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Tonka 5 Dec 2017 12:28:07 31,979 posts
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Munty wrote:
it doesn't worth money, as always apple made phone for $300 and sell for $1000

Well, that's it then.

HarryB 5 Dec 2017 12:34:31 7,630 posts
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Still don’t have a refund. Apple are officially dead to me.

yegon 5 Dec 2017 12:52:56 6,511 posts
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Munty wrote:
it doesn't worth money, as always apple made phone for $300 and sell for $1000

Spot on.

No r&d is needed for these devices. Just buy a bit of glass and some sensors off Amazon and build it yourself. The software writes itself.

Apple sheep.

askew 5 Dec 2017 13:19:34 24,121 posts
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Seems to attract quite a lot of lint where the steel band meets the glass… 🤭

yegon 5 Dec 2017 13:22:07 6,511 posts
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I love the gestures. Reminds me of a jailbreak tweak I used years ago, Zephyr, when the home button on my iPhone 4 broke and I couldn’t be bothered fixing.

Two minds about Face ID.

It’s great for everyday use when you’re holding it, and it REALLY comes into its own browsing and authenticating for passwords. Sounds like nothing when you only had to previously rest your finger on Touch ID, but it feels much more seamless when it just authenticates without the need to interact.

It has trouble with my face in the morning though. Virtually everyday I have to enter my code when I get up. Equally, it is a bit of pain when it’s lying flat. Funny how wireless charging has finally come to Apple, yet the phone is now a pain to unlock when flat. Solved by an angled charger I suppose, but still. I don’t use wireless charger anyway, still happy with a wire, and combined with a 29w charger it’s blistering fast to top up.

Edited by yegon at 13:24:16 05-12-2017

Tonka 5 Dec 2017 13:30:49 31,979 posts
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yegon wrote:
It has trouble with my face in the morning though. Virtually everyday I have to enter my code when I get up.

That might be a feature tbh. It might have gone into hard lock down or some such. Mess about in the settings and you might find something to get rid of it.

yegon 5 Dec 2017 15:01:27 6,511 posts
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I thought that may be the case, but it’s hit and miss. Sometimes I enter the code, put it down, pick it up 10 minutes later when I’m getting up, and it asks again/sometimes unlocks.

TheSaint 5 Dec 2017 15:08:07 20,950 posts
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Not sure if that is reassuring or not.

Fake_Blood 5 Dec 2017 15:12:15 11,093 posts
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The more face it has to work with, the better it works.

ozthegweat 5 Dec 2017 16:02:33 2,977 posts
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Scarf-ace?

THFourteen 5 Dec 2017 17:41:41 54,987 posts
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Switch off the attention awareness if you haven’t already (and if you aren’t some sort of security nut)

Derblington 5 Dec 2017 18:07:29 35,161 posts
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Its the setting that tells the phone not to unlock unless you're looking at it. With it off it'll unlock at wider angles, so it should make it easier to use when laying on a desk, for example.

Armoured_Bear 5 Dec 2017 20:29:42 31,233 posts
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Mfolf wrote:
Faceid mixed with the gesture controls is just amazing. I had my reservations as I was a big fan of touchid but this is better. Much, much better. Delighted with it. Slippery fucker though so going to have to stump up for case.

Tell me about the new gestures

Jeepers 5 Dec 2017 20:33:17 16,616 posts
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... said ecosse as he slithered across his laminate flooring toward the cupboard marked "Baby lotion and tissues".

Armoured_Bear 5 Dec 2017 21:00:56 31,233 posts
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Mfolf wrote:

Armoured_Bear wrote:

Mfolf wrote:
Faceid mixed with the gesture controls is just amazing. I had my reservations as I was a big fan of touchid but this is better. Much, much better. Delighted with it. Slippery fucker though so going to have to stump up for case.
Tell me about the new gestures
Swiping up to close and swiping up and holding to switch apps. I thought it would be clunky and some reviewers said as much. But it is infinitely better than before. Means you are never leaving the screen and having to double tap buttons. All feels more fluid and fast. Reminding me of the touch pads on the MacBooks which to this day are better than any other trackpad or mouse configuration you can find. Set it up with customisable gestures and it works like a dream. I hope Apple expand on this in the phone.

Cheers.
BTW I saw my mate’s at the weekend with a white official Apple silicone case and thought it looked pretty nice.

spindizzy 6 Dec 2017 06:26:58 7,755 posts
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@binky Argh! You utter bellend! ;-)

askew 8 Dec 2017 13:07:17 24,121 posts
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ozthegweat wrote:
Scarf-ace?

This needs more plaudits.

Zomoniac 8 Dec 2017 22:40:49 10,628 posts
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My X arrived earlier today. I’m liking all this screen. Face ID mostly seems to work but definitely not as reliable as Touch ID, seems to only work if I’m facing it head on. Also none of my banking apps support it, which annoying.

The gestures mostly became second nature within an hour or two, except having to hold on the app switcher to bring up the close icon instead of swiping up, seems an unnecessary change that adds another layer for no good reason. Overall though I like it very much.

yegon 8 Dec 2017 23:06:12 6,511 posts
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Yeah, I swipe 45 degrees, linger for a fraction of a second, lift thumb and et voilà. No need to hold and wait.

Edited by yegon at 23:07:01 08-12-2017

ozthegweat 9 Dec 2017 00:12:57 2,977 posts
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Just in case some of you close apps all the time: don't. Except for crashed apps, the only thing manually closing apps does is shorten battery life and slow down opening apps.

ozthegweat 9 Dec 2017 00:16:29 2,977 posts
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Also: a neat gesture is swiping horizontally to the right on the home indicator bar at the bottom to go to the previous apps. You can also swipe left to go forward again, although you'll have to do this within a second or so of swiping right, else the current app becomes the new "first" in the list.

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