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what's up guys brian tong here and guess what if you look in your calendar we're pretty much three months a little over three months of when the iphone 10 first launched and you've seen my review you've heard a lot of the things that i had to say about it but it's now been three months later i've used it obviously every day since then and now a lot of the things that i've said before some of held true but there's also kind of some nuances of using this that maybe I like more or I don't like more so we want to get into this of maybe how my opinions have changed about the iPhone 10 over time now before we get into it this is a solid phone I think it's a very good phone it's not a great perfect you know kind of finely polished perfect idea of what Apple wants for their iPhone I called it kind of like their concept car but it is a great good - great phone very good phone it's there so let's get that other way so you guys go what are you doing on the phone no all right I still have the iPhone 10 but the thing that stuck out to me the most about it really is face ID you know I was worried about how fast it would be over time and you hear some of these caveats when you first get the phone right you're looking at it it's unlocking perfectly it's all great but then over time as you use this phone at least for me I go back to using the phone and holding in the positions that I normally have when I used to have touch ID so what does that mean I don't hold my phone exactly up to my face like this there's times where in the morning even when I wake up I reach for it out of my bed and I kind of hold it here and face ID doesn't unlock my phone so guess what you got to type in your code there's times where you're outside at least specifically in like sunnier weather where maybe where the Sun and reflection is shooting out towards you it doesn't really see your face very well it doesn't unlock there even when you're at an office desk you'd like to leave your phone flat on the table you can't just touch the home button like you can with touch ID and unlock your phone you have to kind of like either lean over it or pick it up more than just like a little bit and that just gets annoying when you think about how many times this happens over the course of time I use Apple pay a lot I don't even use my phone for Apple pay anymore because you know looking at it and having like I'm used to using my Apple watch for Apple pay but I'm not gonna assume that everyone is just gonna get an Apple watch I'm not the person that tells you hey an Apple watch is the solution for Apple pay I'm not that guy so again I just don't like face IDs responsiveness it's gonna get better over time but it's just not there yet all right the next thing that was a big thing for me and I've made all big stinks about it was the knotch guess what I just have come to the point to live and accept the knotch I still think it's ugly but it doesn't bother me as much anymore because there's nothing I can do about it but this is where it is a pain in the butt from a standpoint of the utilities that you see on the top border now in the past when you would turn your phone into do not disturb mode you would at least see that kind of crescent moon icon to tell you that well now every time you go into do not disturb mode right I go down here I select it then maybe I'm doing a shoot or maybe I'm somewhere where I can't you know I can't be loud or I don't want my phone to set off it doesn't show that utility on the top so then what happens over the course the day this happens so many times I forget that Do Not Disturb is on and then I don't get calls or I don't get text messages and you know who gets mad at me my girlfriend you don't want that to happen your significant other because of do not disturb mode Apple the knotch you got me in trouble bro so let's talk about things that don't really matter with this camera that they're there but you know I don't really use them it's got to be the selfie camera portrait mode specifically right Apple made a big fuss about this but I don't take selfies in portrait mode the thing that I really like really like I was an iPhone 7 user so I never had a portrait mode on the rear camera I used that thing all the time like I'll take a picture I was like going to town with it like the ice cream museum you know I told people to stay there take a normal picture and then I'm like all right got a portrait mode this thing and then took a portrait version of it I love doing that so if there's one thing that I love about this phone just because I was an iPhone 7 user sorry guys and gals I'm not always gonna get the biggest and baddest um definitely portrait mode on the rear camera has been a plus for me but really if you look at my comparison of this phone and my review almost everything I said about it my first impressions in my first review have held true I think the biggest thing that sticks out to me is just that face ID over time just isn't all that it's cracked up to be an apple has a whole lot of work to do with it is this a people sometimes call this an incomplete phone I don't think it's an incomplete phone I think people that got this knew what they were getting into it's Apple's concept car it's not finished it will get better but it still is a solid phone so there you go I still do like this I didn't return it but there you have it it's my three-month review of the iPhone 10 boom