Is there another reason than space-saving for the two batteries instead of one bigger one but L-shaped?
Maybe it's too materially inefficient to cut an L shaped electrode.
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#32Do you really need to hold it up to your face like I've been seeing? The reviewers look so awkward and uncomfortable. I was hoping it would see your face laying on the desk and whatnot.
You have to point the sensor towards your face and look at the screen.
So far feels pretty natural, 70-80% time the phone is unlocked before I think ‘is the phone unlocked’ the rest of the time I forget I need to glance (literally glance with your eyes) at the phone, which I think comes from muscle memory of from unlocking with touchid and not looking at the phone while it unlocks...
Passive security, will become standard across screen based interfaces in the next 5-10yrs...
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#33The most impressive thing to me is how similar the iPhone X is to the original iPhone (shown side by side in the second picture). Ten years ago, Apple totally nailed the design. Same buttons, same speaker design, same full panel display. Even design work by a company as talented as Apple, you might expect that a new model ten years into the future may look quite different, but it looks the same.
> The most impressive thing to me is how similar the iPhone X is to the original iPhone (shown side by side in the second picture).
And really, how similar every non-notebook/desktop Apple product has been to each other one. Design-wise, the iPhone was just an iPod with a bigger screen; iPod touch/nano/other variations are obviously just an iPhone in different sizes; the watch is just the iPod nano on a wristband; iPad is a bigger iPhone. Apple hasn't released a fundamentally new design idea in over a decade.
On the one hand, the consistency of physical design is its own type of branding and creates solid brand recognition. On the other hand, the UI/UX that transformed interacting in the digital world from using keyboards and mice to using our fingers on touch screens is already old. Apple really has no need to be creative since they are still profiting from their slight modifications. But the next big, real revolution in personal computing design and usage will need to be more than a glass rectangle with slightly better curved edges.
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#34Is there another reason than space-saving for the two batteries instead of one bigger one but L-shaped?
Maybe it's too materially inefficient to cut an L shaped electrode.
That’s my assumption. It’s probably much easier to fab two batteries to fit the space available in the phone than to use just one and leave empty space or have it made in an ‘exotic’ shape like a non-rectangle.
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#36Do you really need to hold it up to your face like I've been seeing? The reviewers look so awkward and uncomfortable. I was hoping it would see your face laying on the desk and whatnot.
You need to look at it. Just like when you use it.
I can't tell if you're being passive aggressive or not.
Many, many people have pointed out that looking directly at the phone (as needed by Face ID), is NOT the only way to use a phone. Sometimes one just wants to glance down at the screen to see a notification. Watch Nilay's review and you'll see what I mean.
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#37Truly impressive. Smaller, yet faster than the competition. Surprising how many of the chips are now internal Apple components: 1. CPU/GPU 2. Auxiliary Machine Learning/AI chip 3. NAND controller 4. IR Deapth sensor & signal processing chip 5. Power management IC (surprising that Apple is doing Analog IC design too!) Axiom in the tech world is that "Apple is a software company that builds hardware". Above is ample ev…
With how buggy iOS 11 is/was, it really does show where their focus has been.
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#39Is there another reason than space-saving for the two batteries instead of one bigger one but L-shaped?
I don't think that L-shaped battery can be made.
Imagine a list of paper which you need to fold into compact form. It would be really hard to fold it into "L".
Batteries made of long sheets folded then into rectangle
http://images.indianexpress.com/2017/01/galaxynote7_info_1.j...
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#40Steve Jobs - "People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware."