yeah i know my video's late because i didn't get an
iphone 10 until d brand actually bought one skinned it and shipped it to me but
unlike some people i'm not going to make a big salty song and dance out of it
because frankly if i was apple i probably wouldn't feel like spending the
thousand dollars or even 370 dollars to
hear what i'm about to say about their latest and greatest either
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now if the iphone 8 and the 8 plus are fraternal twins then the 10 is kind of
like the love child from that brief but intense affair that everyone knows mom
had but that no one talks about unless uncle gordon's had too much to drink
apple reused almost every major internal
component making the 10 with its beefy battery three gigs of RAM and dual rear
camera system something familiar kind of like a plus in a regular sized body and
yet something totally different because as i fix it revealed in their fantastic
tear down to achieve this spectacular
density they actually went back to a technique so old we haven't seen it
since the original iphone a dual pcb
internal layout that in another creative move uses dual lithium ion batteries for
maximum density but while in some ways physically the 10 is
what i've been asking out before for years
less concerned with reducing thickness and weight and more with increasing
battery life and features like wireless charging this comes at the cost of it
feeling well kind of heavy and thick
to be clear i still vastly prefer the form factor of the 10 compared to the 8
plus its size makes it much easier to hold on to even if it's slim bezels mean
an accidental drop is more likely to be fatal
it's just that the slight increase in unwieldiness compared to the 8 is
compounded by the 10's unfamiliar new gesture based controls
before i get to those though let's talk about the screen
i am sorely disappointed that my 120
hertz prediction didn't come true but otherwise it's everything that you could
hope for from a top of the line phone in 2017. apple took the best mobile OLED
screen technology on the market from samsung and tuned it to damn near
perfection it's the brightest OLED i've ever seen making for the best direct
sunlight viewing experience that i've seen yet and the best rendering of HDR
content that i've seen yet and the ultra tall or
ultra wide depending on how you look at it aspect ratio combined with the stereo
bottom firing and earpiece speaker combo makes it great for watching cinema
aspect ratio content like movie
is what i would say if it weren't for the notch
now for the vast majority of the content that you'll find on youtube or netflix
it and the rounded bottom corners will end
up cut off by pillar boxes but in movies
it is a literal black mark on what is otherwise the standard by which mobile
displays can be measured and while it's far less obnoxious i did
also notice it in day-to-day use a lot of people might not care about
something like this but there's no room at the top anymore for your battery
percent or your vpn connectivity status
requiring a swipe down from the top right to bring up the control center
blah so what do we get in return then in
tech enthusiast terms we get a marvelously densely packed not to
mention incredibly sophisticated array of sensors emitters and cameras that had
me hardcore nerding out but everyone else just calls it face id
without getting into the theoretically reduced security i mean no one that i
know was able to unlock my phone here's what it does really well
downloading apps buying stuff or logging into websites is in a word
amazing it worked nearly flawlessly
across all manner of challenging conditions from cold days where you
don't feel like taking off your gloves to touch to bright sunlight to pitch
blackness and even with a kid in my arms or a toothbrush hanging out of my mouth
and the feature that hides the details of your notifications until it
recognizes you is a biometric authentication game changer okay cool
now here's what's less awesome because the 10 only auto wakes when it's right
side up and has no obvious landmarks
when the screen is off like an always-on clock for example and because it
requires a swipe after it identifies you
i often found that it took me longer to unlock the 10 when i wanted to use my
phone face id to be clear is much better
than samsung's iris scanner across the board but it still requires a special
dance move to do something on your phone while it's sitting on the desk or table
next to you and back to that notification hiding thing i really wish
that it was a little bit faster like i've been using my old iphone 6 as an
mp3 player lately and man
i forgot how much worse first gen touch
id was and how much better fast biometrics are compared to just having
them at all all right fine then apple a notch in the
display for unlocking with wet hands
okay i can wait a little longer for you to put all this stuff behind the panel
and besides the notch actually bothered me far less than the interface and
navigation changes that were necessitated by the tens lack of a home
button all the new gestures are easy to remember and felt natural within minutes
to the point where i actually found myself swiping up on other devices
but multiple aspects of the new control scheme are marginally slower reinforcing
my belief that apple is either run by or caters to people who just
don't have a lot to do these people i assume have all the time
in the world to type names into their address book like a cave person instead
of using t9 dialing interact with their touch screen however
little it might be to quick launch their camera instead of double tapping a
hardware button they have time to pause mid gesture to wait for multitasking to
show up instead of pressing one button though the slide to the right is quite a
bit better they have time to hold
then swipe or reach to the top of the screen to force close a frozen app and
finally and yes i'm repeating this one they don't mind swiping their screen
every time they unlock their phone
now i'm not saying that apple did nothing right here control center from
the top right is much more reliable now that it no longer gets confused by the
on-screen keyboard and on that subject the dictation button under the on-screen
keyboard is super convenient which wait a second under the keyboard
leave it to apple to figure out the most obvious stuff that everyone else missed
i've been complaining for years that on devices with small chin bars it's harder
to touch type and they just went and put a space in there brilliant anyway in fairness to
apple the navigation isn't terrible it's just also not as advertised it's
not like a quantum leap forward in the way that i interact my phone and if
anything it makes me miss the Android back button even more than i normally do
on iOS not less now i'm not going to spend a ton of time on the camera or
animojis other than to say that if you like the excellent eight plus camera
and if you're a portrait mode focus fiend you'll like the tens camera and
that until apple allows animojis to be recorded and sent as video clips in
third-party chat apps easily i will be even less inclined to create awkward
moments in public than i already am so that brings me then to my conclusion
the original iphone was first gen execution of a brilliant idea and the
device that was created to celebrate its 10-year anniversary is brilliant
execution of what feels like a gen idea it really
seems to me like apple was trying really hard to make an innovative device then
make you like whatever they ended up with rather than looking forward to what
people wanted to do in their lives and building a solution around that an
approach that probably would have involved some more investment in siri so
bottom line then the iphone 10 is what it took to make me more excited about
the 8 and the 8 plus and ultimately
go back to the s8 so that i can stop carrying around this stupid bag of
headphone dongles
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