Hands on with the new powerful iPhoneX
Maybe X isn't quite right: This should be the iPhone Beta. The new iPhone X sets the stage for a new decade of full-screen, augmented reality living. Like the best Apple products, it dares to question old assumptions, break rules, and introduce radical new concepts. But also like some groundbreaking Apple products—the original iPod, the original iPhone, and the original iMac among them—it makes me feel a little bit like I'm a beta tester for the future, and like app developers, especially, need to catch up before this is a completely comfortable phone to use.
You're coming here to find out if you should buy the iPhone X$999.00 at Verizon Wireless. As of this writing, too many apps aren't ready for it right now, and other features feel not quite fully baked. You need to have the early adopter mentality to enjoy the X completely. Tell you what, though. Unlike the iPhone 8, this isn't boring. Not one bit. Get ready to be excited by an iPhone again.
A Sharp New Look
Apple tends to redesign the iPhone every few years. The original models' stone-like appearance gave way to the iPhone 4's glass sandwich, which became the iPhone 6's metal sleekness. Now there's a new look.
The iPhone X is nearly bezel-less, as advertised, with that notorious notch for the front camera assembly eating a chunk out of the screen at the top. It comes in space gray or silver. On the back, the dual cameras create a sharp, not smooth, bump that you should even out with a nice case. Apple says that the glass back is durable, but we strongly suggest getting a case for any $1,000 phone, no matter how strong it is.
The all-screen design would feel radical if we hadn't seen the Galaxy S8, Galaxy Note 8, LG V30, and the like. Instead, it just feels current. It does make the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus look pretty bad, though, like they have quite a bit of wasted space.
At 5.65 by 2.79 by 0.3 inches (HWD) and 6.14 ounces, the X is slightly shorter, wider, and heavier than Samsung's Galaxy S8. More importantly for iFans, it's slightly bigger than the iPhone 6/7/8, but not nearly as big or as wide as the Plus series. I love this: You get a lot more screen, and a lot more usage, in a comfortable one-handed form factor. I don't want to go back to any other iPhone after this. Note that the keyboard is a little narrower than the Plus' keyboard. If you have very big fingers and need the largest possible keyboard, you still have to go with the Plus.
The X's 2,436-by-1,125-pixel, 5.8-inch, 458ppi AMOLED screen actually has less surface area than the iPhone 8 Plus' 5.5-inch screen, because it's a very different shape. It's a tall, narrow screen, at a 19.5:9 aspect ratio; that's narrower than the Galaxy S8 (18.5:9), and much narrower than previous iPhones (16:9). Using SQUID, our handy measure of sheer display size, you're getting 12.36 square inches of display here, as compared with 9.44 on the iPhone 8 and 12.93 on the iPhone 8 Plus.
The OLED is very carefully color balanced to look as much like Apple's previous LCDs as possible, but it just barely betrays its true nature: blacks are blacker, and colors are just a touch more saturated than on the iPhone 8 Plus. The phone supports both popular versions of HDR, HDR10 and Dolby Vision, and will show compatible content in HDR when appropriate. Compared with a Galaxy S8, the iPhone X's colors are noticeably warmer, with whites tending a little bit more toward yellow than the bluish Galaxy.
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