Bought a new pair of Sennheiser PXC 550 Bluetooth headphones to accompany to "X" today. Never had this brand, they sound like well made headphones with great noise cancelling and controls on the headphone cups for volume, change music tracks, and answer phone calls. Looking forward to listening thru them..

I bought an iPhone X a couple of days ago, after availability improved to the point that I could just walk into an Apple store and buy one. Wonderful phone! What I especially like:
* Large ratio of screen size to phone size – it’s all screen.
* OLED screen – high contrast & color saturation.
* Facial recognition to unlock & Apple Pay – VERY convenient.
* 60 - 70 Mbps download in my home – Sprint network.
* Gestures replace physical home button.

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I bought an iPhone X a couple of days ago, after availability improved to the point that I could just walk into an Apple store and buy one. Wonderful phone! What I especially like:
* Large ratio of screen size to phone size – it’s all screen.
* OLED screen – high contrast & color saturation.
* Facial recognition to unlock & Apple Pay – VERY convenient.
* 60 - 70 Mbps download in my home – Sprint network.
* Gestures replace physical home button.

Are they still currently holding their price tag at 1k?

I picked up a 64 gig from Costco. It was $1,000 but gave me a $100 Costco Rebate. Rebate was mail in.

I’ve had the phone for a couple months now and it’s great. Best iPhone to date, no doubt about it.

Many here probably already know this but, since the battery % can be viewed by a quick swipe down from the top of the screen, if you swipe right from the home screen, hit the edit button and you can enable the battery as a widget from the menu, and after that a quick swipe to the right will show the battery % as a widget in much larger numbers/% for those who my be a it far-sided like me

Oh, and the camera is fantastic. I downloaded the Halide app for it and it will allow you great adjustments for tweakers, plus allows you to shoot in RAW mode for expanded editing capabilities.

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Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:
I bought an iPhone X a couple of days ago, after availability improved to the point that I could just walk into an Apple store and buy one. Wonderful phone! What I especially like:
* Large ratio of screen size to phone size – it’s all screen.
* OLED screen – high contrast & color saturation.
* Facial recognition to unlock & Apple Pay – VERY convenient.
* 60 - 70 Mbps download in my home – Sprint network.
* Gestures replace physical home button.

Are they still currently holding their price tag at 1k?

Yes, ~$1K list for the 64 GB model. As a former Qualcomm employee, I received a small discount.

I received one from as supplier as a gift yesterday - it's a 256K Space Gray model. What's the chances this thing will work in the US on Verizon?

Ah, I'm in Taiwan now, so I presume it's Taiwanese market. When I turned it on it said ¡Hola! so it seems correct and not in Chinese. P/N MQAF2TA/A

thanks!

Ruh Row

Apple to Cut iPhone X Production in the Face of Weak Demand

My supplier, who is a subcontractor to Foxconn who builds these things, told me the facial recognition feature rarely works on females, as slight changes in make-up fools it. Few Taiwanese women will pony up for the iPX when one of major "features" isn't fully functional for them

My wife and I have had ours since December. We both think it is the best we have had and compares better than the Note8we trialed. No facial recognition issues, but I don’t wear makeup . My wife wears very little but no issues.

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My supplier, who is a subcontractor to Foxconn who builds these things, told me the facial recognition feature rarely works on females, as slight changes in make-up fools it. Few Taiwanese women will pony up for the iPX when one of major "features" isn't fully functional for them

Kinda surprising, though I don't wear make-up , I have tried it in extremely low light at night time wearing a dark blue hoodie, a baseball cap and sunglasses and it works immediately at activation, no problems whatsoever so far. I could see perhaps Japanese geisha women who traditionally wear what appears to be painted on make up, but not normal applications.

My purchase wasn't heavily weighted on the stuff like the facial recognition but was more interested in the camera features and quality, which I'm very happy with.

I love the easy-on-the-eyes screen of my iPhone X.

And I’m really loving its face recognition feature. To unlock the phone of course, but also to log in to accounts. The excellent MyChart app already had that capability when I bought the phone. More recently my bank, Wells Fargo, implemented it. I expect more apps will soon have it too.

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Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:
I bought an iPhone X a couple of days ago, after availability improved to the point that I could just walk into an Apple store and buy one. Wonderful phone! What I especially like:
* Large ratio of screen size to phone size – it’s all screen.
* OLED screen – high contrast & color saturation.
* Facial recognition to unlock & Apple Pay – VERY convenient.
* 60 - 70 Mbps download in my home – Sprint network.
* Gestures replace physical home button.

Are they still currently holding their price tag at 1k?

I spent time with AT&T customer retention (or whatever it’s called) complaining about being a long time customer (home and cell) and lack of deals on replacement phones blah blah blah. All the deals were to add new lines. I had to agree to a 2 year contract but I got the X for $549. Still high but more reasonable. The only problem I see is with autocorrect. This phone makes the oddest autocorrect choices and if I don’t proofread I will always have mistakes.

 
I squirreled away money from our income tax refund just so I could purchase the X successor, coming this fall. Last year, I bought the 8+, for my first ever "jumbo" phone. I think I would prefer the X, which is the same physical size as the 8 (not +), because it is all screen. And I generally want to wait a year or so with a bunch of new technology introduced (Face ID, OLED screen, etc). Will wait it out for the Sim free model, then sell the 8+ here. Almost all the reports I am seeing on the current X model are positive.