I have a Galaxy S9+ with a defective front camera, it has trouble focusing. I should've replaced it within the 15 days return timeframe but I missed that point and now I have to send it in for repair. The nearest Samsung authorized repair centre is 30 minutes away by car, and I don't know how long the repair would take.
So I was thinking I could just upgrade to the iPhone X instead. I haven't used an Apple device in 6 years so I feel like it's time to give them a chance again. I've realized I don't even use that much customization on my Galaxy S9+. >don't use microSD >no headphone jack doesn't matter since I don't listen to music that much. just use lightning earpods outdoors and use the dongle at home. >the notch I'll probably get used to
What do you like about the iPhone X? What do you miss from Android?
>realworldtech That sounds like an alt-right website, I'm not clicking.
My mom doesn't want to drive me there and I don't want to spend 50 minutes bussing there.
Zachary Evans
Geekbench are microbenches that are cache perfect so stuff like branch prediction gets tossed out the window. Compare it against a real workload like the 3D mark offscreen physics. Apple still does well but not like 2x better
Dylan Adams
It's a post by Linus Torvalds you fucking imbecile.
Brayden Clark
And you're saying he's not part of the alt-right movement? Retard.
Blake Jones
you mean a phone can trigger autists on here? that sounds worth it.
Ryder Wood
>The principal developer of the Linux kernel is now the leader of the alt right oooooooooook there buddy. Keep yelling in your retarded echo chamber. Thread saged and hidden
Wyatt Wright
I haven't used an Android device in a near decade. I upgraded from my 5 year old 5S to my X and im liking it. Nothing bad imo but I'm not some a Jow Forums tard who needs my phone to be a mini computer
Robert Perry
Oh I see what you mean now. I thought you meant Linus Tech Tips
William Nguyen
I'll miss the simplicity of torrenting music directly from my phone, but I still have my laptop for that.
Henry Evans
I don't torrent on my phone so thats no issue for me. You also need VLC to play webms but again, not a big deal as I rarely open them up on my phone. I was using a friend's S8 a couple months back and it was lagging. Can't fuck with android phones (or samsung atleast) until they get that shit sorted.
Noah Sullivan
Yeah android phones lag after 6 months to a year. Had to upgrade from my S8+ because of that.
Brody Johnson
>downgrading not worth it.
Gavin Thompson
I was a long-time iPhone user and switched from 6S to S8. Had the Galaxy for ~9 months until I made the mistake of switching back to the iPhone X. iOS just feels so clunky and restricted, now that I've set foot on the other side. Notifications are a mess, low ppi screen, no real multitasking, no file management, etc. FaceID is a pain; felt like an idiot raising my phone and trying to unlock it in public.
Last straw - one day I was attempting to sync some documents via iTunes but needed to get an app compatible w/ the file extension. I suddenly thought to myself...what the hell am I doing? No idea why I was going through that headache again.
Luckily I was still in the return window. Got rid of it and picked up the S9+ this week. Life is good again.
Jace Martin
Only poor people hate the iPhone X.
Jeremiah Jones
Why on earth would you ever buy an apple product?
Brayden Torres
It's been 6 years without an Apple product, why not?
Nathaniel Martinez
because apple is a terrible company and you could probably just get your phone sent in under warranty?
They just sued a third party repairman because he was getting his refurbished displays from China, they lost thankfully.
Get my phone sent in and what, spend a few weeks without my phone? Fuck that
Angel Flores
user, i have the x. it's nice. faceid is kinda slow compared to touchid and it can be pretty annoying sometimes, the notch is literally a non issue. it disappears within the first day of using the phone. if you have the money, why not get it.
Jaxson Torres
>30 min drive >1000$ Nigga do you have to much money or something?
John Garcia
Provided you're going to Samsung Service Center, they can usually fix a front camera within an hour.
Charles Myers
>They just sued a third party repairman because he was getting his refurbished displays from China, they lost thankfully. The screens the repair places here use aren't Retina. It's like looking through fly-wire.
Ryder Young
Apple is also preventing people from replacing their screens with the same model screen from a different iphone
I unironically miss touch id, face id is nice, but I’d prefer both.
Robert Perez
So you'd rather pay $1000+ dollars to get a worse phone than get the phone you already own fixed for free?
Maybe an iphone is more your speed afterall, champ.
Joseph Price
Spending that much money on a fucking phone that you will either drop or have it stolen.
Isaiah Stewart
>mommy won't drop me off at the repair center >wana ditch this new phone and buy a brick of crap for 1000$ >i can't spend a week with a dumbphone, retard OP is a spoiled brat, perfect fit for an Iphone.
Landon Bailey
>Buying premium phones when mid range is half the price and just as good
Michael Thomas
>it's another daily itoddler pretending to be and android user to shill his gay toddler toys episode Reminder to report, sage and hide.
Jaxon Foster
I think the appropriate action would be to kill yourself. It is obvious you are not fit to think for yourself.
Michael Bennett
>>Linus Torvalds >Linus Tech Tips aboslute tech illiterate here
Xavier Ross
I have an iPhone X.
The notch shaming is a meme. It disappears the day you buy it. When you think about it, I’d rather have the notch and the upper periphs on either side, because you do still get that much more usable real estate. Face ID works great every time. At first, it struggles in the dark (not low light, dark) but as it learns it gets much better. The gestures are fantastic, I don’t miss the button. The headphones that come with it are “good enough” tier, and if you care about a jack, get an adapter or wireless headphones. Battery life is really good, and I use my phone a lot. Don’t miss android. Happy to answer any questions.
Ayden Nelson
>I shill inferior botnet poorfag phones because I get paid rupees by the post
Just remove the front camera or make it flip up or in from the side so I can have a larger display if you're going bezeless.
Cooper Campbell
These are the kinds of threads that make me torn on the issue of getting a new phone. I'm a fucking faggot that already owns other kinds of Apple hardware, so an iPhone makes sense to keep everything in sync between my devices. The S9+ is objectively the dream right now in terms of hardware, but it's a bloated Samsung android, which is a nightmare to get to sync on a Mac, I've once spent an entire day trying to make a coworkers phone become visible to the system, whereas on Wangblows you just plug it in and that's it. If the S9 ran iOS, there would be no question about what to get.
Chase Morales
>macshit Found your problem.
Anthony James
Ios is a fucking dumpster fire. Just like everything else apple shits into appletards' mouths.
Not sure how it would be an upgrade per say but it's a nice phone. Not worth the money however when you consider the point of difference between this and say an iPhone 7. The big selling point for me when I switched from my iPhone 5s was the battery. The 7 battery sucks whereas the X is the best among the iPhone's apart from the plus models.
Angel Roberts
>The nearest Samsung authorized repair centre is 30 minutes away by car, and I don't know how long the repair would take. Use your phone and call them.
he says while accepting googles hyperfeminism and censorship on youtube and the web in general
Adam Peterson
I often switch back and forth every year or two. This year I got S8 plus. If you disable all the Samsung garbage it's a pretty good phone. Otherwise I would still take an iPhone X+ over this any day. Most things apart from notifications are just more pleasant on iOS.
Matthew Sullivan
good goy
David Howard
Yeah, it is a problem, but one I'm too deep in to just stop sucking Apple's dick unless I up and replace all the hardware I own. Something I wouldn't be against doing if I could.
Juan Richardson
I clearly said: >the X is the best among the iPhone's apart from the plus models
You fucking retard. Learn to read.
Josiah Brown
Apple (evil scumbags who will do everything they can to con you out of money) or Google (evil scumbags who will do everything they can to absorb all your personal data). Pick your poison, lads.
I have an 8+. Only things I miss about Android are the non-shitty notification banners (OTOH I definitely do not miss the notification icon spam in the status bar) and the fact my car uses Android Auto rather than Carplay.
Jaxson Morris
What's the point of a MORE PWERED CPU. It's not like that you will edit your 8k videos on your phone. Every. Single. Day. It just eats your battery. For the most of the time (like 99%) you won't need that processing power at all
Jackson Wilson
Itll be a strong contender if it was actually 1000 dollar here The s9 plus is 1k and the iphone x 64 gb is 1.2k
Nicholas Baker
I can make more money, but I can't manufacture more privacy out of thin air. I'll take the devil I pay over the devil I don't.
Joshua Gomez
It's good man, ignore the shills
Kayden Peterson
I tried it in store and was pretty impressed by the gesture navigation
Aaron Hill
Me too, my current phone is the 6 and I stopped by the local shop today to mainly see what the difference is between the 8+ and X. The capacitive home button feels really weird to use since I was used to just tapping the button to go home, but here you actually have to forcibly push into it, this makes swiping up a lot better by comparison. However, since the swipe up action now opens the switch screen, to actually close a program you need to hold until the red minus appears. If there's another way, I haven't discovered it, and judging by the all the apps that were running on the X, most other visitors didn't either.
Other notes: Notch was essentially non-existent. Strange how something that sticks out in images online basically doesn't matter when in hand. The plus models can display the home screen in portrait, and it's a shame the X doesn't, it's something I was sorely missing on the 6. The red color looks pretty fucking rad, once again, too bad that the X doesn't have it.
All in all, the X feels better to use, even if I do have spatula hands that let me handle a plus just fine, while the 8+ edges it out with having landscape and slightly larger screen. Kinda torn between the two.
Jose Long
>this phone is two months older and thus inherently worse in all ways the STATE of consumers
Daniel Moore
Biggest difference between the 8 plus and x is the price of course
Brody Campbell
it's more than 2 months old
Luke Brooks
This website isn't for you. I'd suggest
Zachary Ramirez
Remember to report, sage, and call the cops everyone
Eli Price
With that money you might as well buy a camera retard
Juan Powell
B-but phones are more convenient!
Adam Wilson
I'm not into photography retard
I'm asking both reddit and Jow Forums for a reason
Jose Nguyen
Fuck off and die. Stab a knife into your neck you fucking inbred
James Watson
wow that's rude user. i'm glad i go on reddit so i never have to see these kinds of posts.
Asher Cook
My dad has an iphone x that his sister paid for and his phone keeps fucking up. He would have text overlapping all a lot of apps no matter the test size he chooses. The phone would lock up and he would have to hard restart the phone at lease once a week. The phone would also have problems with touch screen precision. The grass is always greener on the other side OP.
Easton Adams
why not just go to the apple store and get him a replacemnt user?
Xavier King
Because you're a dumb nigger
Luke Gray
I mean I have a fucking reason why I'm not repairing my Galaxy S9+, the repair place is too far away and I can't live a week without my phone
Camden Moore
You're a pussy fix it yourself faggot Don't you know this is a tech board? Kill yourself
Brayden Russell
I asked him to go, but its too far and he just assume its just an ordinary apple phone problem. He still like the phone regardless. Maybe he just needs to update the phone or something?
Asher Lewis
just get him a replacement already, or have apple ship a replacement to you if it's too far.
Levi Diaz
Should I rather get now an iphone X or fix my broken phone and get the new one in september?
Ryan Jackson
whichever is cheaper, desu. iPhones typically hold value well though
Liam Russell
future proofing for iOS updates
migrating your shit between phones is already a fuckhuge hassle
Angel Johnson
>whichever is cheaper, desu. iPhones typically hold value well though well repairing it would vary between 60 ~100€. Then waiting to buy the new one for 1k€ plus whatever the mobile dude is gonna charge me.
The only thing why I think repairing is the option, because in 5 months there is the new one, with probably better faceId and better touch controlls. But who knows how long I need to wait until I get one.
Brody Phillips
that's not a lot of money, repair it seems more plausible
i don't know how much money you would lose if you were to buy an iphone x right now then sell it for the newer iphone x
Nicholas Cruz
yeah but I can only repair it to that price if I have luck otherwise it´s double the money.
Man, if this would be like january I would easily buy it, but now it´s just like 5 months until the new one gets released.
Liam Phillips
usually repairing phones is not worth the cost
Angel Bailey
I am arab who fuck white whores that my father bring from US in return for oil. I have trouble understanding English words. Iphone's 3D touch to get dictionary works flawlessly. So i use Iphone x.
Ethan Gomez
In Chrome for iOS, can you select text and search it instantly? It works on Android but does it work on iOS as well?
Jaxon Martinez
why user? btw. my old phone is a 6+
Josiah Martinez
i use safari in ios
Jordan Roberts
well, does safari have a similar feature?
Eli Ward
Yes. 3d touch text and click lookup. it search dictionary and web as well.
Leo Jackson
>anyone else suck cocks on a daily basis
Jordan Gomez
>implying
Joseph Watson
welp.
i just purchased the iPhone X from my carrier.
hopefully this thing will arrive soon
Lincoln Bennett
> realworldtech Fucking lol. Why are you such a faggot?
Luke Bell
it sounds like an alt-right website, is it?
Luke Mitchell
Fuck off retard
Tyler James
>tfw my carrier is quoting 3 to 5 business days to ship fuck
Camden Taylor
I have an iPhone X, user. I really like it. I'm less of a tinkerer than I used to be and this phone has been really great. I spend a lot of time on the phone and the battery life is very good too. I don't notice the little nook at the top really but I can't say I watch lots of videos on my phone either. I mostly use it for calls, emails, ubers, directions, banking/payment apps, and other normie stuff.
Isaac Gutierrez
my main concern is that the screen is much smaller than the galaxy s9+
Liam Price
>I'm less of a tinkerer than I used to be Then you can take your toddler toy and fuck right on back to plebbit where you belong.