Apple iPhone X long-term review

18 January 2018
The introduction of Face ID and the removal of the Home button has resulted in a paradigm shift in the way we interact with our iPhones. Three of us have been using the iPhone X since launch and this long-term review covers what the iPhone X is like to live with on a day to day basis and we are ready to answer what's good and what's bad about it from a different perspective.

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  • AnonD-675629
  • md2
  • 18 Jan 2018

I’m using the X since release and i will never return to touch ID, for me FACEID always works, the only time it doesnt work is when im in my bed.
The screen is absolutely gorgeous, with the right colors all the time.. I have the true tone setting turned of since the release because it makes the screen yellowish, but when my girlfriend uses my X she always puts on true tone because the normal setting hurts her eyes(she has a lazy eye).
The notch is there, but after a while you just dont see it anymore, i even start to like the notch because its different from all phones(except Essential ofcourse).
Also the gestures are the best, people claiming that closing down the apps are a pain in the ass, yes it is. But why the f*** would you close apps on an iphone when iOS puts them in a hibernation after a while. Closing and restarting the app uses more power than just keeping it “open”, even apple claimed thats better for your battery life.
For me this iPhone is by far the best iPhone i’ve ever had. ( i’ve owned the 3GS, iPhone 5, 6 Plus and came from the 7 plus when upgrading to the X.

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    • AnonD-1825
    • mhV
    • 18 Jan 2018

    "On other occasions, when relying on raise to wake to activate the screen, the screen doesn't wake up quickly enough, so you decide to push the power button, but just as you do, the screen wakes up, and the result - your pressing of the power button turns it off instead. Total disaster. Happens more often than we thought."

    Why would you press a power button when iPhone X has tap to wake? If you use power button to wake up your screen, it means you still have to move your finger to swipe to homescreen, so why you just don't tap the screen and your finger is already closer to make the swipe up gesture?

    Personally i don't like to press any physical buttons with phone and X removed that, i very rarely have to push any physical button, new swipe gestures works great, makes the user experience very smooth. Before X i hardly never used app switching, but with X it became second nature just by swiping from bottom, it's so fast to jump between recent apps.

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      • Anonymous
      • 0cL
      • 18 Jan 2018

      Interesting review, but I am not exactly sure what the benchmarks are. I love my X. After a few days I think it's a much better experience than the Edge it replaced, with better camera and less bugs. Voice recognition on the Edge had become worse over the last year and sometimes it doesn't even react to voice commands, while the iPhone is faster and much more accurate. I also really like the face recognition, it works perfectly for me.

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