Is the iPhone X living up to all the hype? This customer doesn’t seem to think so
I bought Apple’s US$999 flagship smartphone eight months ago – and sometimes wish I hadn’t
This article was originally written by Matt Weinberger for Business Insider.
When I first got the iPhone X, I was over the moon. Now, over eight months in, I’m a little less excited.
I mean, it’s fine. You know? It’s fine. I'm not dying to sell it, nor am I going to revisit my brief urges to go to Android. It’s a pretty good phone.
It’s just that, well, for the US$999 I paid for it, I was expecting ... more, somehow. Every so often, I find myself wishing that I had saved myself a few hundred bucks and picked up the US$700 iPhone 8 instead. I don’t wish it enough that it’s worth the hassle of doing something about it, but I can’t seem to let go of this vague sense of disappointment.
To my mind, that reflects poorly on Apple. The company has been hyping up the iPhone X as the future of its flagship line of smartphones, to the extent that it’s said to be working on releasing two new versions of the device this September. Maybe those will fix my frustrations. Just as likely, they won’t.
Here’s what I like – and, more importantly, don’t like – about the iPhone X.
Okay, let’s start with the good stuff about the US$999 iPhone X to prove I’m not a total hater. My favourite part is probably the screen – it’s gorgeous. And because of the edge-to-edge design, the screen has more real estate than any other iPhone, including the bigger Plus models.
I’m not really bothered by the iPhone X notch either. To me, it’s a worthy compromise to get that giant screen.
