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iPhone X | OT | November 3
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You seem to have your priorities straight.
Trojita
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Does anyone have a good video of someone using the X exclusively with one hand? I want to know how unlocking and the gestures work (aka all the uses that the home button had) when only using one hand. All the videos I see is people using two hands, which I normally never do.
Because some people want to see their notifications.
All it takes is grabbing a phone and pointing it at someone's face, you don't even need to touch them. Watch some of the demo from Verge yesterday, the guy picks it up and nonchalantly points it at the employee's face and it unlocks instantly. That's just no bueno.
Didn't they jokingly say that if you had an evil twin you would need to use the passcode? The fact that they had to submit to the idea that passcodes become more important with no Touch ID by default is bad.
I have the 7, but also on the upgrade plan. So I could:
- keep the 7 and sell it next year. Don't know if I will be diligent enough to sell though
- trade for the 8 for no additional immediate cost, but get 1 more year of payments.
- trade for the X and increase my payment a month
I'll probably wait to see the X screen in person. Feature wise it's not really impressing though, and early impressions seem to confirm. The 8 has all the same core features beyond improved camera for face id and talking emojis which currently sounds underwhelming
So it's more a question of if dat screen is really all that.
Charles Brandon
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Isn't the only difference between 7 and 8 the faster chip?
Pankratous
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So standard incremental improvements.
Is having an OLED screen on a phone worth $300 more? Not to me.
Also has fast charging if you bother to get the dongles.
Yeah if I wasn't on the upgrade plan I probably wouldn't flat out purchase it, since the 7 still seems plenty fast. But since I can "trade" mine in a bit early it may be worth it for a few of these things. I just know I'm not really on point in maximizing gains by selling my old phones. I still have my old iPhone 6 in a drawer somewhere.
Everyone on the upgrade plan thinking about this right now haha.
I find it amusing how we rolled back from MSN emoticons to slowly going down (and now exceeding I guess) that path again.
it could be less analytical than that. Maybe the move to an 'all screen' has an impact on you like when they moved to laminated displays. 'just' a bit closer to the surface but it feels a lot different in use.
There is something pretty nice about using the Galaxy S8, just because of the amount of screen in front of you - makes it more about the content maybe? Difficult to elaborate.
it's not the resolution.. however it is unique points. You can't do a 100% fingerprint comparison for security because of all of the factors.. cleanliness of the scanner, orientation and grip of the print, placement of the print, etc AND hit a sub-500ms processing time. So they use unique reference points on the print, compute them mathematically and compare that to the value stored in the secure enclave. as long as it is with an acceptable variance, it passes.
So take that same thing and apply it to a very similar print or variably a "lightning in a bottle" of conditions that creates an acceptable variance on a different print.. to which apple calculates is a 1:50,000 chance. I would definitely call 1:50,000 secure. Creating a laytex facsimile of your print is more likely than hitting someone with a mathematically compatible print/circumstance.
So presumably because of the dot/depth scanner.. iris recognition, etc.. FaceID is able to create more unique points (hence twins can't fake it out) and because of the ML logic built into the CPU core, can still calculate those greater unique points close to as fast as TouchID.
It really is amazing. I get people have a hard time with change... and previous attempts at facial recognition are ridiculously easy to fool.. But Apple's hardware here is impressive as hell.. provided accuracy and speed are on point, people are going to flip their shit. And the best part is accuracy is GUARANTEED to improve because of the ML portion. So what's now "we'll see" will likely in 6 months be "I could never see going back"
The big fail is that apple should be showcasing the convenience not the "coolness". Don't hold it up to your face 6 times to show it off.. Pay with something in apple pay and show how effortless it is (granted them having shown it for a whopping 24 hours so far... patience and all of that)
Only if they decide to use FaceID to unlock the phone.
Of course they will.
uncleniccius
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If this works as well as is suggested and all it takes is a glance at the screen I don't see the issue.
Using your phone when driving is so fucking stupid but it is something that has to be considered. Amazing it isn't federal law that it is illegal in the US.
But.. if they're using their phone in the car they're going to inevitably glance at it anyways, if just to guide their hand to unlock it or interact with it as they normally would?
TimeEffect
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Animoji is huge for the teenage market
Cant wait for the movie.
Cant wait for the movie.
Hopefully it deters people from using their phones while driving. I'm interested to see how it works with a phone holder though. Will it continuously unlock as you randomly glance at it while driving?
Yeah, this is what I was referring to by "depends what you mean about security" - same way a 30-digit random password is nominally more secure, but if that forces people to put them on post-its it's definitely not
As someone who does actually have an "evil" twin in the family that line got a sad laugh from me
And people who aren't rich and not very good at financial decisions. Tacking another year to their lease contract and not actually owning a phone.
Not rich, just people with terrible priorities.
I have the money, and it really isnt a problem to spend 1k plus for me. This phone just doesn't have the value of a 1K plus phone.
nhlducks35
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Regardless of whether you use touchid or faceid you will look at your phone at some point
Well my point is that these people will now look at their phone even more. Imagine idiots on the road looking at their phones for extended periods of time when FaceID fails to unlock quickly.
Why do people keep saying this?
I've seen numerous videos/images where two pillarboxes appear (effectively adding bezels, like every other phone). Further, even with the pillarboxes the screen size is effectively the same size as the 7/8+, yet with a higher pixel density and smaller hardware form factor.
Idiots will be idiots regardless of which phone they use and how they use it.
Plus it is OLED so those parts of the screen are effectively turned off completely.
I think it looks much better on the iPhone 6/7/8 where the video fully fills the screen. Especially so on the Plus models at 1920x1080.
You can always choose to not maximize the video, then it should be letterboxed.
The screen on the iPhone X is wider than a regular 16:9 screen, so full screen youtube content shouldn't be cut off, but rather be pillar boxed.
Like, right now, if you were to watch a video that is cinematic wide screen on your phone, there's letterboxed 16:9 and 'fill-screen', which already cuts off the sides of your video.
So, in 'fill-screen' mode, the iPhone still cuts off some of the image, but way less than the phones before it, while in regular viewing mode you'll have a (presumably less) letterboxed video.
I believe this to be the situation on the iPhone 6 with cinematic ratio video content:
full screen
fill screen
and on the iPhone X it will be, i presume:
full screen (smaller black bars compared to the iPhone 6), pillar AND letterboxed (which should look fine due to OLED's deeper blacks)
fill screen (less of the image cut-off on the sides)
anything else would be rather absurd. So i'm guessing that's what we're getting. Less of a cut-off (yet with a weird, non-straight cut-off) when using fill screen. Less black bars when using full screen.
Rktk
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We can only hope when they careen off that bridge they don't take anyone with them.
That's why it would be an option, not mandatory?
Yes and yes.
"Pre-order yours from 8:01 am on 27.10."
Erebus
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How is the screen better? It's exactly the same sans TrueTone.
Lights and Waves
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Yeah, looks like I'll be upgrading my 6s to an 8+. Hoping to enroll in that new iPhone upgrade program, but I have to do it at an Apple store.
I'm excited but nervous about the size of the 8+. Think I might need one of those screen protectors that blocks out people trying to look at your screeen.
I'm excited but nervous about the size of the 8+. Think I might need one of those screen protectors that blocks out people trying to look at your screeen.
It literally fills the exact same proportion of the phone, and has a higher ppi.
Lol at people judging others for how they want to spend their money. For most people your phone is one of, if not the most important thing in your pocket.
And why are people assuming that the general population is going to be spending $1000 outright on this, when there's financing available through the carriers and through Apple?
And why are people assuming that the general population is going to be spending $1000 outright on this, when there's financing available through the carriers and through Apple?
Also yeah can someone break down what the actual differences are in 7+ vs 8+ camera?
And what is true tone? Just marketing speak for calibration?
I had a 7+ and generally liked it except for running out of space with 32gb, and I may have had a faulty fp scanner. The 8+ still has a scanner right?
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