I upgraded at Christmas. I'm sure that they put a lot of effort into it. But now my phone no longer displays battery percentage, and I keep finding myself noticing the missing chunk. Even after a month I notice it.
Squeezing the last square inch is emphatically not worth it. Not even a little bit.
I was very skeptical about the notches. But after a month of use, I find that I don't notice the missing space at all.
Most often, it really does feel like the entire screen is being used. It's almost an optical illusion.
My two minor issues with the X are: 1) the glass back makes it very slippery! (It slides off the arm rests on my couch no matter how well I place it.) 2) The protruding camera on the back is very noticable. I wish Apple would make a flat-backed phone again. When I set my phone on a flat surface, it shouldn't wobble.
Overall I was very skeptical of the X for a lot of reasons... but it's by far the best phone I've ever used. (And it better be at this price!)
I used to be a no case person, but I got one for the X because I had the same issues you did.
I've been using the Apple leather cases for my last two phones (including the X). They aren't as grippy as the silicone cases, and they cost more, but I find they feel better in the hand and don't have the "stuck to my pocket" problem.
I used to be a "no case" person as well. I dropped my 3GS a half dozen times and it just got dinged up corners. Same with a Lumia after that. I dropped my Nexus 6 about 5 inches and the screen shattered. Started using cases after that.
Put them on and you'll see how the back suddenly becomes perfectly flat and non slippery. The notch helps in securing the case. The changing shape of the notch also means that cases don't transfer between iPhone models.
I guarantee Jony uses a case.
I still wish there was a smaller iPhone that I could operate one-handed without the hacky home button tap to reach the top of the screen. How does that work on the X without the home button?
Same as with the wireless charger and wireless earbuds, they are advertised as part of the iphone innovative features but sold separately, so that they can advertise the whole line as "starting from $699"; meanwhile the whole iphone experience actually starts just shy of a thousand dollars.
> I still wish there was a smaller iPhone
me too, me too. holding tight to the 5s for now, I'm not gonna get a pouch for these non-pocketable monstrosities.
From my perspective the aftermarket cell phone case fixes a flaw in the design.
Highly likely unrelated, but it reminds me of Steve Jobs's biography where he talks about the important lesson from his dad about making sure every aspect of your work is done with care throughout. Even the parts people won't see.
I upgraded to an X from a 5. The screen real estate really allowed me to not to turn on my computer at some nights, which I consider as a plus. I just read what I want to read, and reply a bunch of e-mails, then put it off.
The sales reps can push for warranty or a case. Either way a win-win for Apple shareholders.
For being a radio frequency transparent, premium material?
Doubt it. For one, he can just get a new iPhone if his breaks, and two, he takes a lot of pride in his work. He's not going to go and cover it up.
"The notch" usually refers to the screen cutout for sensors at the top of the iPhone X screen, which has no relevance to the case. Do you mean the camera bump?
The iPhone cases from Apple would grip the same without the camera bump and corresponding case cutout. The sides of the apple cases wrap around all four edges of the phone, with only a partial cutout for speakers, microphone, and lightning port at the bottom. The edges of the case hold it very securely. It's hard to get the phone out because the edges grip so tightly.
> The changing shape of the notch also means that cases don't transfer between iPhone models.
The rest of the dimensions also change. If the iPhone 7 and 8 had the camera in the exact same spot, the cases still wouldn't be interchangeable. Not with a good fit on each phone at least.
> I guarantee Jony uses a case.
I bet he doesn't. People use cases to protect their phones. Ive could break a hundred phones and not feel any pain from replacing them.
So yeh, I don’t buy the parent’s argument either.
Well, the main issue is the wobble, but a flatness isn't necessarily the only solution. I wonder if they could use a less-conventional design, perhaps a contoured back with a "fatter" top and bottom that would allow it to rest horizontally, while improving balance and hand-feel. That's a pretty serious camera in the phone, they're doing plenty with the space they're using, and I bet they could cram some more fun components with a fatter bottom.
Patina is cool and adds character.
Apple care, expensive though it may be, gets me a few mulligans while also providing broader coverage against other unknown damage or warranty issues, something even the nicest Otterbox style cases won’t afford me. It’s all a trade off. My preference is expensive but I historically break a screen every year, why not plan accordingly.
AppleCare Plus FTW, indeed.
I don't want to be rude, I simply have a hard time understanding how careless people can be with their expensive devices. I'm not specifically accusing you of being careless, but I don't understand how people can drop their phones all the time.
My Moto X has been dropped one time, because I accidentally put it behind a stupid strap on my pants, rather than in the pocket. I cut that strap off afterwards, because that's just a really shitty idea to put a strap right on front of a pocket.
That probably sounds a little bit sanctimonious, but it's the truth.
I have broken exactly one phone in my entire phone-owning life (since 2002), I've had 6 phones during this time, 4 feature phones and 2 smartphones. So one accident in 16 years, and that was a Sony Ericsson Elm. It was actually what pushed me to finally get a smartphone, so maybe it was a net positive :-)
Arrogant maybe, but that's because I'm usually right about most things ;-)
But I can't help but feel like people make it out to be a bigger deal than it is... you can get it fixed third-party for pretty cheap.
But it's no nice looking they would say while buying a cover to promptly cover it the moment they unbox it. The idiocy of modern day smartphone culture boggles my mind. Ironic that it reminds me of apple's 1984 commercial in a bad way.
If they make the phone thicker (a "built in" case, if you will) a consumer's choice is actually restricted. Then there is of course that 10% of people who won't actually use a case served also.
But I also wonder what material you'd manufacture right onto a phone that doesn't just cheapen it to most people, like the lame helmet they give you when you rent a motorcycle. A cool brushed metal feel vs the cracking rubber and yellowing rubber on my girlfriend's cheap android.
Either way I'm not sure why one wouldn't put it in a case. It's like 10 years too late for anyone to be marveling at it.
I've dropped plenty of phones plenty of times and they've never broken.
With the notch, status space is at a premium and they finally get rid of that completely unnecessary advertising for AT&T, etc. (shows up on lock screen, that’s it). Also, when I’m in the background and using Google Maps for directions or something, it’s actually easier to have the location button in the top-left corner because I don’t hit it by accident.
I really don’t notice the notch after a month or so but I also set a wallpaper with a black top (thanks to the OLED, that part of the screen is so dark that it really does hide the notch completely).
One thing that’s really stupid is web pages. So many of them have floating bars at the top and buttons at the bottom; then there’s browser UI, and then the notch has the illusion that it’s taking up even more space (when in a way it’s not). In the end each site feels like it’s crapping all over my screen space on the X. Mobile browsing needs to be seriously redesigned from the ground up; anything less than a full screen experience needs to go.
Which makes me think, is it easy to know what operator you are connected to? I live on a border, and it's important to know whether I'm on a French antenna or a Belgian one.
I know it's an edge case and most people don't need that, but I'm curious and I can't really find screenshots of it. Actually on the screenshots I find you can't even know if you're connected on 4G or not, which matters as some operators here only allow unlimited data on 4G.
I'm just interested on whether it is easy to see as well on an iPhone X.
OTOH, if it gets too bad I use a kill sticky bookmarklet.
I keep DND on all hours of the day, every day, but never feel like I'm missing anything by just allowing phone calls. When I really need focus, and at night, I'll turn on the more restrictive setting, but at the end of the day if somebody really needs to get in touch with me the option is there.
(An aside, it would be nice to be able to have a separate schedule for the "only allow double calls through" option so it could be on during sleeping hours)
I wish they had provided the option to customize the status bar to always include this icon. Or better yet, create a mode where Do Not Disturb automatically turns on and off when I'm sleeping and awake based on signals like alarms, charging, and motion.
For that matter, I only occasionally glance at my fuel gauge in my car too. If it as at 3/4ths 10 minutes ago I don't need to double-check to make sure it hasn't suddenly hit empty.