Apple iPhone X unboxing

5. cmdacos (Posts: 1894; Member since: 01 Nov 2016)

Try it out of you can. It's worse then ugly, it's an eyesore and hinders functionality. And the bezels are wayyyyy bigger then marketing material has you believe.

The UI needs to be adapted to a larger screen format but that's too much work for Apple. The camera app for example still has more black screen then preview/photo. Really a lazy attempt to go 'bezeless'.

8. Iodine (Posts: 1454; Member since: 19 Jun 2014)

Well, you should get prepared to hate phones all around because a notchevolution is comming up.

Bezzels are exactly the right size, Apple actually pays attention to their marketing material to reprezent things correctly.
And what’s so surprising that wiewfimder takes less space in camera app ? Do you know what is an aspect ratio for a typical photo ? How that has to do anything with “bezzellessness” anyway.

10. cmdacos (Posts: 1894; Member since: 01 Nov 2016)

Well I've used better screen to body ratio phones and have seen them tweak their UI to take advantage of the larger screen so... I'm not going to accept lazy design from Apple sorry.
You can though, your money.

14. trojan_horse (banned) (Posts: 5868; Member since: 06 May 2016)

"Well, you should get prepared to hate phones all around because a notchevolution is comming up."

Are you delusional or what by assuming that most OEMs would copy the iPhone X notch?

Other flagships handsets to have higher screen-to-body ratio than the iPhone X with no notch!

43. Furbal (Posts: 209; Member since: 19 May 2017)

They should have just made it even across and lost a % or 2 on body to screen ratio

40. sgodsell (Posts: 6056; Member since: 16 Mar 2013)

At the end of the day iPhonearena is going to give the iPhone X a score higher than 9. If they gave the iPhone 8 a score of 9, especially when other sites gave it a lower score. Yet this site gave it a score of 9. And all other smartphones they gave under that score. Meanwhile other smartphones had OLED displays, and finger print scanners, as well as Facial recognition, and some with iris scanners as well. The bias is strong on this site. Or maybe it's the payouts.

22. mikehunta727 (unregistered)

They can't really do anything about the photo preview in camera app unless they crop in the sensor than but than your losing a bit of image by being cropped in

I.e can fill up whole screen on Note 8 in camera view finder but lose a good amount of field of view

Option would be nice though

26. Awalker (Posts: 1843; Member since: 15 Aug 2013)

I don't understand why they didn't go straight across with the bezel.

7. Rishi17 (Posts: 97; Member since: 22 Sep 2016)

Did you hit your head or something?

16. darkkjedii (Posts: 27237; Member since: 05 Feb 2011)

No he didn't hit his head, it's called personal preference. I don't like the notch at all, but the device is still good looking, especially the silver one. Post stupidity all you want, but people are still gonna enjoy what they want to spend their own money on.

IPhone X has a notch, Note 8 is too tall, so what!

21. Rishi17 (Posts: 97; Member since: 22 Sep 2016)

I guess you are right but in this case they "have" to enjoy & the reason is that they don't have a choice, I mean if they don't buy iPhone X what other choice do they have, no other company makes iOS devices, there is no meaningful diversity, I know most people would be happy, but I call that compromise, you know that too, no offense, I like iOS optimization a lot, but they haven't brought anything significant improvement over past 4-5years, last time I was impressed with their presentation was whey they introduced 64bit processor & caught everyone off-guard, but their designs stinks, I am no fanboy, but almost every major company has changed a lot & that's for better only, but apple just keep on doing the same thing, I love their business model, they are very good when it comes to marketing & support as well, there is a reason why they eat up most profit every quarter.

25. darkkjedii (Posts: 27237; Member since: 05 Feb 2011)

Some of your post I agree with, but in the end, just don't buy it if it's not for you. I have my issues with the X, and with Apple for not including certain things we all know it's fully capable of doing, but I've spoken on them, and see no need to rain on people's parade. I simply chose to speak with my wallet, and not buy it.

It's gonna be a great phone for toms of people, let em enjoy it dude. I chose the Note 8, and I'm hooked on it. It's not for everyone, and neither is the X, but it's for me.

48. Diego! (Posts: 802; Member since: 15 Jun 2009)

I really prefer the Essential Phone design over the iPhone X, but I'm not buying it until they go with an OLED or AMOLED screen and with some software polished. Maybe the next generation of Essential Phone will be improved a lot. Hopefully!

31. darkkjedii (Posts: 27237; Member since: 05 Feb 2011)

Not gonna say whether you're lying or not, cause I don't know, but your post sounds kinda typically fabricated. To be believable, you coulda stopped after "our 7+".
Enjoy your tech.

44. PhoneCritic (Posts: 1243; Member since: 05 Oct 2011)

I have to say its the same thing as Dark and other mentioned about the S series FPS you forget about it and find that its not really a problem and that's what I really feel PA should not have placed as a con for any of the S series because if you can excuse the so called "Notch" which you have to see every day what about a FPS which you don't have to see or use every day?

Anyway this is a great phone and those who were fortunate enough to get theirs enjoy.

47. omnitech (banned) (Posts: 1131; Member since: 28 Sep 2016)

Too bad iPhonearena would never post this on the news. They are going to do their best to ignore it or find positive articles to take their place.

49. Diego! (Posts: 802; Member since: 15 Jun 2009)

It will get a 10.X

xD