The next generation iPhone is here! Man, I was like
OMG. I need to go line up to get one since I can do- ha ha no, I'm just kidding
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And, uh-
Don't take this the wrong way, but it is undignified
to stand around in front of a store like a sucker waiting for the privilege to buy a new gadget
I mean ok yeah, but if it's like a super cool gadget, then it's totally different
the iPhone 8 and the iPhone 8 plus
Just aren't that cool, which is what I'm going to talk about
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TLDR, Apple's A talent was busy making the iPhone 10
I mean-
It's not like the engineers haven't been doing things over the last couple of years
Both the eight and the eight plus are packing the all-new six core A11 processor
They have Apple's first-ever in-house designed GPU-
incredible accomplishment by the way
And they've got more storage on the base models than ever before, not to mention
Here is where my iPhone 6's screen buckled-yes
I actually had it happen while I was carrying it around for mp3 player duties in my backpack, and
that is totally not a thing anymore
Apple's design team on the other hand has clearly had other priorities. I mean you are not gonna
Tell me that they spent a year deciding to get rid of my favourite colour, are you?
No, you're not
So in a nutshell then the iPhone 8 and 8 plus are what Apple would normally call a 7s
No sexy new form factor. Just updated guts and
some features like a
revolutionary glass back for Chi wireless charging- Man, do they really think our memories are that short?
Anyway,
Basically, I'm not gonna spend a ton of time on the hardware other than to say that most people
Didn't really need a 7s
The battery did last longer for me than my seven but aside from edge case workloads like video encoding
Most people would be very hard-pressed to notice a speed difference between a seven and an eight
Even comparing them side by side you can only see the difference in loading times for quite large apps
And it's just not
Feelable in day-to-day use. The camera system is better though
Selfies seem to be a bit of a side grade rather than an upgrade but as for the rear 12 megapixel shooter
It's got even more frames per second in slow motion
Which is cool if you're into that kind of stuff and in low-light the viewfinder is much smoother. Thanks probably to the faster processor
On the subject of low light in this low light shot
You can see that it retained more detail in the brushed finish of the Logitech logo on my keyboard
Compared to the seven and in this high contrast shot with direct sunlight and very hard shadows the improved
resolution is very obvious in the chain around the cat's neck, and
from having been there in person the colouration is more true to life, so they get kudos for that
The display also got an upgrade
It's still LCD with wide colour gamut support- not OLED like the 10[X],
but it's more better, and it's got this true tone mode
That's supposed to adapt to ambient lighting conditions to look more natural
but from my experience just made the screen look dingy and yellow all the time- And
this is kind of a curious one- they added support for HDR video content even though Apple
Specifically says that it is not an HDR display
So it appears that on Netflix, anyway the new iPhone takes the HDR 10 or Dolby vision
Encoded stream then like backwards converts it to
this display
Why they would do that is inexplicable to me-
But, in terms of results it ends up looking subjectively better in some cases and worse in others
one thing that I'll say
was
Different for me this time around with the iPhone is that I spent a lot more time with the Plus model than I have in
The past I still don't like the form factor
it's just too big for me, but the way that some apps utilize the extra screen space iPad style and the
spectacular battery life are
Fairly compelling selling points even if I'm not too keen on the dual lens camera fake bokeh
really doesn't do much for me and
Like the note 8 the telephoto camera is so much
Softer that it doesn't look that much better to me than a digital punch in on the wide-angle lens
So, that's it- the new iPhone everyone
It's a bit of a non-story and
Appears to just be Apple's strategy to keep overall unit sales from dropping while OLED panel Supply is too tight to produce all the iPhone
10[X]s that they need
So why is this video still going? I'll tell you why because iOS 11 is
Flippin awesome, and I want to talk about that now. I don't actually remember the last time that I really
Noticed a software update like this
Going into this video. I watched Apple's keynote, but I'm gonna ignore the headline stuff like
Augmented reality 's ,TLDR. It's neat, but call me in a year when the apps are a lot better
And I'm gonna ignore anything that I found in a comprehensive list of all the new features all the stuff
I'm gonna mention now I found
naturally while using the device completely
intuitively the way, it's supposed to be
Control center is now a single
customizable page with media controls and
Networking controls built in and this super intuitive forced Touch integration that makes it just so
Deliciously functional it even finally has a quick access button for mobile hotspot whoo ,so the only thing missing
There is a hard press on the Wi-Fi icon to see nearby networks and connect to them and maybe a VPN toggle
I'm
Psyched on the built-in screen record functionality my local radio hosts were especially fixated on this one apparently they were excited that you could record
Snapchats or something I don't know anything about that
But it'll definitely make doing these reviews a lot easier the end
Dictation button has been relocated a couple of centimetres to the right making it easier to stop it when you're holding your phone in one hand.
Haptic feedback when starting and stopping recording in the camera app is a godsend though at this time
I don't know if this feature is actually getting ported to older phones
It's not doing it on the iPhone 7 the new Quick Start feature is
Amazing letting you set up your new iPhone with the old one just by moving them close to each other
It should be noted that probably for security reasons. It doesn't carry over third-party credentials
But weirdly Twitter actually worked for a few minutes before prompting me to re-enter my password ,anyway
it did save me a fair bit of time and
screenshot management is so much better with cropping, markup, sharing and
Discarding of screenshots whose only use was to show them to someone else all handled on one screen. There are some things
I'd still like to see changed sure like volume adjustment for ringer
notifications and media playback
Still isn't intuitively separated like it is on Android
I don't consider enabling Apple pay to be an integral part of setting up the phone so go away
Obnoxious red marker and finally how is it even possible?
That we're still not allowed to rearrange icons on the home screen to our heart's content
but
Overall as someone who already liked iOS and Android pretty well equally it went
far further than I expected to the point where Oreo has its work cut out for it so I
Really like this phone. I am back on iOS for now
Even if I still use wired headphones like a caveman, and I don't prefer the extra baggage
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