iPhone X Delivery Dates

mototireguy

mototireguy

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I get it that bleeding edge ultra fast tech big storage modern phones with eye popping screen displays cost so much.

And if I was doing CPU/memory intensive photo or video processing I would need this kind of horsepower.

But is there such a thing as too much phone horsepower? I mean for daily driver calling, texting, gaming, photos, browsing a $400 phone is more than good. The $1000 price point bleeding edge iPhone8 just seems like overkill.
 
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yodaisgod

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It's so they can handle the ever growing and bloating needs of social media and micro-transaction gaming apps. :p
 
gnahc79

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mototireguy said:
I get it that bleeding edge ultra fast tech big storage modern phones with eye popping screen displays cost so much.

And if I was doing CPU/memory intensive photo or video processing I would need this kind of horsepower.

But is there such a thing as too much phone horsepower? I mean for daily driver calling, texting, gaming, photos, browsing a $400 phone is more than good. The $1000 price point bleeding edge iPhone8 just seems like overkill.
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All of the insane hours of R&D and tech devoted to...unlocking your phone with yer face. And animojis. That's worth $1,000 right???


youtu.be/7a58ZH63EU0
 
Hooli

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yodaisgod said:
$1,380-1,390 for doing right (IMO) with an 64GB iPhone X...fuck that noise. :x

Forgo AppleCare, then you are at $1,180.
No fast USB-C charger (shame on Apple for not including it), $1,131.
Go naked...$1,092...but who are we kidding. Most everyone will get a case.
Wireless charging pad...I'd say you should get one because what's the point of having a smartphone with wireless charging and not utilize it.

So yeah, you could just get the X for about $1,084. Or, again, do what I think it is right and be spending 13" rMPB w/o touchbar monies by spending nearly $1,400.:wtf
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This right here. : |

Meanwhile my old S5 still works and does what I want. And it was paid off long ago. :twofinger
 
AbsolutEnduser

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nice exposay by yodais---, about the prices.


gnahc79 said:
All of the insane hours of R&D and tech devoted to...unlocking your phone with yer face. And animojis. That's worth $1,000 right???
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What occurred to me is that I sometimes I don't even use the *newest* features of phones, if they get deemed less secure. Depends on the mood..
e.g. fingerpring vs PIN,
now this : face unlock????

So anyway, lots of money.

one more thing. Animated emojis?!?!?!? WTH??? How old are those people?
(BTW on my Andoird the poop non-animated character already exists.. b/c of the Unicode, so what's the problem?
 
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gnahc79

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Many of the new features shown in launches and reviews are parlor tricks. Cool to show your friends, you use it for a few weeks because it's new and then...back to your normal usage. Animojis, VR, AR are functions that I don't see as justifying $1000 for me. Maybe the younger people use that stuff all the time?

Removing the fingerprint unlock is a big risk IMO. Spending over $1000 to be a guinea pig to see how effective face unlock really is in the real world is a big risk.
 
mototireguy

mototireguy

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I'm using an S5. Piece of crap gets less than an hour of battery life. Time for an upgrade to a 6 or a 7.
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L-Ion batteries get weak after 1000 re-charges.

New $13 battery should fix that.

Galaxy-S5-back-cover-is-removed.jpg
 
yodaisgod

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I'm using an S5. Piece of crap gets less than an hour of battery life. Time for an upgrade to a 6 or a 7.
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As mentioned, you can replace the batteries.

The only issue with having a phone that "old" (April 2014) is security patches as it can only support up to Android 6.0.1

Whereas, iOS 11 supports the iPhone 5S which was released Sept 2013. And well, no bloated Samsung shit to get in the way.

If I were EVER go to Android, it would have to be a pure Android device.
 
Blankpage

Blankpage

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The screen is cracked also so I mentioned at work that I need a new one. Will be interesting to see what I get, probably a used POS turned in by someone who quit :mad
 
gnahc79

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:laughing
https://www.wired.com/story/iphone-x-first-impression/

Yes, this is the one—the iPhone that will hasten millions of upgrades, the one that’s made you ignore the hardly-knew-ye iPhone 8, announced on the same day as this one. After expressing proper admiration for its bright screen and svelte bezels, people would ask me, “What’s it do?” and I’d have to choose something that might indicate why Apple was charging $1000 for this baby.
I could show them more of the dazzling high-resolution screen that covers just about the entire surface of the device. I could snap some photos, demonstrating how you could now use the artsy portrait mode in the selfie-friendly front camera. Or I could show how I was slowly mastering a new set of gestures that would reprogram my muscle memories previously optimized for a home button, an appurtenance strikingly missing from my glass-encased X. But what I ultimately chose was an animated piece of shit.

That’s right—Apple’s creepy update to the iconic poo emoji. The iPhone X (pronounced “ten,” not as in X-ray) includes this mildly naughty character as one of 12 possible “Animojis” in its iMessage app.
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AbsolutEnduser

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Funny excerpt.

:laughing

Either way it's your money, you buy it.
It does seem like a lot of money though.

Is the phone going to be a token of something ?
 
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JesasaurusRex

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no additional head way, been away for work for a while. Be kinda interesting to see what happens with this project come the new year. Might have plenty of time to wrench :laughing...:|
 
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gt3x24x7

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Hooli said:
This right here. : |

Meanwhile my old S5 still works and does what I want. And it was paid off long ago. :twofinger
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Still have my S4 from 2013 that works, but I have an S7 that I use now. S4 is my back up phone. Never understood why people drop such big bucks on a phone. :wtf
 
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