[Closed] iPhone X

US prices are always quoted without sales tax (vat)

@Graham S as I posted I make/receive about 5 calls a week

Think I make even less than that Jamba. Easier just to send a text.

GrahamS - Member
Hence why a £30 PAYG suits you chewkw. Meantime I'm replying to you on my phone.

FOR A TELEPHONE???

I don't own a PC or a Laptop and everything I do online is done on my "telephone"

For work, It's also my daily planner, my only communication tool with the office and customers for calls, emails, texts, a satnav, a CRM tool, a camera, a barcode scanner for stock control, an access point for technical papers, a mobile card payment terminal and many other things I can't get through the day without.

£1000 is a bargain tbh. (Although my 7 is fine for now)

Ive had an iPhone since day one, and for the first few years i got excited as the tech evolved, but it reached what i thought was its peak a little while back and now its just about making it a little faster and the rest hyping up useless tech. Im sorry, emoji's? really, who gives a F@@@ about them. Because they obviously benefit my everyday life. pointless.

Ive slowly over the last few years been getting more and more pee'd off with all these launches, they just stress me out.
Then I saw the prices, you really must joking.
When my bro bought a SC 5010 and he mentioned the monthly payments I laughed, but now that looks rather tempting than paying more than that for a bloody phone a month.

I really miss some of the old Sony Ericsson's.
Sorry Apple, but your really not selling this.

Think I'll just sweat my 6 for another couple of years. A new battery last month has transformed it, it has a headphone jack, decent enough camera- will do for now.

In other news, I'm about to get a Mac Pro 1,1, 11 years old, to run El Cap.

Yeah, I think my 6 will soldier on for a while longer, even the 8 is just too expensive.

It's not that I even particularly like apple stuff, I'm just sick of being burned android phones and occasional poor compatibility.

@sterns

Same, for me peak iphone was probably iPhone6, even after a couple of OS "upgrades" it was as fast as my impatient mind wanted. That's the only thing I needed really no lagging and stuttering as I wiz about it switching from outlook to safari etc and ideally not getting all laggy when I'm on a call and need to bring up my diary etc. The rest for me is garnish.

I've never been brave enough to dunk my 7 in the bath and I've chucked every other iPhone I've ever had in the top of my pack on even the wettest days without worry.

My 7 is cool, but apart from not being knackered there wasn't my tangible to say it was better than my 6.

Iphone 6 remains the pinnacle(although I did like the 4) of Apple phones. So I'll keep mine a little longer.

Pretty happy with my new-to-me SE to be honest. Guts of a 6S but with better battery life and in the small form factor I prefer.

they just stress me out.

Bigger, higher res, display than the plus size phones yet the overall size is much smaller. What's not to like!

You lot watched it (I watched Mindhorn)

Is the 8 64gb £699 or whot?

Bigger, higher res, display than the plus size phones yet the overall size is much smaller. What's not to like!

I'm gonna stick my neck out and say the cost 😉

I suppose to a lot of people the ticket price doesn't matter - you pay £40-£60 a month for your phone and you can pretty much pick and choose your handset.

Perhaps because I haven't paid for my phones for years I feel like the one of the sane ones as others salivate at the thought of paying a grand for something with such a short lifespan.

you pay £40-£60 a month for your phone and you can pretty much pick and choose your handset.

😯

I think I pay £15 a month at the moment and I resent paying that much!

Surprised no one has mentioned[i]"Jony Ive"[/i]....

...That's it....GTF out of here and shut the door behind you.

I now believe that Jony Ive has been elevated on a waft of his own guff and exists purely in cloud form. Away from us slovenly beasts with our corporeal inelegance, he can be free to dictate his pure design brilliance on rounded edges and bezel-less bezels.

He has been sent to save us.

I've always watched apple iPhone announcements and thought 'yes I'm in the market for one of those in a few months'.

The iPhone X is waaaayyyyy too much for me. Wouldn't bother with the 8 either as a glass back is irrelevant as I'd have a case on it and wireless charging is completely pointless as I'm usually using mine whilst it's charging. For the first time in years I genuinely see no reason to switch.

@loddrik my upgrade is due Saturday but I'm totally with you.
First time I doubt Ill upgrade as no real point.
Ive been running iOS 11 fr a while now and a new handset won't feel any different.

I thought some of you would have been more excited about Watch 3 that can work without a phone next to it - sounds useful for MTB...

I have my phone in my bag in case of emergency, otherwise i don't want any distractions, im out on my bike to disappear and get away from it all

I thought some of you would have been more excited about Watch 3 that can work without a phone next to it - sounds useful for MTB...

The battery is pretty poor to start with. So I imagine with GPS/LTE running it's going to see it last about 2-3hrs.

I could be completely wrong of course.

The battery is pretty poor to start with. So I imagine with GPS/LTE running it's going to see it last about 2-3hrs.

"Anyone got the time?"

"Yeah, let me just check my AppleWatch. Oh. Buggerit."

iOS 11 users, any upgrades that aren't hardware dependant?

Is the 8 64gb £699 or whot?

Yes

https://www.apple.com/uk/shop/buy-iphone/iphone-8/4.7-inch-display-64gb-gold#00,11,20

I think my 6 cost £600 so an 8 for £700 seems reasonable, exchange rate is a bit worse than 3 years ago 😉

What is interesting for me is that the range is now very wide from the SE that I have through 6s, 6s plus, 7, 7 plus, 8, 8 plus and finally to the X.

The range touches on many price points, feature sets and storage options. It used to be one in one out but now it just seems to be expaning each time

For me the SE is perfect but of course, YMMV.

@peter yes that's a very good point about price range

I'll say it, I think for the majority of us peak iPhone was the 5/5S. There's been nothing really that innovative since then. This release will be met with a resounding 'meh'

Wonder how ApplePay will work with the face recognition thing. Some card readers have the contactless bit on the side so you'll have to do a funny sideways bow to get it working.

The 8 looks alright as long as its waterproof. Dunno if I'll just get the charging & headphone port on my 6 fixed instead though.

I'm just struggling to understand why anyone would pay that much for a phone, you can get octo core CPU's and 4gbs of ram, and expandable storage with a normal headset jack for half the price.

Water proofing is a good selling point, but other phones have that.

I'm just struggling to understand why anyone would pay that much for a phone, you can get octo core CPU's and 4gbs of ram, and expandable storage with a normal headset jack for half the price.

Because lots of people couldn’t give a shit about most of the things you said and just want the latest shiny.

Wonder how ApplePay will work with the face recognition thing. Some card readers have the contactless bit on the side so you'll have to do a funny sideways bow to get it working.

The 8 looks alright as long as its waterproof. Dunno if I'll just get the charging & headphone port on my 6 fixed instead though.

Do people not realise you can authenticate ahead of time for an Apple Pay transaction? Double-tap on the home button, give it your thumb and the text turns into "Hold near reader to pay" and you just wave it over the reader like any contactless card.

You'll do whatever the equivalent is for the face authentication ahead of time so you just put the phone on the reader, it won't need to have a view of your face.

^ I didn't know that, thanks!

@johnhboi

5/5S screen too small for me, 4S now looks like a postage stamp. I am yorn between normal and Plus sizing - bigger screen much prefered but worried the phone will be a pain to carry for when I am not wearing a jacket

I've yet to find a contactless terminal that takes ApplePay where the phone is in any position other than horizontally above it,

Ay? I've never had that issue anywhere.

I'm hoping the screen tech in the X (and UI changes it has forced) will eventually result in a smaller phone with a bigger screen, if you see what I mean Jamba. An SE size handset with edge to edge screen. I hate using big phones and tiny screens equally.

I think it looks great, but will certainly miss the ease of fingerprint ID unless Face ID (FaceID...FlacID?) works at funny angles.

I'll bet FaceID failings will be the legacy of this device. Fingerprint will be back on future top end devices…this is a stop gap.

Kelvin, I doubt it. As mentioned a bit above this recognition is way beyond the face recognition tech used before. It's bordering on Voodoo.

I have no doubts as to its capability, what i'm slight bothered about is its usability.

When my phone's on my desk, I can just tap the home button and it'll unlock and I can check my mail. All off to one side, nice and unobtrusive. If I have to pick the thing up and wave it in front of my face every time I want to use it, that'll become irksome real quick.

Yup, UX not tech failings. We'll see… touching a phone is obvious/necessary, so I still expect fingerprint to return.

I used to think wireless charging was awesome, until I actually had a phone that used it. Stopping charging everytime you pick it up to check STW is pretty annoying.

Wireless charging *is* awesome but depending on usage it might be your third charger - one in car, one on office desk and one in home.

For my work as office dweller it worked just fine.

Well I've just watched a few clips of the iPhone 8, more a brief synopsis than anything else.

This wireless charging facility is fine, but is there a lightning port for "normal" charger charging... assume there is but the pics and vids don't show the port.. unless it's a bit early and my eyes haven't opened quite yet.
And.. assuming there is a,lightning port, have to assume you can still use normal headphones with the adapter...

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