Thanks to Nucleum by Kingston for sponsoring this video. It's been almost
exactly two months since the iPhone 10 came out and during that time I'm
using it on and off as my daily driver, at least one of the two phones that I'm
carrying. My opinions and thoughts on the device have changed a little bit
since my initial review so I figured let's revisit the iPhone X.
So the big thing for me in my review I said I was gonna go case free, I was
gonna opt for AppleCare and if I broke it or dropped it I was gonna bite the
bullet pay the fee and fix it. Then I dropped my phone without a case on to
carpet and I got a little bit scared so I did put a case on my phone. It's just
the Apple silicon case in black. I still wish I could not have a case on it but I
am way too paranoid and I got too many kids in my house to do it. I love the way
the phone feels but it's certainly fragile. When it dropped even on carpet
the sides still ended up getting a little bit scratched. That was a bit of a
bummer. The phone is not appear to be as durable as Apple is saying. They're
claiming it's the strongest glass ever on a phone but there is no way I am
going to test that. One of the things about the device that seems to have
gotten worse over time, and was ever great to begin with, was battery life. In
fact, in the office here we have seven different iPhones and four of the people have said
to experience the same thing. Battery life is not great on the iPhone X. I
don't know, I don't want to pile on to Apple's battery issue that have been going on right
now but it seems that it's worse than when I initially start testing the
device. Generally my usage on any iPhone or any phone I can get through a full
day without any problem. With my iPhone 10 generally I'm at 20% or lower by end
of the day and sometimes I have to plan on charging to get through it and I'm not
even doing crazy usage. The battery life has not been outstanding
with the iPhone X. I've also noticed some fit and finishes use with the
iPhone, this might be unique to mine but one of my screws on the bottom for example
isn't fully screwed. It's kind of rough when I touch it. Something I've
never experienced on any other Apple devices so maybe it's small issue at the
iPhone X maybe it's just mine, but little things like that certainly you
notice as you use the phone more and more. When the phone launched I had two big
concerns. The first was that notch being really annoying, in fact I don't notice
it anymore at all. It was a bit of annoying when I first started watching
full screen video when I first are testing the device the more I use it
honestly I don't notice it at all. I don't think you will either. If that's
something that's holding you back from buying the iPhone I wouldn't worry about
it. Then face ID, so we did a lot of tests on it and faced ideas works pretty
well actually. It's worked pretty well in almost all situations for me. My wife has
thick sunglasses and she has an iPhone 10 and for some reason
it won't work through her sunglasses. So it works as advertised for a lot of
people but I wish there are some redundancies. Look at what Samsung has
with their Galaxy line, you've got iris scanning, you've got face scanning, you got a fingerprint
sensor. I wish there was something like that that worked, have different options
and layers to sort of make your phone unlock. It's a mind-boggling to me if
you're wearing an Apple watch, it won't automatically let you know your phone is
safe to be unlocked. It still has to see your face. Or even something other things
that Android has, if you're on a Wi-Fi network that you label that secure it'll
unlock. Or, if you want to use geolocation when a particular area phone should
unlock. I wish those things were baked in to iOS to give you some sort of
redundancy to unlock your phone. If you're laying in bed on the side for
example it's not going to see your face. It's not a giant issue and face id
worked as well as I could have expected but I'd like to have some sort of other
option at least a face ID wasn't working a particular situation. One opinion that
hasn't changed is the camera. The rear cameras on these things are absolute
incredible. Portrait mode is great, portrait lighting has actually improved
since my initial testing. It's still not great but the camera itself the pictures
look incredible in any situation whether it's low-light whether it's normal light
whether it's almost in the dark. The pictures here look absolutely beautiful.
One thing that was surprising to me when I bought the phone I thought I needed
the bigger storage. I figured I have a giant photo library, it's like 16 gigs or
something, but for the first time in a while I set my iPhone 10 out from
scratch. Apple's got a lot of new file systems here new file management.
Pictures are stored in the cloud with this new phone setup from scratch I am
using less than 20 gigs of storage. If you're looking to maybe save some money
from already a really expensive phone I think the smaller storage opt is gonna
be fine for a lot of people and if you're worried about storage on your previous
device try setting it up from scratch. You might be really surprised how much space
do you actually have on your phone. This next one's kind of weird. I love
wireless charging and I've hoping wireless charging was gonna come to Apple for a
while. I know some of you guys don't care about it but for me it's a convenience
that I really like about the phone. Apple's got an issue with the wireless
charging. Whenever I wirelessly charge my phone at night I turn it off. So I put
it on the charger let it start charging and then without moving it I'll turn the
phone off. Usually almost every other phone I've tested will
charge overnight. I'll take it off, I'll turn it on, and it's fully juiced up. The
iPhone will turn on at some point during the night, no matter what and it's not
just my phone. It happens to my wife's phone as well. We tested it here in the office,
we've tested with four different wireless chargers, and for some reason at
some points the phone will turn back on which is really annoying. I like to turn
my phone off at night, I get notifications throughout the entire night. I can
obviously put it into nighttime mode or Do Not Disturb
but I've opted now just to plug my phone in. I don't even use wireless charging so
for me that's been a bummer I don't like that my phone turns on at night it might
not matter for you but that's something that's really been an issue at least
personally. A lot of stuff was new at the iPhone X, one of the big ones was gestures
and there was a definitely a learning curve getting used to it.
Now two months in I feel really used to the new gestures and they feel like
second nature to me. In fact I went back to an older iPhone and it felt weird
double tapping the home button so I kind of gotten very used to it. It's a really
elegant way to use the phone and to navigate around it so if you're worried
about the gestures don't. This video wouldn't be possible without Nucleum.
This is one of those product we've actually been using a ton in the office
it's super helpful if using one of the new MacBook or MacBook Pros since it adds
seven extra ports including two USB A two USB C ports SD card reader and way more.
Most importantly you can use all the ports at once and actually the color matches with
the MacBooks and iMacs that support USB type-c. It's an awesome accessory.
If you've got one those laptops, definitely pick one up. If you want to
learn more link to it down below. So overall I've really enjoyed the iPhone
10. I loved a new screen. I wish a battery life lasted longer but minor quibbles
aside and certainly the gigantic price point aside it's been a really good
phone. It's really the best iPhone Apple's ever made as you'd expect from
the most recent iPhone Apple has ever made. Have your experiences changed?
Did you buy it when the phone came out? Let us know down below. Are you holding
out from my buying one for whatever reason, again let us know. Of course subscribe, hit
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versus videos coming. Hope you guys enjoyed. Until next time, I'm Jon
Rettinger from TechnoBuffalo