First field report of iPhone X

Post by Infernal » Mon, Oct 30, 2017, 4:25 PM UTC

Shivetya wrote: post #98

madeofpalk wrote: post #94

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I would say similar to the amount now, and less than passcode-based unlock Using your phone while driving is reckless, regardless of the authentication mechanism.

however the touch id does not require you to look at your phone to unlock and unconsciously people will look at an X to unlock it even though it only needs to see you, not the reverse. neither is a good idea but Apple recently pushed out lockouts for Do not disturb while driving. I have not tried this feature and it defaults to off. So how well it works, well it won't stop me from using the phone as it appears to be…

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Oct 30, 2017, 4:27 PM UTC

seba_dos1 wrote: post #104

Slaul wrote: post #64

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For whatever reason I was under the impression that those phones were larger than they are. Thanks for pointing those out to me! I'm still probably going to switch to Apple because I've been working towards being more privacy conscious in the last several months and Apple's stance on privacy and encryption is appealing.

Switching to Apple doesn't really seem like a good way to move towards being more privacy conscious. Even if you don't mind the walled garden and lack of control of your own device (you should if you really want to care about privacy), recent revelations like silently granting special permissions to Uber app should remove any remaining appeal there may have been in them.

Post by bgentry » Mon, Oct 30, 2017, 4:28 PM UTC

goatforce5 wrote: post #108

bgentry wrote: post #96

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My understanding is that media fills the screen in the same way it does on any other iPhone. A double tap will change the zoom setting such that it will letterbox and not cut off any part of the video. This setting is supposed to be saved when you view another video. And because this screen has such a wide aspect ratio, in most cases you can zoom out and only have black bars on the notch side and opposite side (left…

From what I understand (from a 'The Talk Show'/John Gruber podcast, IIRC), the default view for fullscreen landscape video has black bars on the left and right. It's only when you double tap to go to full screen (and thus cropping the top/bottom) that the notch interferes with the video. He made the point that Apple showing the notch covering video was them kinda going out of their way to highlight that the notch was…

Post by zimpenfish » Mon, Oct 30, 2017, 4:30 PM UTC

iainmerrick wrote: post #89

pjc50 wrote: post #27

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I'm kind of surprised on this because it's been around on various Android and Windows devices for a while. I understand that it might be more reliable and faster, but that's incremental rather than revolutionary.

"Reliable and fast" is exactly why TouchID was so great when they introduced it. They aren't just nice-to-have features, they're the bare minimum requirements for this kind of thing -- a feature that you use constantly, and which gates your access to all other features.

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Oct 30, 2017, 4:32 PM UTC

waterflame wrote: post #53

While I love the phone and find it a big improvement over all current market phones (not that innovative though), I wonder how many people will die trying to unlock their phones while driving. And they will unlock it while driving.