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The saving grace about the 5S is that it has a 64bit processor, so it can at least run the latest iOS. If you use your phone primarily for phone calls, texting, checking email, and the occasional web surfing, then that phone should be fine as long as it’s stable. A lot of people want to stick to their 5 or 5S because of its size. It does fit in your pocket much better than a “small” 6. If size is an issue, then perhaps an iPhone SE would be a decent upgrade from the 5S. It has the same specs as the 6S, but the size of the iPhone 5/5S. |
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The SE is brilliant. When Apple markets an SE-sized X, I'll be the first person in line.
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New I Phone Post
I'm not surprised there was nothing posted.
You have to consider the demographic on here. We're still strongly divided over factory-installed pickups or even pickups in acoustic guitars. "I don't need no new-fangled phone with all that stuff that I don't understand."
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I'm not buying another iPhone until they bring back the headphone jack.
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Plus, if you put an iPhone X in a cheap bag people will just assume it's counterfeit - you wouldn't carry that Custom Shop Strat in a crappy gig bag would you? |
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The included adaptor solves it and others are available. I'm not aware of complaints worth taking whether that's in my family or the countless purchases between the company or BYOD users. We're more than a year into it too. I'm in no rush to get the phone via one still i the upgrade program and one less than a year old but I am watching app compatibility. If one of my kids' phones died it's quite likely I'd go for the X.
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Agree. I'll be right behind you.
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So far the hardest thing to adjust right now. Like when at work I like to put on my ear buds and get lost in my music. I forgot to bring the adaptor today. Quote:
An all-screen SE iPhone would look freakishly long IMO. I think the perfect size would be an all-screen 6/7/8 sized iPhone. I highly doubt Apple would make a smaller X simply because the market is just too small. People are used to big phones now, and everyone who go with a bigger phone, will never go back down to a smaller one. I bet the next X style iPhone will be 8 plus sized. Quote:
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So I figure why not give a review after two days with this phone. Although there’s a lot of features I’m still getting used to, I think I have the hang of it.
Let’s start with the important stuff first; the looks! Well it looks just like any other smartphone on the market. A black square with whatever color the back casing might be. In my case, I have the silver one. I welcome the return of the glass back, and without the regulatory writing (you know all that “do not throw in the landfill”, CE and all that small print), it looks much cleaner with just the familiar bitten Apple logo that brings either happiness or extreme hate depending on who you are. With the screen on, you get a nice stock beach picture that shows off the beautiful OLED screen. Overall feel: The phone feels good when you hold it. It has this sturdy feel mostly because of its stainless steel frame, but at the same time it feels extremely slippery and fragile. I had to get a case right away, the phone is like 95% glass! If you’re used to smaller phones, like a non plus iPhone, then this doesn’t feel that much bigger. If you come from something like a iPhone 5 or SE, then this will probably feel like a tablet, but I bet you’ll forget about it once you get treated to the much bigger screen. I got used to the extra bulk on my hands almost right away. The buttons feel like previous iPhones sans the home button, nothing new here. Overall phone user interface: Ok so the biggest change here besides the nearly bezel-less OLED screen, is the lack of a home button with fingerprint scanner. It truly changes most of the experience and although it’s a bit quirky at first, (I kept trying to hit a phantom home button for most of my first day) it does become second nature. To unlock the phone, it recognizes your face, and it’s pretty neat! I could be wearing a hat and shades, and it still recognizes my face. That’s pretty cool because all you have to do is look at the phone. Since this feature replaces the fingerprint scanner, that means your face is its security measure when it comes to using Apple Pay, or just buying from the App Store. Other user interface changes is now you swipe up to open your phone, and the control center comes from swiping the top right corner down. Again tricky at first, but very seamless once you get used to it. Camera: The camera takes beautiful pictures, and I’m very happy that Apple fitted the dual cameras in a landscape orientation instead of a portrait orientation like the iPhone 7 and 8 plus. This camera takes very nice pictures at 12MP, and it shoots 4K video at 60fps, and all-mo at 1080p 240fps. If you use those settings, you’ll eat up 400MB of storage for each minute! I have yet to see exactly what this camera is capable of. Battery life: If there’s a disappointment, then it’s definitely its battery life. Apple hyped this to be the best battery life of any iPhone. They even went through the trouble of installing a two-cell battery that has more amperage than a 8 plus battery. The end result is that battery life isn’t any better than other iPhones. I guess all that extra juice was needed for the OLED screen. Again, it’s not that the battery life is bad, it’s just not exactly as advertised. Overall, I’m very pleased with this phone, even if it set me back over $1000. The display is just beautiful, the interface is seamless, and it’s fast, very fast! A great upgrade from a 6S! Here’s some pics: one is side by side with a 6S, and the rest some sushi, and a random rainbow from the car. |
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Wife and I are 7 users. Staying with these for a while. If I have an extra k burning a hole in my pocket (which I don’t), I would prefer dropping it on gear right now. The iPhone X intrigues me but not at that price. I’ll eventually get there with one but prefer to wait till the newness wears off and the price drops.
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I'm convinced that the size of the SE is no accident. It fits perfectly in the pocket of a pair of jeans, and you can sit down without it jamming into your hip bone. Prior to buying in iPhone, I conducted a small market sample of how people carried their phones. Jeans-wearing people with 6/7/8-sized phones tended to take them out of their pocket to sit down. That's a non-starter for me. I'm fine with them making the X(SE) a little wider to satisfy the aspect ratio problem, but they can't make it longer. Furthermore, if the letters of the product are rearranged a little bit, they'll have a phone that markets itself.
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The adult child has received the X but I really like my 6S Plus. I’ll keep,it until the software updates slow it down too much. I just ordered my mom her first non-flip phone for an early Christmas present so she can at least get an Uber or Lyft in her 80’s.
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Thanks for pointing that out. Steve Jobs understood fundamental product utility better than just about everyone else on earth. I have been an Apple product user for 35 years and a Mac advocate for 25. But, judging by their recent product performance, the company has lost its way since Steve died. On one hand, I think my recently purchased SE is brilliant. I love it's recent description as the "cockroach" of cell phones, something that has evolved into utilitarian perfection in spite of itself. On the other hand, I seem to spend half my life running back to the Apple store to solve a variety of inter-platform compatibility issues. One of the company's flagship products, iTunes, for example, has devolved into something so bewilderingly dysfunctional that it seems to have been produced by Microsoft.
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You're probably confusing one's own configuration with how dysfunctional iTunes is and not aware how different Microsoft's been for a good while now. I really do like the Apple platform but the as religion, tribe or fan boy ways that happen with it and other platforms don't work here. The market winners or top tier stuff is all good. Closer to topic, I am still watching the app development for the X models. Nothing's wrong with my 10-11 month old 7 Plus but an X might be attractive if a phone in the family dies. To some extent I keep finding the Apple Watch and AirPods make the actual phone less important for me.
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