is how I want it out of the box.
 
I can't speak for everyone, but one of the things I like about iOS is the simplicity. I don't need to customise it and use widgets. The phones are a platform for the apps that deliver the real usage.
 
Personally, over the course of some years iOS has managed to reduce my list of software demands to a tiny few minor niggles. I don't feel the need to change the "theme" of the phone - the simplicity and "just works" continuity aspect is the reason behind my continued Apple purchases.

The Apple/Android circlejerk is completely tired - I couldn't believe the moaning/trolling in the keynote thread on Tuesday.
 
Raymond Lin said:
I found out yesterday but I think the Flume app is nicer looking.
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Flume app?

For me nothing beats the plugin on lightroom hehe its like uploading to flickr

Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLN5HSdU1kQ

Doesnt come with a fast charging cable/adapter

Tunney said:
Facebook will definitely load quicker on the iPhone X. React Native is such a stupidly wasteful way of writing mobile apps.

But that’s not the point of the extra grunt. The point is to enable new types of applications using augmented reality, machine learning and advanced image processing.
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Yea but those apps dont exist yet and thats why i said hardware is way ahead of software. You cant even max out the performance of an iphone 7 yet nevermind a X.
 
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jonneymendoza said:
According to various youtube videos that demo launching things like chrome and instagram and timing its lannch.

Plus my very own experience in using various android and iphone devices at work and as a daily drive. All perform the same in real world use.

Do you honestly believe this X phone will launch facebook twice as fast as it on a S8? thats real world use. Check it out and you will see it doesnt.

Hardware is ahead of its time for the past 2 years. Apps are very well optimised especially in android so they can run in low end hardware. Its the same with iOS. they dont make facebook work only for X do they.

facebok , instagram etc all work perfectly fast and reliable in 3-4 year old iphones because those apps like many other popular apps dont need more than 2gb ram/dual core CPU.
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How about no?


The iPhone is the oldest phone there with the least amount of RAM.

The essential is embarrassing in that test.

That video import and compiling is why the A11 matters.
 
The can of worms is open now. :p

Android forever annoys me, and the more you customise it, the less reliable it gets. I'm not saying it's bad, far from it, but IMO iOS is better for me at least, in terms of the way apps work, there's still no comparison there either (some are very similar admittedly). The nicest Samsung phones are further crippled by Samsung themselves on the software front. :( I definitely find iOS generally more fluid than Android on the equivalent devices.

Even If I wanted an S8+, something I considered, the amount of hassle not having iMessage for example would be annoying.

As I've said in the past, I get my phone out of my pocket, usually to check notifications and then open an app. At both of these things iOS is as good/better, and I think most people use their phone a similar way. Scrolling along homescreens checking little widgets isn't useful, the half-baked iOS widget implementation is even less useful most of the time.

But equally I can understand why people wouldn't want something as limited as iOS and can easily prefer Android, it's still excellent and there are a great selection of phones too.

All personal preference at the end of the day.
 
mrochester said:
Or just buy an iPhone which is how I want it out of the box.
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Which is fair, but that's not my point.

Personally I think the iPhone X is the best hardware that will be on the market this year. But if Apple want users like me to switch, people who revel in customisation options to make our phones "ours" rather than looking the same as the billions of others in the world, then they have to adopt a new stance in software just like they have with hardware this time round (bezel free display, no home button, standards compliant wireless charging...).
 
I was with Android from the HTC hero up till the Nexus 5 and other than the vastly better notification pane on Android I don’t really miss anything.

The Android fragmentation still annoys me. Even on the Pixel line of phones most of them didn’t get Oreo until like a week after they announced it was released.

Where’s iOS will be pushed to every supported device on the 19th.

Don’t even get me started on the likes of Samsung constantly being 6 months behind on major OS releases.
 
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