What matters to you when it comes to smart phones? Latest and greatest? Well, okay, but what does that do for you? Why does the latest and greatest matter to you? Utility then? Okay. What does this new gadget do that I need and wasn’t available before?
What if it’s just better?
That’s why I’ll pick up the iPhone X when it comes out. Forget about the silly (but perhaps hyper futuristic) “Face ID” capability where you unlock the device with you face. This new beauty has the very best screen, OLED, and the best camera, and is in the form that I prefer.
Here’s what sold it for me: the dimensions of the device. I’m going to boor you a moment with some numbers.
Dimensions of previous iPhones:
iPhone 6S – 5.44” x 2.64”
iPhone 6S Plus – 6.23”x3.07”
iPhone 7 and 8 are similar to the 6S
iPhone X – 5.65”x2.79”
Let us take a look at that. Starting with the 6S series the camera was improved in the “Plus” version over the smaller phone. This has continued through the 7 and now 8. Want the nicer camera? You have to get the much larger device. This has bothered me, but Apple just changed that.
They took the hardware of the larger “Plus” models and put it in to the much smaller iPhone X, plus they greatly improved the screen to OLED technology, and only had to make it slightly bigger than the smaller non-Plus phones. That’s what I’ve wanted all along. The quality phone of the “Plus” with the form factor of the non-Plus.
That’s it. I’m in.
Prediction time. We’ll see the iPhone X sell well and the next generation will bring back the “Plus” concept to the premier level phone. We’ll get something like an iPhone 8S with 8S Plus and a premium iPhone XI with XI Plus. Coming to your local Apple store in 2018.
Happy Reading,
J.W. Gant
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