hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech and iPhone X has been out for a couple of
years and this was a phone that I used for myself for about ten months but I
wanted to revisit it since it's been out for a couple years and my wife still
uses an iPhone X to this day she's used one since the release date in fact it
was the only iPhone she's ever asked for and she didn't want to upgrade to the 11
or 11 Pro or any of those so she's still using it so I've asked her for some of
her feedback and I've also wanted to show you this phone as well now as far
as the design is concerned it still holds up well two years later it's got
the knotch it hasn't changed on any of the modern
displays and this was the actual showing of the first OLED for Apple so it's held
up really well the display goes edge to edge and works really well I think it
looks great overall and over all of these years it has no burnin in fact I
downloaded a wallpaper so we could take a look at it and you can't see any
burnin and burnin if you're not familiar with that on OLED displays such as this
display they have a tendency to have ghosting or burnin where you might see
an icon or some text that still stuck on the display even though the display is
not on the same page you're on so maybe you're in male and you'll see ghosting
but I don't see any of that so this wallpaper shows you that there's
no burn in whatsoever the display has held up really well that way this phone
also has 3d touch and while iOS 13 treats 3d touch a little bit differently
because the display is pressure sensitive it does still react more
quickly so if I press and hold and slide it's it's just like it was before with
peak and pop and all of those things so you'll see it just pops up a really
quickly there's no issues here and it feels better than it does on say an
iPhone 11 Pro for example it's just a faster response time overall so if I go
into my iPhone 11 Pro for example press and hold it takes a second longer to
show up on the 11pro Macs so you'll see I'm pushing the same thing it's much
quicker on the iPhone X now as far as durability while this phone is made of
stainless steel all the way around so that part's pretty durable and the
display has held up pretty well but that doesn't mean it doesn't have scratches
on it and not to use my displays with screen
protectors on them or anything and depending on the certain light that
you're under you can see the actual scratches there's not really many on
this display they're more on the back actually and you'll see them here
because I'm setting the phone down on the back so if you look right around
this edge you're going to see quite a few little micro scratches and things
and that's just from the edge touching whatever table it's on normally the
display itself really doesn't have many scratches on it so it's held up pretty
well and of course all of that could be avoided if you use a case or a screen
protector I just prefer not to do that but if you like that that's fine it's
held up well over that time and when it's not in use it's actually in a case
and then in my backpack when I carry it around to do different iOS updates and
things like that now as far as the camera is concerned the camera still
holds up incredibly well in fact a lot of people prefer this camera to say the
newer cameras on the X or XS Max that actually introduced a little bit of
face smoothing and so there really isn't any of that on this camera it still has
all of those video functionalities that you get in new phones so let me swing
that around you still get 4k 60 but you can't change it like you can on the new
ones hopefully they change that in the upcoming updates because there's no
reason you shouldn't be able to but if you tap on those they won't change but
you still get 4k 60 off the rear camera you don't get that with the front-facing
camera though now as far as battery life is concerned well this was used for
about a total of ten months and if we go to settings and then battery battery
health is at 97% in this this is pretty typical of phones I use over the years
probably about 97% battery life after a year of usage or 10 months of usage for
me I've talked about that in previous videos that seems to be pretty typical
for how I use it and I do use a lot of different devices such as iPad in in
Mac's as well so that's going to factor into some of that a little bit but I
never let my phone get warm and it's usually around 70 to 75 degrees
Fahrenheit so that heat is really kept down plus I don't leave a case on it so
it can easily dissipate that heat now using this all day long battery life
still seems to be fine is in fact for me I had no problems when I was using it
full time getting through the day and my wife that's still using it has no
problem getting through the day she charges it at night before she goes to
bed and that's about it so there's no problems with battery for most people
depending on how you use the phone if you're a heavy user you could always get
a battery case or something like that or charge it multiple times throughout the
day but for normal average use it should be fine as far as that goes and
performance seems fast there's no issues as far as scrolling and things like that
even on iOS 13 some people were concerned about it slowing down the
phone but it seems to be fine my wife has not complained about speed you'll
see different apps and hope and applications load fast you can open them
quickly and no matter what you're doing it seems to be pretty quick in general
so I wouldn't really worry about that this generation of processor iPhone X
was a big leap over what the competition had and just feels very fast today it
just doesn't have some of that neural engine processing that the newer newer
neural engines have where it's way faster than what we had but you really
only see that with things like computational photography and things
like that now the good thing about the iPhone X if you have the Verizon
variant is that it has a Qualcomm mote a minute now this is not the Verizon
variant but if you had the one with the qualcomm mode a minute it's going to
have much better connectivity or reception now it may not be as fast as
the new phones but it's going to have better connectivity and reception
overall than the newer phones just because Qualcomm modems seem to be a lot
better so if you have a newer phone like a XS Max or an 11 Pro max like this
this has okay connectivity and when it's connected it's fast even though this was
the GSM variant and not Verizon I still had far less connectivity issues with
this particular phone so that should help as well now as far as future
proofing and things like that well there's really nothing wrong with this
phone other than maybe it's not up to the standards of an 11 pro for its
camera otherwise you've still got the normal lens telephoto and this is more
than sufficient for most people in fact most people aren't going to notice it
has any issue whatsoever it still has capabilities such as
augmented reality and in general it's just a great phone there's
no complaints now the size may be a little bit small for some people but if
I show you side by side it looks small in my hands because I have big hands but
the 11pro max fits me perfectly this one is very easy to just reach across the
screen no problem so it just depends on what you prefer this is the same size as
an 11 Pro for example so it's a great size
there's no complaints as far as that goes now as far as future support the
iPhone X is going to be supported for quite some time the differences we may
see as next year where there may be a redesign but overall it feels very
modern and no one will really know the difference between this and a XS and
it's still a great phone and you can get it fairly reasonably today if you can
find it used or refurbished so yes I'd recommend an iPhone X if you're looking
for an inexpensive way to get into the gestures or less expensive I shouldn't
say inexpensive but less expensive way to get into gestures and things like
that with a great camera and it actually has pretty decent speakers as well now
as I mentioned before my wife is using an iPhone X full time and she's had no
complaints about it she's a normal user she really doesn't pay attention to
technology and her battery health is down to 91% she charges it wirelessly
all the time and it's plugged into the car all the time when she's driving
using it as navigation so she's had no issues with reception or anything like
that the only issue she's ever mentioned to me is more recently with iOS 13 point
to where she wasn't receiving notifications I had her check a bunch of
settings it wasn't pushing to her phone or to her watch
and so that's a problem in general that will have to be fixed with a software
update but she's had no reception issues no problems whatsoever
she likes the display and she'll continue to use it she has the option to
upgrade but doesn't want to and I think that's the majority of users who are
going to use the iPhone X it's a great phone and there's no reason to upgrade
unless you have to have that newest camera on the iPhone 11 Pro so other
than that I think there's really no reason to upgrade unless you want that
or massive battery life improvements like the new phone as well now finally I
wanted to mention PWM or screen flicker and that's
the iPhone X or most all ads control their screen brightness the brighter you
go the faster it flickers to keep the screen screen on longer so that it's
brighter it's basically the same brightness all the time and by
flickering that display you perceive it as brighter or darker and so the actual
rate on the iPhone X hurts my eyes personally and affects quite a few
people about 1 in 10 I've mentioned it quite a few times before but the newer
iPhone 11 Pro and Pro Macs have a faster flicker rate so that it doesn't bother
my eyes like the iPhone X does so if you're sensitive to things like that
maybe you get migraines from lights or flashing lights things like that you may
want to consider either getting an iPhone 11 that has an LCD display and
doesn't have this or getting the newer iPhone 11 Pro or pro max that actually
has a high enough rate that it doesn't bother in most people's eyes so just
keep that in mind if you're trying to pick one of these up and you're
sensitive to things like that but let me know your experience if you have an
iPhone X do you still like it are you going to upgrade are you waiting let me
know your thoughts about that in the comments below if you'd like to get your
hands on this wallpaper of course I'll link it in the description as I always
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watching this is Aaron I'll see you next time