iPhone X

[akimba]

https://youtu.be/Mv-3XgmAetQ
iPhone X Face recognition Fail ;-)

In the comedy club as the iPhones are starting to be a joke ;-)

[Mickey]

As good as the blue screen of death

[hoponbaby]

Is it just me or is having to look at it and then swipe up more hassle & inconvenience that the current fingerprint? Phone can be on the desk and it takes 1 finger to open it, don't need to pick it up etc

[satzzz]

What about twins or triplets?

Sent from my Philips Cellnet using a 12c508

[andmor]

What about twins or triplets?

Sent from my Philips Cellnet using a 12c508

if i remember correctly, he said onstage that you should use a pin code as well for security reasons..

[piggzy]

if i remember correctly, he said onstage that you should use a pin code as well for security reasons..

Then its completely pointless !

[ss30]

if i remember correctly, he said onstage that you should use a pin code as well for security reasons..

Face, finger print and then pin code to be safe IMO

[akimba]

A lot of phones have this now and it works, my windows phone works off the iris rather than the face which I guess Android do too. so is unique per twin etc.

1 security issue someone raised is if you were under duress for whatever reason, looking at your phone would still unlock it.

But the new iPhones are only just catching up with their competitors and still charging extortionate prices for that luxury, wireless charging, 12mp camera and face recog for £1000 really :-0

[beerman]

I completely missed this release, before I'd watch the keynote (even though I don't own any apple products) just to see what innovation has happened. In the past years the innovation is getting less and less with Samsung beating them to market on many occasions.

My initial thoughts:
No fingerprint scanner and relying on your face is a step back. FFS just put it on the back like a nexus 5x. They even have a sort of circular logo they could have used for this purpose. Also face scan unlock has been available on Android for years.

That cut out of the screen will make watching anything in landscape a bit shit.

OLED screens, really? This is nothing new if you've had a Samsung or Sony. In fact aren't they Samsung screens?

£1200 price tag - you can fuck right off.

Animated emojis - See my thoughts on the price tag.

Bezel-less screen - why can I see a bezel then?

Wireless charging - nothing new here, had this on my Nexus 4.


Apple used to be the benchmark for innovation now they are just playing catchup. I can't wait to hear about all the "new" features in the press for the next few weeks until release day.

[akimba]

I completely missed this release, before I'd watch the keynote (even though I don't own any apple products) just to see what innovation has happened. In the past years the innovation is getting less and less with Samsung beating them to market on many occasions.

My initial thoughts:
No fingerprint scanner and relying on your face is a step back. FFS just put it on the back like a nexus 5x. They even have a sort of circular logo they could have used for this purpose. Also face scan unlock has been available on Android for years.

That cut out of the screen will make watching anything in landscape a bit shit.

OLED screens, really? This is nothing new if you've had a Samsung or Sony. In fact aren't they Samsung screens?

£1200 price tag - you can fuck right off.

Animated emojis - See my thoughts on the price tag.

Bezel-less screen - why can I see a bezel then?

Wireless charging - nothing new here, had this on my Nexus 4.


Apple used to be the benchmark for innovation now they are just playing catchup. I can't wait to hear about all the "new" features in the press for the next few weeks until release day.

Yeah exactly and the iPhone 7 release was all about how good the camera was yet the 8/10 has still gone for a 12MP woopsie my Nokia is 20MP and me older Nokia 1020 was 41MP.

Def been left in the other phone providers wake come on ffs wireless charging :-0 been around for years.

Apple have literally turned into the Call of Duty of phone still trying to milk the last of that cow from the die hard fans

[Over Carl]

Apple used to be the benchmark for innovation now they are just playing catchup.

I remember Apple leading the way with cut and paste

[piggzy]

I remember Apple leading the way with cut and paste

buhahahahahahah I forgot all about that little nugget.

[plug1]

"Apple have literally turned into the Call of Duty of phone still trying to milk the last of that cow from the die hard fans"

Fifa x .

lol )

[prezzy]

Was looking at these thinking to go back to apple but not impressed at all.
Still have a Note7 - will be keeping that for a while longer I reckon.

[piggzy]

Apple would be about to make themselves look like massive cunts with that ridiculous price and utterly boring specs/innovation......
but they wont because all the usual blinkered idiots will want to show them off like the Nike of the 80s.

Yawn

[Fear345]

I haven't had an iPhone since the 4. I watched this keynote thinking at the end I'll be selling my Galaxy S8 and Modular 45 and going Apple.....

Will I fuck as like. WTF was that comment about they have been wanting to build this phone for years and then just show us stuff we have had for years.

What has happened to the innovation that Apple used to deliver?

[piggzy]

What has happened to the innovation that Apple used to deliver?

The innovation of other companies inventions, where Apple bought the company slapped on patents and closed the companies down has clearly dried up.

[hoponbaby]

Tbh is it just Apple? What innovation do you get, or can you really expect, from any of the phone companies? It's a phone FFS, what do you want it to do?

[beerman]

Tbh is it just Apple? What innovation do you get, or can you really expect, from any of the phone companies? It's a phone FFS, what do you want it to do?

Exactly, it's a phone. A phone that costs £1200 with nothing that we haven't seen before other than an Apple badge.

I'm commenting more on the fact that Apple aren't innovators anymore and other companies are bringing new things to the table much earlier than them. Their marketing dept. really is worth it's salt. How they can do a keynote with old tech, put a ridiculous price tag on it and still have fanbois cumming in their pants is a tribute to them.

I did see an interesting feature on the new Sony which I would find quite handy, a 3d scanning feature that can export as an obj file. The demo I saw it looked really quick and easy to use. Much easier than taking loads of photos and uploading them to Autodesk remake. That's the kind of innovation I expect, useful stuff unlike animated emojis which just goes to show what kind of demographic Apple are targeting.

[{{909}}]

Tbh is it just Apple? What innovation do you get, or can you really expect, from any of the phone companies? It's a phone FFS, what do you want it to do?

been saying the same for years. We were spoilt in the early days with such rapid and exciting developments, GPS, the shift to bigger screens and a general shift for disposable information from the desktop to the pocket, but now, what's really left to buy a new phone for? I upgraded my 3 old LG G2 simply because it couldn't receive 4G here, other than that is was perfect for my day to day needs.

Most developers are just pushing us into new handsets by making OS's that intentionally run like shit on perfectly capable hardware, or just stopping software entirely which would work perfectly fine on virtually any spec.

You dont need a fucking 8 core cpu and 128gig of storage to check facebook and take a picture of your lunch.