Gadgetory

I'm Scott Stein and six months later I'm using an iPhone 10 now I remember back last year in September when Apple talked about the iPhone 10 and they said this was going to be a whole new paradigm for phones and for the iPhone this was gonna be a design going forward into the future for the next 10 years well I'm using it now and it doesn't really feel all that futuristic and maybe that's my favorite thing about the iPhone 10 the fact that it feels normal in fact getting rid of the home button doesn't really feel like a loss at all these swipe ups and the general controls on the bottom of the iPhone 10 are so intuitive that I feel like I actually prefer them using the home button and I think it's a direction that they could use and things like the Apple watch and the iPad and just generally it's a great multi-touch swipe interface that they've got going other things I like about the iPhone 10 six months later are its size I like it from the beginning and I like it now I think it's a perfect size really easy to hold I don't want a larger phone and the other thing I like about the iPhone 10 is that of course it's almost all screen almost all except for the knotch which I've gotten more used to because heck a lot of phones now have notches so Apple now seems like they've set a trend I'm still not wild however about the fact that the notch cuts out so much of the information at the top that I can't see all the bits of info to check whether my bluetooth headphones are connected or to look at other bits that I would have normally looked at and I'm not wild about the way you have to then letterbox the screen to look at movies another thing I'm not wild about on the iPhone 10 his face ID the face ID I guess you had to get there because you had to get rid of the home button and as the future goes in all the iPads and computers and everything else in our lives the ability to log in with your face is pretty cool and it's great that it works but on something like a phone there are a lot of times I want to log in quickly and it's not so easy to do maybe I'm waking up and I've got my head in the pillow and I've only got one eye above the pillow or I don't have my glasses on and it needs to be in a certain range not too close and that's frustrating because then I have to enter a passcode same thing with them walking down the street and I want to quickly lift it up I feel like I have to aim my head more and if I want to lift it just gently on the desk or if I'm taking notes and the phone locked and I want to just quickly unlock it I'm usually having to enter the passcode and it's a little too slow for me compared to touch ID if you like face ID to really needs to happen to improve all those things I think the true depth camera is really exciting the idea that it's almost like a mini Microsoft Kinect in there and could do 3d scans I still think that's really untapped as far as a our augmented reality apps go on the iPhone I feel like that's an exciting and still unexplored area of the camera I'd even like to maybe see if it didn't affect battery life having something like that on the rear of the camera but for what I don't know in the iPhone tens battery life it's okay I still feel like about 3:00 p.m. I've got a panic and recharge to make sure that at the end of the day I'm not running out and that's something I've had for years with the iPhone and a lot of phones sure you have to manage battery life the iPhone 10 I find has a little bit less battery life on a daily basis than the iPhone 8 plus I want to get to the point like with the Apple watch or the iPad where I can do a whole day and not feel like I have to sift the battery carefully another thing I'm not wild about is how much I have to coddle the phone I love the design of it I think it's great to hold I think it's fantastic in the way it feels but if you drop an iPhone 10 you could shatter the screen and our drop tests have basically shown that this can happen pretty easily now I always keep this thing in a case I would never hold it outside of a case like I am now and I would like that Apple final they tend to make the phones a little more durable to prevent that from happening in mid 2018 I think the iPhone 10 really has the best overall design of any phone that's out there and I think it's really great to use it's fast the cameras are really good and across the board it's proven that it's the form I would pick over another form but at that price $1,000 I still feel like it's too expensive so Apple may come out with other iPhone 10 like phones this year and begin lowering the price to make it more reasonable I think that really needs to happen because at this point if I were recommending a phone to a family member I'd say well you probably don't need the iPhone 10 you should probably get another iPhone or another phone that has a price that matches that still performs really well