So I tried it, an iPhone X

Can you turn it off and use the thumb thing? Or do you HAVE to use the faceshit?

 

You can do both. Just tap the screen and you can enter your passcode. But yes you can turn it off, it’s not mandatory. There is no thumb print on the X.

 

The new cams coming out on the iPhone X, Pixel 2, etc. are a game changer IMO. Broome mentioned getting new phones and doing the same shit all the time, the new phone tech to me constitutes a a true next gen leap in smartphones this time. It's not just the next one because its a new year.

My Pixel 2 can take the picture my eye sees at night and portrait mode has kept my lady from making us do a photoshoot with the baby.

 

Do you have case covers for those?

 

The hate on Apple reminds me alot of the Uccio hate. I guess iPhone users aren't real cell phone users either, right?

Anyways, anyone that isn't an iPhone user will still hate it. Just like using a non-iOS device is annoying to me. I keep the phone well past the 2 years of payments so the price doesn't bother me. My GF and I got the BOGO deal when I moved over to Verizon so it averages out to $800 for each phone. That's still an ass ton but the days of buying an iPhone for $400 went away when the subsidies did but then again, the monthly service rates are now down around $50 for a multiple line unlimited data plan.

As for the iPhone X it's the best one yet. Not sure how any older iPhone user would have a problem with the way it works. The face ID works 90% of the time which is about double the F-in fingerprint ID on my last one. I hate the size of the plus and this gives the screen size of the plus in the frame of the non-plus. For me, adapting to no home button went way better than I would have thought. All motions seem obvious to navigate. It's pretty damn fast too.

 

Love my X too. And the camera definitely rocks! I also have nothing but praise for it. I really like the cordless charging.... (I know others have had it for a while, shit I'm still riding bikes with points!)

 

I hate the dongle, but for reasons that are very very low use case.

The dongle contains a tiny DAC that sucks. The output quality isnt great and it seems worse than previous iPhones w/ the headphone jack. Plus, it'll only play nice with MFi certified headsets and produces a loud clicking noise on anything else. You can't use a better mic into a splitter with headphones anymore. On top of all that, some software still isnt setup to use a good external DAC through the Lightning port. so if you want to create good audio/video content w/ an iPhone, you are likely hosed.

 

He doesn't like Apple. I have an older set of Klipsch ear buds with speaker for answering calls and I have observed none of what he said above.

 

The phone doesn't need any light to unlock, not even from the screen.

The facial recognition projects 30,000 infrared dots onto your face and the module analyzes that data in real time.

 

I didn’t know that, it works better than the thumb scanner and that’s all I care about.