Apple iPhone X 'the biggest leap forward since the original iPhone'

[peterb]

The apple store also has a load of rubbish on it. Although to nowhere near the same extent it's still their.

True, but there seems less of it. But the apps I have generally found useful and well written for IOS have been equally good on Android - when they have been available.

[MLyons]

True, but there seems less of it. But the apps I have generally found useful and well written for IOS have been equally good on Android - when they have been available.

It's all about barrier to entry. Good companies make good stuff on both platforms most of the time. developers that don't have much to spend go to android.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Android also allows you to debug the phones browser from the chrome browser which makes coding mobile sites 100 times easier.

I wasn't aware of that.

[MLyons]

I wasn't aware of that.

You just plug it with USB then do some checking in dev tools and it works. Sounds like something that could really help debugging mobile issues although chromes emulation is pretty decent. It also allows you to mess with mobile only features such as vibration (imagine getting a vibration when someone replies to your thread) and i believe there's a way to send notifications to a phone through the browser to achieve the same effect.

[Platinum]

BTW anyone looking to get an X have a look at Apples upgrade plan, comes out about £8 cheaper than EE for example if you get it on there and a £14 sim from Three that gives you 12gb data, the upgrade plan also comes with Applecare accidental damage cover.
If you dont need Applecare (have insurance already) then its a good £20 cheaper than a standard contract.

You also get a new phone every year with it which is nice.

90% sure this is the way I am going when its released.

[Platinum]

Also I think what people forget is (Especially on a PC enthusiast forum) is that to a lot of people a phone is there only computer, so looking at it like that when we drop more than that on PC's / Laptops and have a phone it doesn't look to bad.
These people buying a iPhone X is like people here buying a 1080 Ti but here we will be like "Nice card mate, dat FPS" ect

[kalniel]

These people buying a iPhone X is like people here buying a 1080 Ti but here we will be like "Nice card mate, dat FPS" ect

Well actually it was like:

The price for top end is insane these days,

Wish it was within my budget though.

I'm sorry, I just can't do it. I thought I could, but I can't.

I just cannot bring myself to spend that sort of money on a graphics card, I can afford it, but that's not the point, its just an obscene amount to spend on something as trivial as gaming.

There are just so many more life affirming things I could do with £800.

The pricing is crazy for a GPU, I'm glad I went with the 1070, if I spend a similar amount on my next GPU in a few years I'll end up spending around the price of this GPU altogether and probably end up with a better one.

[Platinum]

Fair enough, for people who's only computer is a phone though I don't think its to bad.

Rumoured BOM price for the phone puts its profit margin at less than a standard device, will have to wait for a teardown for that though, I cant imagine the mini Kinect in on the front was cheap.

[TheAnimus]

Fair enough, for people who's only computer is a phone though I don't think its to bad.

Rumoured BOM price for the phone puts its profit margin at less than a standard device, will have to wait for a teardown for that though, I cant imagine the mini Kinect in on the front was cheap.

I think it depends what you are using it for.

I quite like my OP5 because the ludicrous amount of RAM means I can keep lots of chrome tabs open and not have them refresh. This is a device that's less than half the price.

[Xlucine]

I wonder how the emoji thingy works? Unicode doesn't cover mixing facial expressions (AFAIK), so does apple expect you to send an MMS every time?

[postpeter]

I wonder how the emoji thingy works? Unicode doesn't cover mixing facial expressions (AFAIK), so does apple expect you to send an MMS every time?

kind of. if I remember well, they showed that you send a short video with animated emoji and your message