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- أبل آي فون X لديه أكبر،
تغيير الأجهزة سنة واحدة إذا ما قورنت
إلى أي فون الجيل الجديد الآخر على مدى العقد الماضي.
قضيت 30 يوما الماضية باستخدام الرائد أبل الجديد
والآن أنا هنا لتجلب لك تقييمي كامل.
لذا فإن السؤال الجوهري هو:
هو اي فون X يستحق وقتك، والاهتمام،
وفي نهاية المطاف، والمال الخاص؟
هذا ما أنا الهدف ستعمل على الإجابة الآن في هذا الفيديو.
ما يحدث، والتشكيلات التكنولوجيا؟
Andru إدواردز هنا، محرر العام للقوات المسلحة في GearLive.com.
إذا كانت هذه هي المرة الأولى هنا،
هذه القناة كل شيء عن الأدوات التقنية والألعاب،
حتى إذا كنت في هذا النوع من الاشياء،
لا تتردد في الضغط على زر الاشتراك الأسفل
جنبا إلى جنب مع رمز الإعلام الجرس،
لذلك أنت لا تفوت أية لقطات فيديو في المستقبل.
كما قلت، اليوم، نحن نتحدث عن اي فون أبل X.
This is the phone that's been getting all the buzz recently,
both positive and negative.
In this video, I'm gonna try to clarify some things.
I'm basically gonna tell you about what I like
about the phone, what I don't like about the phone,
but also I'm gonna mix in which features
about this phone that you'll also find
on the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus.
Since Apple released three new devices this year,
with a lot of features that are the same across the board,
you may actually be able to save yourself a nice chunk
of money if the features that matter to you the most
are available on one of Apple's cheaper smartphones.
Now before I jump in, as you've probably noticed,
I'm not in my typical video environment.
I'm actually here in Maui, Hawaii with Qualcomm
for the Qualcomm Tech Summit, and in fact,
I'm looking out the window of my hotel room,
staring at the Pacific Ocean, and in fact,
I will take a picture with the iPhone X
to give you a look at what I'm seeing right now
and I'll include this in the video as well.
This is my view right now so I'm a little bit distracted.
If I get distracted, I will have some friends of mine
that can jump in and take over in this video,
and like I said, let's jump into the features that I like,
starting with one of the most controversial
and one that I actually find to be an improvement,
and that is Face ID.
The iPhone X has an IR light, a dot projector,
and an IR camera all tucked into that notch
at the top of the screen.
What most people don't realize is that this is actually
like a miniaturized version of the Xbox Kinect.
That big, bulky camera that Microsoft used to sell
with the Xbox and Xbox One has now been shrunk down
and fits right into the iPhone itself.
When you wake the phone, the IR light goes off
and if the IR camera sees a face,
the dot projector flashes a pattern of 30,000 dots.
The camera then takes a 2D photo which gets turned
into a mathematical depth model.
It's sent to the authentication chip
and matched against the value that was already stored
when you set up Touch ID in the first place.
If it matches, the phone unlocks and you're in.
Setting up Face ID is super simple.
You follow the instructions on the screen,
you look at it and you simply make a circle with your nose.
Do that two times and Face ID is set up.
Much faster and easier to set up than Touch ID.
Face ID gets better with time as it notices you
over and over again.
If it makes a mistake and doesn't catch you
and asks for a passcode, as soon as you type that in,
it then stores the image that was taken
that failed and uses it as a success going forward.
As far as speed goes, Face ID works very quickly
and very well.
A lot of people have been saying now
that it's a two-step process, and that now you have to wait
for Face ID to activate, and then swipe up
to get into your phone, but you actually don't need
to do all that.
Instead. simply pick up your phone, turn the screen on,
and swipe up and pretend that Face ID doesn't even exist.
As soon as it authenticates, you'll be at your home screen,
and you'll only be asked for a passcode if there's a problem
with Face ID's authentication.
Similar to Touch ID, Face ID doesn't work every single time
but it works just about as often as Touch ID did.
I actually find it way more convenient to unlock my phone
than Touch ID because it's as if it's not even there,
the majority of the time.
Face ID is not just for unlocking your phone
though it's also used for passwords,
so if you have your password stored in your iCloud account,
anytime you go to a website or app that needs you to login
with a username and password, if it's already stored,
Face ID will automatically fill it in for you
without you having to do anything at all.
Face ID is so secure, in fact,
that it also works with Apple Pay.
If you haven't noticed, if you compare it
to facial unlock systems on other devices
like Android phones, you cannot authenticate
using your face, but with the iPhone X,
you can, due to the fact that Face ID is so secure.
Up next, we are talking about that big display.
Some people may not think it's that big
but it is an improvement over the previous iPhone models,
at least when it's compared to the iPhone 8.
A lot of people think since this is a 5.8 inch display
that it's bigger than the 5.5 inch display
on the iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 8 Plus, et cetera,
but in fact, there's less screen space on the iPhone X
than the previous Plus model smartphones.
Think of this as a taller version of the iPhone 8
or iPhone 7.
Similar to the jump in screen size
when Apple made the display taller
when it went from the iPhone 4S to the iPhone 5.
The iPhone X is Apple's first phone to use an OLED display
after years of Apple LCDs pretty much setting the standard
for the industry.
OLED displays allow for thinner phones,
but getting them to be color accurate
has always been a challenge.
Samsung phones tend to be a little oversaturated
to the point of almost appearing to be neon,
while Google's Pixel XL 2 has a bunch of issues
that we've talked about in the past,
with viewing angles, with muted colors, with color shifting,
and LG's new V30 even has problems
with uneven back lighting.
This is why Apple's been hesitant to jump to OLED
in the past, but here with the iPhone X,
they're finally able to make that jump.
Apple is using a 5.8 inch Samsung manufactured OLED display,
Which they say has been custom-designed for the iPhone X.
In fact, not only did we hear this from Apple
but I also heard this from Samsung themselves,
who said that this is an Apple-designed display
and that Samsung is just the manufacturer.
The display uses a diamond PenTile pixel layout,
which means every pixel on the screen shares red,
green, and blue subpixels with the pixels around it,
unlike the previous iPhone LCD screens
which have dedicated RGB subpixels in a stripe
for every single pixel on the screen.
Many people don't like PenTile displays
and I'm actually one of those people
but here it's hard to tell
that it's an actual PenTile display with the naked eye.
In fact, Apple's done so much custom anti-aliasing
and subpixel rendering to make the display
look a little better than typical Samsung PenTile OLEDs
and I think anyone who takes a look at the display
will agree that the effort was well worth it.
One of my favorite features of the display
is the True Tone feature that Apple has implemented here.
True Tone was one of my favorite features
on the iPad Pro 9.7 inch,
and also on the newer iPad Pro 10.5 inch.
I was hoping True Tone would come to the iPhone X
and we have it this year.
The iPhone X offers Dolby Vision HDR support
so iTunes movies mastered in HDR play with higher brightness
and more dynamic range.
You can also find these movies on services
like Netflix, and of course, typical regular HDR as well
is also supported on the display.
Is the iPhone's OLED display perfect?
No, it is not.
Every OLED display has some of color shift
when you view it off axis, and the iPhone X
has that same issue.
It is a pretty muted color shift but it is there.
If you look off axis, you'll see a slight blue tint
when holding the phone off angle.
A lot of people also asked about burn in.
The Google Pixel 2 XL seemed to be suffering
from burn in less than a week after people received it.
I've been using the iPhone X for, like I said,
just over a month and I have not noticed
any screen retention, any image retention,
any burn in at all.
Obviously, I can't talk for the future,
but here in the first month,
it hasn't been a problem at all.
And speaking of the display that is a display
that you're gonna want to protect.
This iPhone, in fact, is very fragile.
It's glass on front, glass on back,
and that gives me an opportunity to thank our sponsor
for this video, Tech21.
Tech21 makes cases and screen protectors
that will protect your device drop after drop.
Tech21 makes a scratch-resistant,
anti-glare screen protector
along with a bunch of cases.
They've got an assortment of cases,
most of which protect your phone from a 10-foot drop
but you can also opt for a thinner and lighter case
that will protect it from a 6.6-foot drop as well.
The cases look good and they're also the standard bearer
for protection.
You can pick up Tech21 cases at most major retailers
that sell smartphones, including T-Mobile.
I will leave a direct link to where you can buy Tech21 cases
on T-Mobile's website down in the description below.
The next feature I want to talk about here on the iPhone X
is the cameras.
The iPhone X has basically the same cameras
as the iPhone 8,
and the photos look almost exactly the same,
so if the cameras are important to you,
the rear cameras in particular,
if that's one of your major buying decisions,
know that you can get pretty much the same experience
on an iPhone 8 Plus and if you don't care
about the telephoto lens, you can pick up an iPhone 8
and save yourself several hundred dollars
off the cost of an iPhone X.
On the back of the iPhone X,
you're gonna find two optically stabilized,
12 megapixel cameras.
One with an F1.8 wide angle lens
and the other with an F2.4 telephoto lens.
This is an upgrade from the iPhone 8 Plus
which has an F2.8 non-stabilized telephoto lens.
That stabilized telephoto lens is great.
These are probably the best zoom photos
that I've ever taken on any smart phone,
and it's also amazing to be able to shoot in 4K
at a 6 time zoom, have that footage be nice and clear.
When taking photos,
the iPhone also has a new slow sync flash
that also does appear on the iPhone 8,
and it basically fills in the background a lot better
when taking the flash than it did in the past
where we just kind of light out up your subject
and leave the background dark.
The slow sync flash will actually light up
both the subject and background,
and it actually makes the flash much more usable,
although I still prefer to take pictures
with no flash at all.
The two cameras on the rear do allow
for the portrait mode which works as well
as portrait mode on the 8 Plus,
and also supports the new portrait lighting feature,
which is in beta,
where you can apply different lighting effects
to your photos in real-time.
In another difference from the iPhone 8 Plus, though,
the front camera also supports portrait mode
and portrait lighting.
That is where that notch comes back into play
which Apple calls the sensor housing.
That's what uses Face ID
but that's also where the front camera is stored.
Regular front camera photos do look similar
to what you'd find on the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus
but when you turn on the portrait mode,
you do get that blurry background,
and you have to make sure you're well-lit
in order to get it to work properly.
If you're in a low light situation,
you may find the edges of the subject
to come out a little soft,
and the iPhone will have a problem finding
where those edges are and what to blur and what not to blur.
It is a little odd and confusing
because the Google Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL
are able to take amazing front camera photos
in portrait mode with an almost perfectly blurred background
and it doesn't have all the physical hardware features
that the iPhone X has.
Instead it's using cloud processing to achieve the effect,
and it looks fantastic on the Pixel 2,
so hopefully, we see Apple improve the software here
in the front camera for the portrait mode selfies
to look even better.
Perhaps the most impressive thing about the camera to me,
though, is that it can shoot 1080p video
in 240 frames per second, which is crazy.
You're not gonna find that on any other smartphone
and it also shoots 4K video at 60 frames per second.
Again, not something you're gonna find
on any other smartphone, at least here at the end of 2017.
Both of those are very, very impressive feats
and if you're someone who takes a lot of video like I do,
it is something that you will appreciate
right out of the gate.
All right, it's nighttime right now.
I figured I'd try doing a video clip while walking.
Front camera right here,
so you're hearing the sound directly from the camera
as well as the picture.
All that noise is all these fountains back here.
Anyway, there you go, this is a look at the front camera
in pretty dim lighting.
Sundown is in, oh, sundown was about 7 1/2 minutes ago,
so you can see, it still captures pretty good.
Now I'm in some shadows and I'm walking through some trees
and you can see, it's capturing the trees,
capturing detail, still making sure
that my face is pretty well lit up.
Up next, in particular, I want to talk about feel
in the hand of the iPhone X.
I'm coming from an iPhone 8 Plus, 7 Plus,
6S Plus, and 6 Plus.
When Apple released its larger phones,
I went with the biggest phones they had
because I wanted the biggest screen they had,
and when they added that dual camera,
I wanted the best camera that they had.
However, as much as I liked the plus-size phones,
I hated how they felt in the hand.
I always felt that I was struggling to use them one-handed,
and missed the one-handed ability
that I had on my iPhone 5S,
but I didn't want to give up the better camera experience
and the larger screen.
Here with the iPhone X,
the problem is pretty much mitigated.
Now again, the screen does not have as much surface space
as the iPhone 8 Plus does, however, it's a larger screen,
a sharper screen, and I can use this device with one hand.
A large part of that is all the new gestures
that Apple built into the iPhone X.
Since it is an almost bezel-less display
with no home button at all,
it all now relies on swipe gestures.
Those swipe gestures are all optimized for one-handed use
and I think they work really well.
In fact, I prefer it over pressing a home button
and double tapping a home button, et cetera.
However, if you are someone who likes that home button,
and you're gonna miss the home button,
you may want to opt for an iPhone 8
or iPhone 8 Plus instead.
And by the way, those phones are just as powerful
as the iPhone X as far as the processor and the RAM goes.
The iPhone 8 Plus and the iPhone X are similar
in those specs, so if you're someone
who prefers a home button, you can buy an iPhone 8 Plus
and you won't be missing out on any speed.
Another feature I wanna touch on
that I think most people kind of ignore is the side button.
What used to be the power button
is now called the side button
and it sports multi-functionality,
so just pressing and tapping on it
will turn your display off and on.
Tapping and holding it will invoke Siri to allow you
to talk to Siri and I actually find Siri invocation
to be much better using the side button
than I ever did using the home button.
One-handed Siri is much easier
when you can just grip the iPhone X.
When compared to having to shimmy previous iPhones
in your hand, to press and hold a home button,
and awkwardly holding your phone,
hoping you wouldn't drop it because it's all off balance.
Now you just simply squeeze the side button
with your thumb and you're talking to Siri.
Again, the lack of a home button does mean you need
to use the side buttons a little more.
In order to use Apple Pay,
you simply double tap the side button,
and then authenticate with Face ID and Apple Pay
is ready to be used.
And if you want to take a screenshot,
you just squeeze the phone together,
you press the side button, and the volume up button
at the same time.
In order to power the phone down,
you can squeeze both the side button
and either one of the volume buttons,
hold them down until you get your reset menu.
So again, the side button mixed with gestures
is my preferred way of navigating iOS.
Apple gets a big thumbs up from me
because this is a lot easier for me to use,
preferred method, than using the old home button style.
Up next, let's talk about the speaker experience,
the sound experience of the iPhone X.
I think it is fantastic.
It is the second loudest smartphone
on the market right now, behind the RAZR phone.
The speaker sounds fantastic.
One of my favorite tests to do
when I'm testing smartphone speakers
is to choose a song with a lot of range,
start playing the song, close my eyes,
hold the fold in front of me,
and basically, take in the song and see if I can hear
all the stereo sound and how wide that soundstage sounds.
And on the iPhone X it passes that test with flying colors.
You get stereo sound, you get one speaker
in the earpiece, which actually functions
as a loudspeaker as well, and there's a second speaker
at the bottom of the device.
So again, stereo sound coming out of the iPhone X
and the speakers are loud.
They have bass, they have good treble, good mid-range.
I do not think they're better than the speakers found
on the RAZR phone, but those are bigger, dedicated speakers,
but for a smartphone like this, as thin as the iPhone X,
with as small speakers as you see,
at least externally on the iPhone X,
I never expected the speakers to be this good.
The iPhone X speakers are so good, in fact,
that I think they're just as good
as buying an inexpensive external Bluetooth speaker.
Instead, you can just use the phone itself.
Okay, you might be asking me what about the big feature?
What about the future everybody is talking about?
Why haven't you yet started telling us about Animoji?
Well, Animoji is one of the most popular features
of the iPhone X.
Not for me personally.
I do think they're funny, I do think they're cute,
I do think people have used them
in some pretty creative ways, but it's not something
that I use on a daily basis.
However, they're cool.
They're not something that's gonna sell the phone,
but they are something that's gonna delight people
who buy the phone.
If you're unaware, what you've been watching in this video
are the Animoji.
I've been using different Animoji
to go through all my thoughts on the iPhone X here
in this video.
Animoji are Apple's animated emoji characters.
It's basically built in machinima right for your iPhone.
Most importantly, they work and they work well.
They do facial tracking with muscle movement.
They track your head, they track your eyes,
they track your mouth, they track the muscles in your face,
and they map it out in such a way
that it hides the difficulty of doing this.
This isn't easy.
It's not something that we've seen before
and Apple does a good job just making it fun
and making it just work without any fuss.
Animoji works by using the front camera
in conjunction with the True Depth sensor.
Some people are saying that it just uses the camera.
Apple says that's not true.
It does also use the True Depth IR sensor
for some of the Animoji functionality.
One other thing about Animoji
is that they are not iOS only.
You can send them to other iOS users.
You can send them to iPhone X users,
you can send them to anyone using any previous iPhone
that's not the iPhone X, and even Android users
can see them as well because Apple will just turn them
into a movie file and send them to anybody
in your contact list.
Up next, let's talk about a couple of new features
on the iPhone X that also do appear on the iPhone 8
and iPhone 8 Plus.
Again, if these are features that are important to you,
you may want to consider a cheaper smartphone from Apple.
You do not need an iPhone X to enjoy these.
The first one is wireless charging.
Since the iPhone X has a glass back
instead of the aluminum metal back,
it now supports wireless charging using the Qi standard
so any Qi wireless charger will work.
Apple specifically has mentioned one charger
from Belkin and another charger from Mophie.
You can pick up those chargers and use them,
but you don't have to use those two brands.
You can use any brand Qi charger out there,
and it should work with your iPhone X.
However, the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus also have the glass back,
and they also support wireless charging,
so again, you do not need to pick up an iPhone X
if wireless charging is important to you
when deciding on your next iPhone.
Another similar feature is the IP67 water resistance.
I'm a big fan of water resistance on smartphones
and as we've seen, some flagships recently have not shipped
with water resistance.
Apple has been shipping with water resistance
since the release of the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus.
You get that same water resistance on the 8 and 8 Plus
and the 10, but if that's something you're considering
in your next smartphone purchase,
you do not need an iPhone X
in order to have water resistance on an iPhone device,
but if the iPhone X is something you're considering,
do know that it is IP67-rated,
which means it can be submerged in up to a meter of water
for 30 minutes without suffering any damage.
And the last feature I want to touch on here
that I think is relevant when discussing the iPhone X,
and this is actually number 10 on my top 10 features.
It is the new design itself.
What you've got here is a sandwich of what Apple says
is the most durable glass they've ever used
in a smartphone, with a surgical grade steel band
connecting the two pieces of glass.
Now when Apple sends us the most durable glass
they've ever used in a smartphone, I'm gonna believe them.
I don't see any reason why they'd say that
if it wasn't true, however, you should not be tricked
into thinking that if you drop this phone,
that it's just not gonna break.
Glass versus concrete, concrete is gonna win,
probably 95% of the time.
So again, if you happen to be clumsy,
if you have slippery fingers, slippery hands, or you work
in an environment where you may drop your phone,
be sure to grab a protective case.
Again, link to the Tech21 cases
down in the description below.
On the left side of the device,
you're gonna find the volume up and volume down button
along with the mute switch, and on the other side,
over on the right, is that side button
that I talked about earlier.
Some people are going to argue with the notch
on the display.
That is what some people think looks like absolute crap.
Some people do not like the fact that the notch
comes down, the sensor housing comes down into the display
and that the display curves around this.
They would have much rather have had it be a complete bar
at the top or black out the display
to make it a more uniform look.
I personally find, and you've heard this
from a lot of other people as well.
I thought it would be distracting but it's not something
you really notice after you start using the phone.
Unless you're holding the phone horizontally
and watching video in full-screen mode
or playing a game that fills the screen,
then it's more noticeable but when using the phone,
95% of the time, that sensor housing
doesn't get in my way, personally.
So there you have it guys.
That was your look at Apple's latest flagship,
the iPhone X.
The biggest departure in any single year iPhone release.
Big jump here in the design of this phone.
You can pick up the iPhone X right now.
It starts at $999.
That's for a 64 gigabyte version
and it's available in both silver,
which is really kind of like a white
with silver accents, and it's also available
in space gray as well.
If 64 gigabytes is not enough for you,
you can also opt for a 256 gigabyte version.
That sells for $1,149 and is available
in the same two colors, silver and space gray.
Here at the end of 2017, you have a lot of great options
when it comes to which smartphone you're gonna buy.
The iPhone X, I think, is a great device.
The iPhone 8 and 8 Plus save you some money
and bring you a lot of feature parity.
You've got the Google Pixel 2 which I think
is one of the best phones of the year.
Definitely, best camera on that phone.
Don't forget about Samsung's Galaxy Note 8.
If the stylus and dual camera is something
that's important to you, if it's not,
the Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus are fantastic phones as well.
And if you want to save yourself even more money
and don't care about all of the top-tier flagship features,
be sure to check out the OnePlus 5T.
Again, so many great smartphones here at the end
of the year.
It's crazy how fast phones are innovating right now.
But I want to hear from you.
What phones have you guys picked?
Did you pick the iPhone X?
Did you pick a different phone?
Comment down below and let me know.
I'll meet you down there for further discussion.
Fan boys, if you're gonna start flaming people,
every iPhone review video that I do
starts picking up fan boys.
People who say that I'm paid by Apple to say nice things.
People who say, in the same video,
that I'm paid by Samsung to not say nice things.
I try to give you a fair and balanced look at this device.
Let me know what you think, though, in the comments below.
I'll meet you there for further discussion like I said.
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Thanks so much for watching.
As always, guys, I appreciate your support.
I gotta get back down to the beach here in Maui.
I'm Andru Edwards and I'll catch you in the next video.
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