Official iPhone X Thread - Who wants to spend $1150 for animated emojis?

konami wrote:

It is better - nicer screen and camera (important for me; I want to be able to take lots of nice pictures of my kids).

I use my phone all the time. I upgrade every year because it's nice to have the best version of anything I use that much. I can afford it. Why wouldn't I go for it?

^^^^ The main reason to pay for an expensive phone is for the camera if you have kids. Otherwise a $200 android can do everything .

I'm an Apple fan but honestly the new phones don't interest me & $1,000 for a smart phone is insane. Smart phones have peaked & the changes we see with new phones are pretty small. Apple even came out & said this themselves before the 7 was released to prep consumers to not get too excited. Apple said something like to only expect major changes every 3 years rather than every year.

Personally, I have a 6s plus & I'm very content with it. Looking below at a comparison between the 7, 8 & X on paper & the 7 looks like the best deal by far. When I bought my 6s the 7 was already out. None of the new features of 7 or now the 8 or the x really scream "must have" to me like features did on older iPhone releases. Breaking it down --

dual speakers: I actually use my phone a fair amount at work to listen to music. I've never once wished I had better sound. I'd simply buy a speaker if I did.

No headphone jack: lame. connecting to bluetooth is a pain & takes a long time. Cables never fail & have to be paired again.

wireless charging: I really have no problem with plugging a cable in to charge my phone. I also want to see how good of a job Apple can do. I've heard wireless charging is slow & the charging pads create a lot of heat that's wasted.

Faster: eh, I actually didn't notice much of an improvement going from a 5s to a 6s & that was supposedly a big jump in processor speed & RAM. How fast do we really need our phones? It's wifi speeds that slow me up the most.

Better display: see above. My 5s felt like it had an amazing display. How bright & clear do we need our display?

Edge to edge display: I'm used to the plus size & the bezel so not a big deal.

battery: all phone batteries go to crap after a year or so, so an extra hour doesn't do much for me.

Camera: this seems to be the biggest focus of Apple recently. I don't take a lot of pics. Again, I thought the 5s took great pics. How much better do we need a camera. I doubt the avg person can tell a difference in pics between a 6s, 7, 8, x. Better to learn how to take pictures on an iPhone than spend $1,000 for a new phone. Ever see the movie Tangerine? Shot entirely with an iPhone 5s. Incredible work that I bet most iPhone X users won't be able to take half as good video quality as.

face ID: I'm so used to placing my thumb on the home button when I pull it out of my pocket & then the screen is unlocked & ready by the time I can view it. With face ID I'd have bring it closer to my face & wait. Plus in the keynote today, face ID failed. He also brought the phone real close to his face which looked like a pain.

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https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-iphone-x-vs-8-plus-7/?ftag=COS-05-10-aaa0a&linkId=42140354

rojo wrote:

konami wrote:

It is better - nicer screen and camera (important for me; I want to be able to take lots of nice pictures of my kids).

I use my phone all the time. I upgrade every year because it's nice to have the best version of anything I use that much. I can afford it. Why wouldn't I go for it?

^^^^ The main reason to pay for an expensive phone is for the camera if you have kids. Otherwise a $200 android can do everything .

That and facetime. Yes I know you can do video chat on any device but so many grandmas and pas have an iphoneit's just easier for them to hit the facetime button than download an app.

baaaaaa wrote:

I found this gif showing people outside the "apple keynote" today:

https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/4336fb2e1c4cbf4574645dc37293772527d00ff545c5a8156b6176d28182f78c.gif

😀😃😄😁😆😅😂🤣---that's for Rojo--🙃

this is true and one reason 'distracted driving' should be considered the same as DUI, and taught, criminalized and prosecuted as such.

Of course booze being legal and in many-- most?-- places still weed is criminal is also outlandish but at least it's not killing people, and injuring, and endangering many others.

It's not so much that YOU need a better camera. Google, Apple, etc. need better imaging so they can fully take advantage of things like Oculus Rift. Try putting an otherwise great photo about 1" from your eye and you'll see advancement is needed. If the cameras are not pushed forward we'll never be able to live in a virtual reality and how scary is that prospect.

As for Rojo saying animated emojis should only be allowed for pre-teens, you're turning in a dinosaur already. Admittedly, so am I.

All I gotta say is I would pay $1,000 to have the headphone jack back.

literally can't count the amount of times I've wanted to throw my phone at the wall because I forgot that damn adapter and can't plug in headphones for a phone call or gym workout.

I would spend $1000 to have a phone that's more or less the size of the iPhone 6 (which I have right now), but with a larger screen than the 6 Plus, and has a better camera.

Alas, the price for the X here is about $1400, so I'll probably end up with an 8 instead, which is actually $1000 here. The Plus versions are just way too big for my hands and pockets, but man, do I want the larger screen and better camera.

If I'm going to pay $1000+ for a damn phone/camera/mini tablet, it better be to make me a sandwich, that's all I know.

rojo wrote:

konami wrote:

It is better - nicer screen and camera (important for me; I want to be able to take lots of nice pictures of my kids).

I use my phone all the time. I upgrade every year because it's nice to have the best version of anything I use that much. I can afford it. Why wouldn't I go for it?

^^^^ The main reason to pay for an expensive phone is for the camera if you have kids. Otherwise a $200 android can do everything .

yep, this is exactly the conundrum I'm in. Currently using a 2+ year old samsung galaxy s6, which is on its last legs a bit but does have a great camera. For literally everything else I use it for, I know there's a whole swathe of cheap(ish) android phones these days that would do these things just as well. But I really don't want a downgrade on the camera (mainly for the kids I admit), which I think I'd get if I went that route.

After hemming and hawing I've opted not to upgrade as my iPhone 7 works just fine and I see no discernible improvement other than face ID, which I don't need. The 8, especially, is exactly the same phone bar a few peripheral spec tweaks.

The only product I'm anticipating from Apple is the HomePod coming out later this year. This could legitimately impact my life.

https://www.apple.com/homepod/

El Keniano wrote:

The only product I'm anticipating from Apple is the HomePod coming out later this year. This could legitimately impact my life.

HomePod isn't out yet? Wasn't it announced back in May?

fan boy #2 wrote:

El Keniano wrote:

The only product I'm anticipating from Apple is the HomePod coming out later this year. This could legitimately impact my life.

HomePod isn't out yet? Wasn't it announced back in May?

December 2017.

typo wrote:

Agree with this. All of the technology that this new iPhone is using has been used by their competitors for the past year. I thought it was hilarious when the presenter was talking about the OLED screen as if it was some brand new technology that Apple invented, when the Google Pixel and Samsung S8 already have it. Of course, people clapped and cheered like crazy.

OLED? There has been problems with OLED for a few years, hence why Apple had not yet integrated OLED into their phones. It had problems in direct light and with images burning into the screen. Now Apple has addressed and fixed those problems, so they will begin to use OLED in the X.

The presenter did not, "talk about the OLED screen as if it was some brand new technology that Apple invented." He even mentioned previous problems with OLED screens other smartphones were using.

Apple is not always the first to adapt new technology; they do it when they're confident it will work well and efficiently.

rojo wrote:

PPS. I added, " Who wants to spend $1150 for animated emojis?" to the title just to anger the iphone fanboys and girls.

They are emojis now, but the point is they will be photorealistic holographic avatars by the time we get to the AR glasses that this phone is looking forward to in 2 or 3 years. Realtime 3D face tracking is quite something.

And imagine the possibilities for xxx...

UUUUUUUlilboi wrote:

Apple is not always the first to adapt new technology; they do it when they're confident it will work well and efficiently.

It's also a good way to let the market see how things work out while Apple doesn't spend the money in putting things to market that suck bigtime and fail. Let Microsoft make Zunes, etc.

rojo wrote:

^^^^ The main reason to pay for an expensive phone is for the camera if you have kids. Otherwise a $200 android can do everything .

I've thought of another reason to get the X. It's basically gives you the screen size of the plus but is almost the same size as the regular iphone.

I like the large screen size of my plus but hate its size. When I run, I often take my wife's old regular iphone as it fits in my tracksmith shorts as they have a special pocket for a regular iphone. I wonder if the X will fit in it. Of course, the only reason I take a phone with me is so I can stream pandora or the radio so maybe I should just get one of these watches.

rojo wrote:

Iwatch? That's what you guys want to talk about. Come on now.

Don't we all want to talk about how we can now spend $1150 on a phone so we can send animated emojis?

-Rojo

PS. Animated emojis should be outlawed if one of the recipients isn't under the age of 13.

PPS. I added, " Who wants to spend $1150 for animated emojis?" to the title just to anger the iphone fanboys and girls.

Says the man living under a rock.....try surveying people age 20-30 asking who uses emoji's, it's a shockingly huge % of people.

That said it's ridiculous to spend that much for animated emoji's, but that's not why people will pay it. It's because their shit works. People like to say they copy Samsung.....truth is Samsung copies them, they just try and launch things first before they have got it working well. Like the galaxy gear.....most returned "smart item" ever....well maybe 2nd after their exploding phones.....They knew for years Apple was launching a watch and tried to beat it....with crap.

IF the iPhone X becomes a computer/phone that I can carry around, and have auto-sense my KMM at various locations, I'd consider it as long as it's wrapped in the burliest waterproof case available.

Otherwise, I'll suffer with Android:

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