I decided yesterday that it was time for me to get my yearly new IPhone swap.

This year they told me there would be a $350. deposit. Deal breaker for me. I guess I'll just keep my 10 Max instead.

Bob

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Originally posted by mcrimm:
I started with an AT&T bag phone with about 30 minutes a month time.

Mike

i had the exact same bag phone LOL

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Originally posted by Ozarkwoods:
One thing I don’t like about the use of facial recognition, it’s automatic, I like that I must enter a code or pattern in order for my phone to open. What’s to say that someone comes up and hits me from behind knocks me silly and dazed, takes my phone and puts it up to my face to unlock it?

Checkout the video LOL

Link to Video on Face Recognition

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Originally posted by HRK:

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Originally posted by Ozarkwoods:
One thing I don’t like about the use of facial recognition, it’s automatic, I like that I must enter a code or pattern in order for my phone to open. What’s to say that someone comes up and hits me from behind knocks me silly and dazed, takes my phone and puts it up to my face to unlock it?

Checkout the video LOL

Link to Video on Face Recognition

Actually, there are a couple safeguards:

1) If you hold the Volume Up button and the Power button a couple seconds until the "Slide to Turn OFF" screen appears, it will deactivate the facial recognition and will require manual entry of the unlock code.

If the phone is already locked...

2) If you have "Hey Siri" activated,
you can say "Hey Siri, who's phone is this?"

Siri will reply "I believe this phone belongs to (YOUR NAME)" and the facial recognition will be disabled and require manual entry of the unlock code.

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Originally posted by NavyGuy:
... I'm now getting a lot better reception at my house than I did with the iPhone 7.

This ^^^^^ is why I'm considering upgrading. I was going to hold out for iPhone X prices to drop, but now I'm thinking "I've never owned a flagship phone before, I use the hell out of my phone, and I ain't gettin' any younger, so..."

What got me to thinking about it was we were just in a doctor's office, the signal was poor, they had no guest WiFi, so there I sat, twiddling my thumbs. Maybe I'll head over to the closest TMO store and take a look.

My wife wouldn't mind a bigger phone, so maybe the 11 would be better for her. And, since fingerprint recognition doesn't work hardly at all for her (very faint prints), the face recognition would be a bonus.

But $60+/mo. for two years... I dunno...

Found this take down video fun to watch

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dVZKn6NSmNg

I Should have the 11 PMax in a week