Picked up my iPhone before 9am today, but just got a few first impression thoughts to go by. Even if it’s not a popular phone with ozbargainers it’ll be good if your kids are screaming for them to know what to expect.
I’ll be spouting these out in random order as it comes to my head.
It’s bloody heavy. I moved from an iPhone 6 and it seems to have significantly greater mass. Larger size and glass construction does that.
All glass body means FINGERPRINTS EVERYWHERE. I’d buy a case just not to have those smears everywhere.
Not many non-mainstream apps support the new display yet. Looks funky as a box that’s significantly smaller than it should be, especially for landscape apps as they remove the width for the home swipe too.
No battery percentage number anymore. The notch at the top is bigger than i first thought and there’s only room for wifi, 3G and battery icon itself.
No option to require password after 5, 15 mins etc. it’s only available option is immediately. To avoid this, restore a backup from a phone with passcode required every 5 mins etc. though not many using touchID would have this optioned anyways.
Space grey looks extremely grey in some lighting conditions.
Awesome screen brightness, helps when using phone in bright conditions.
regarding screen, few apps can actually use the whole screen that I’ve come across. YouTube can scale it to the full width, but you lose the top and bottom of the video. Looks great in detail but… everything that fits on the iPhone X fits on the 6, 7 and 8. Still 6 icons tall and it feels like a waste of space really…
Swipe to open is easy to get used to. I used to press the home button to wake the phone, thought I’d have to use the lock button now. But you can tap anywhere on the phone and it’ll wake, which is quite neat. Only problem is you need to swipe from the very bottom of the phone. The large screen size makes it difficult to one hand wield with smaller lands, given bulk and weight of the phone.
FaceID is flawless when you’re holding the phone square on, but it gets a bit finicky if it’s flat on the table for example. That’s one of the reasons I like to have auto-lock of phone after 5 minutes. But if you just bring the phone to your face and swipe up, chances are FaceID will have unlocked during that time, so it seems smooth.
Vibration alerts on the IPhone X are much lower and deeper than my IPhone 6… Not sure if I like it, doesn't feel or sound as 'crisp'.
I think that’s enough for now but if you have any other questions about the iPhone X, or other impressions pop them down below!
Edit: Oh one last thing. I feel like the IPhone X runs a bit hotter than it should. Does anyone else have any feedback regarding this?
How do you feel knowing that the post office sells a smartphone for $33 that does everything that iPhone does?
jks I actually bought 2 iPhone Xs as gifts but preordered them
(Seeing people get their devices today is a little eye wrinkling since I chose to pre-order mine as soon as it opened and it wont come for another 3 weeks :( sniff)
anyway I wanted to ask what you thought of the space grey, is it a nice colour? are the metal sides of the phone a dark chrome?