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
pioneer2000 said:
What are you talking about?! Face ID is the new standard now, who wants to have to touch their phone (which often doesn’t work properly anyway) when you can just pick it up and it’s unlocked, in a faster and more secure way.
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Works every time without fail for me. And I work with greasy machines all day :P I pick mine up, and voila it unlocks.
 
I originally said I'd like one but they're too expensive, now I really don't want to lose the home button and would rather stick with the 7+, the X doesn't offer anything new that's worth having.

The extra screen will be useless until apps are set up to use it and the face unlock sounds like a pita.
 
Lakeland said:
The extra screen will be useless until apps are set up to use it
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Modern iOS apps are resolution independent. Universal apps will use any extra space without any code changes and the iPhone X uses the image assets as the current Plus models.
 
Tunney said:
Modern iOS apps are resolution independent. Universal apps will use any extra space without any code changes and the iPhone X uses the image assets as the current Plus models.
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I was under the impression that only some apps are utilising the extra space? And if the app isn't optimised it just shows black in the upper section around the sensors?
 
Lakeland said:
I was under the impression that only some apps are utilising the extra space? And if the app isn't optimised it just shows black in the upper section around the sensors?
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If app developers don't submit an update to their app between now and November, the app will appear letterboxed. Any app that receives an update will use the extra space.

We fixed our app to work with the iPhone X in two days. The resolution was supported without any code changes. The actual effort went into ensuring that our content didn't get hidden behind the sensor bump and rounded corners.
 
pioneer2000 said:
What are you talking about?! Face ID is the new standard now, who wants to have to touch their phone (which often doesn’t work properly anyway) when you can just pick it up and it’s unlocked, in a faster and more secure way.
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You are kidding right?
You have to hold the phone up, touching it.
You have to swipe up, touching it, for the face id to actually unlock.
Rather than thumb press a region on the phone.

Much more complex, wow, lets go to the backup... which seemlessly unlocked the image on the big screen without the camera switching to a new phone.
 
Does the eight do fast charge and wireless charge?

Apple with their extorsionate pricing on the X may end up selling lots more units of the 8, as people plump for what they feel is the budget version. Might work quite well.
All talk has been of the X, people buying the 8 might feel like they are getting the same 'exoerience' for cheaper.
 
Hikari Kisugi said:
You are kidding right?
You have to hold the phone up, touching it.
You have to swipe up, touching it, for the face id to actually unlock.
Rather than thumb press a region on the phone.

Much more complex, wow, lets go to the backup... which seemlessly unlocked the image on the big screen without the camera switching to a new phone.
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It’s so cringeworthy that you’ve posted that. Funny that you are so terrified of any change, with a clear predetermined bias against Apple (because you think that’s clever?) that you refuse to accept something that’s clearly better than the previous solution (being more secure, faster, more consistent in function).

As has been reported (and you will have seen and oddly chosen to ignore), there was not any failure in FaceID during the keynote, so trying to find fault where there was none just looks a bit sad.

If you aren’t buying one I’m not sure why you are wasting your time posting here as well...? I don’t think I’ve ever even gone into an android thread because I wouldn’t buy one... yet we get all manner of folk in the Apple threads talking absolute unsubstantiated nonsense. Hmmm.
 
Interview: Apple’s Craig Federighi answers some burning questions about Face ID

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Daring fireball article on the iPhone X and other announcements

Thoughts and Observations on the Products Announced at This Week’s iPhone X Introductory Event


FACE ID AS THE REPLACEMENT FOR TOUCH ID
Apple made this decision well over a year ago. Perhaps the fundamental goal of iPhone X was to get as close as they could to an edge-to-edge display. No chin whatsoever. There were, of course, early attempts to embed a Touch ID sensor under the display as a Plan B. But Apple became convinced that Face ID was the way to go over a year ago. I heard this yesterday from multiple people at Apple, including engineers who’ve been working on the iPhone X project for a very long time. They stopped pursuing Touch ID under the display not because they couldn’t do it, but because they decided they didn’t need it. I do believe it’s true that they never got Touch ID working, but that’s because they abandoned it in favor of Face ID early.

I don’t know why recent supply chain rumors suggest Apple was scrambling to get Touch ID working on iPhone X as late as this summer, and no one at Apple seems to know either. Disinformation campaign from competitors?

There is clearly skepticism out there about Face ID. Some people think Face ID is going to suck, and a lot of people are flat-out assuming that they’re going to miss Touch ID. We saw the same thing with Touch ID when it was announced, and the skeptics were very wrong. I haven’t used it personally, but I am pretty sure already that the skeptics are going to be wrong about Face ID too. This piece at Ars Technica by Ron Amadeo is going to age poorly, I suspect.

The only time I’ve spent playing with an iPhone X was about 10-15 minutes in the hands-on area after the event, and I did not get a chance to try Face ID. But I spent time — both officially, as a member of the media, and unofficially, as a friend — with several Apple employees who are already carrying an iPhone X as their daily-use phone, and from what I observed and from what they told me — and again, several of these employees are engineers, not PR or product marketing folks — it just works. You don’t have to think about it. According to them, you get used to not thinking about it very quickly, and when you go back to a Touch ID device, it feels broken that you have to touch the button to unlock the device.

One of the places where I saw it working — instantly and effortlessly — was a really dark room. It just works.
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https://daringfireball.net/2017/09/iphone_x_event_thoughts_and_observations
 
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pioneer2000 said:
It’s so cringeworthy that you’ve posted that. Funny that you are so terrified of any change, with a clear predetermined bias against Apple (because you think that’s clever?) that you refuse to accept something that’s clearly better than the previous solution (being more secure, faster, more consistent in function).

As has been reported (and you will have seen and oddly chosen to ignore), there was not any failure in FaceID during the keynote, so trying to find fault where there was none just looks a bit sad.

If you aren’t buying one I’m not sure why you are wasting your time posting here as well...? I don’t think I’ve ever even gone into an android thread because I wouldn’t buy one... yet we get all manner of folk in the Apple threads talking absolute unsubstantiated nonsense. Hmmm.
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his actually made some valid points against faceID and instead of commenting on each cons he listed, you attack him
 
Trying overcome how this face is work.

So

Pull it out of pocket then look
At screen that it?

Or pull out of pocket. Press screen, swipe up then look at screen??
 
Rooky007 said:
Trying overcome how this face is work.

So

Pull it out of pocket then look
At screen that it?

Or pull out of pocket. Press screen, swipe up then look at screen??
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If raise to wake is left on
Pull out pocket and look at screen and it should be unlocked.

To enter the home screen you'll have to swipe up, I guess that was done for those who just want to glance at their notifications instead of going straight to the lock screen.

But someone posted a tip, soon as you take it out your pocket swipe up it should be unlocked instead of waiting for the padlock to show unlocked then swipe.

Should make it more seamless
 
I wasn’t going get one the more the days goes on and the more I look at it am quite tempted.

Seen the 8 is a bit of a flop can still easily order one to collect on the day at many stores
 
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