Apple iPhone X- Buy or wait

[BayMoWe335]

Originally Posted by rhk118

OK, so I need to upgrade my iPhone...how is faceID working for my fellow ninjas out there?

Works perfectly for me...no clue why people have any problems.

[Obioban]

I read this about FaceID in an iPhone X article, and it rang 100% true to me after using the phone for a couple months:

One of the things Apple created to enable this has gotten a lot of attention: Face ID. But a few of the other things they’ve done to enable this have gone largely under the radar. Tapping anywhere on the display to wake it is so natural, it makes me wonder how we did without it for so long. (This is another frustration I have trying to use an iPad now — I tap the screen expecting it to wake up. It seems silly that I need to press a button.) The iPhone X display does not, alas, offer the ProMotion feature introduced with the latest iPad Pros, which allows for dynamic screen refresh rates of up to 120 Hz. But it does track touch input at 120 Hz, double the rate of all other iPhones. The result of this is that the animations for gestures track your finger better. It feels less like an animation that is playing in response to your touch and more like your finger is actually manipulating and moving things on screen as though they are real objects. Of the numerous new technologies embedded in the iPhone X, the 120 Hz refresh rate for touch tracking is almost certainly the least important, but it really does contribute to making gestures feel like the one true way to interact with the system.

Tapping the display to wake the device, seeing a list of truncated notifications on the lock screen, and then seeing those notifications expand to preview their content once you’re recognized by Face ID — this just makes the iPhone X feel alive in a way that no other device does. You tap it to get its attention, and it recognizes that you are you.

The lock screen is far more useful now: you can just tap any notification to jump to it. With Touch ID, after you tap a particular notification in the middle of the display, you then must move your finger down to the home button to authenticate. I always found that annoying. Now that I’m used to the iPhone X, I find it to be intolerable.

Face ID is not a win versus Touch ID in every single way. There are trade-offs, primarily scenarios where Face ID fails. (It does seem to work with most sunglasses, for example, but not with Ray Bans, which, alas, happen to be my preferred brand.)

Consider the aforementioned process of opening a notification from the lock screen. Touch ID adds an extra step, every time, even when it works perfectly. Face ID is not perfect — it’s true that I wind up either authenticating a second time or resorting to entering my PIN more often than with Touch ID — but it only adds these extra steps when it fails for some reason. When it works perfectly, which for me is the vast majority of the time, the effect is sublime. It really does feel like my iPhone has no passcode protecting it. That was never true for Touch ID. Touch ID feels like a better way to unlock your device. Face ID feels like your device isn’t even locked.

This was the way the iPhone was meant to be used. When Steve Jobs demoed the original iPhone on stage at Macworld Expo in January 2007, it was just “slide to unlock”. There was no PIN. One of the ways the world has changed in the last decade is that we’re no longer naive about device security. I’m pretty sure I used my iPhones with no PIN code for a few years. Slide to unlock was fun. Entering a PIN is no fun.

Thanks to Face ID, no-PIN “slide to unlock” is back. This, to me, epitomizes the iPhone X. In ways small and large, it changes fundamental aspects of using an iPhone. But it does so in ways that are faithful to the spirit of the original iPhone.

[bimmer456]

They should have Touch ID by putting the touch sensor on the back and then work on integrating the touch sensor in the screen so you can touch anywhere to authenticate.

[Obioban]

Originally Posted by bimmer456

They should have Touch ID by putting the touch sensor on the back and then work on integrating the touch sensor in the screen so you can touch anywhere to authenticate.

I have exactly 0 desire to go back to touchID now that I've had FaceID.

[ASAP]

Originally Posted by bimmer456

They should have Touch ID by putting the touch sensor on the back and then work on integrating the touch sensor in the screen so you can touch anywhere to authenticate.

This would be an absolutely optimal scenario that as of right now, no one can get right.... I think Face iD is still the worst feature of the phone... no matter how anyone spins it, its far from perfect... you have to have the phone in front of you to open it, looking at it from the side etc etc... will not work. This is a serious fault imho.

[ASAP]

Originally Posted by Obioban

I have exactly 0 desire to go back to touchID now that I've had FaceID.

I don't think anyone wants touch id or a button at all... a full touch to unlock screen would be incredible though.

[Red Bread]

Originally Posted by ASAP

This would be an absolutely optimal scenario that as of right now, no one can get right.... I think Face iD is still the worst feature of the phone... no matter how anyone spins it, its far from perfect... you have to have the phone in front of you to open it, looking at it from the side etc etc... will not work. This is a serious fault imho.

Can you give me a scenario where you'd want to open your phone but not be looking at it? Upskirts are the only thing I'm coming up with.

[ASAP]

Originally Posted by Red Bread

Can you give me a scenario where you'd want to open your phone but not be looking at it? Upskirts are the only thing I'm coming up with.

Virtually every daily scenario... laying down in bed, the phone laying on a desk... perhaps even when driving (bad example) but you get it...

[dreamingat30fps]

Originally Posted by ASAP

Virtually every daily scenario... laying down in bed, the phone laying on a desk... perhaps even when driving (bad example) but you get it...

Yup I do it all the time

[dreamingat30fps]

Originally Posted by bimmer456

They should have Touch ID by putting the touch sensor on the back and then work on integrating the touch sensor in the screen so you can touch anywhere to authenticate.

This is what I thought they were working towards when they made the haptic home button.

[uniqueMR]

iPhone X rocks. One of the best phones on market.
User of X since Nov 3rd. No Complaints. No issues.

[Emjaydc]

Originally Posted by rhk118

OK, so I need to upgrade my iPhone...how is faceID working for my fellow ninjas out there?

FaceID works well most of the time for me. Sometimes it takes me a couple of tries. Especially when I just wake up. Might have to re-do the setup.

[jdr78569]

Debating between 64GB and 256? I have a 64GB iPhone 6 and not even close to half. any reason why I should go with a 256?

[DSB335d]

Originally Posted by jdr78569

Debating between 64GB and 256? I have a 64GB iPhone 6 and not even close to half. any reason why I should go with a 256?

Easier to sell it when you're ready to buy your next phone

[jdr78569]

Originally Posted by DSB335d

Easier to sell it when you're ready to buy your next phone

I meant as in what size iPhone X to go with, would there be a reason to get the 256GB iPhone x if my current iPhone 6 isn't near the 64GB of memory.

[bimmer456]

Originally Posted by jdr78569

I meant as in what size iPhone X to go with, would there be a reason to get the 256GB iPhone x if my current iPhone 6 isn't near the 64GB of memory.

Yes the 256 GB model is also faster. The memory has faster read and write speeds.

[jdr78569]

Originally Posted by bimmer456

Yes the 256 GB model is also faster. The memory has faster read and write speeds.

Haven't heard that one, have links or numbers?

[bimmer456]

Originally Posted by jdr78569

Haven't heard that one, have links or numbers?

Should have numbers there as well. The difference may not be much in actual usage depends on what you're doing and what apps you use.

[jdr78569]

Originally Posted by bimmer456

Should have numbers there as well. The difference may not be much in actual usage depends on what you're doing and what apps you use.

Wow read is almost or about doubled. write isn't crazy bad but most of the time we read. Thanks! now I might get the 256, ive read nothing but good things about it on here. Other than the slight face recognition part.

[Obioban]

Originally Posted by jdr78569

Debating between 64GB and 256? I have a 64GB iPhone 6 and not even close to half. any reason why I should go with a 256?

I'd base it on how much 4k 60fps you plan to shoot. That stuff takes a TON of space, very fast.

[jdr78569]

Originally Posted by Obioban

I'd base it on how much 4k 60fps you plan to shoot. That stuff takes a TON of space, very fast.

lol yeah cant say I have done so or plan too.

[Obioban]

Originally Posted by bimmer456

Should have numbers there as well. The difference may not be much in actual usage depends on what you're doing and what apps you use.

As someone with the faster version (256gb), I doubt this difference will ever be even slightly a hint of noticable outside of running benchmarks.