[zx10guy]

Originally Posted by dinonz

My 55" TV is 16x9 too, so I want movies on that rather than my phone.

Really - is this actually a concern for people? I travel. I'm a Kiwi living in Texas. Never ever at all in my life have I watched a movie or any video of significance on my phone, other than comedic youtube clips friends texted to me. I have never been in a situation where I thought "I want to watch a movie" and haven't had a better option provided by someone else (hotel, airline, home TV...)

In my situation, I have found I do use my phone a lot for video media. In addition to using Plex, I use my phone for Waze, Slingbox, and my home security camera system (Hikvision).

The Plex app I didn't put an emphasis on for quite some time. But recently paid the $4.99 to have unrestricted media access to the movies I have on my server. Where this comes in handy is with my daughter. Rather than storing all the videos she wants to watch on my phone, I just stream it from the server. Because I now have this capability, I find myself launching movies I have on my server to watch them because well I can now on my phone.

Waze is self explanatory.

Slingbox gives me remote access to all of my DirecTV programming both live and stored on the DVRs.

I'm using the Hikvision app to stream live and stored video footage of the cameras I have on my home.

Where the annoyance comes in is what I've mentioned with the weird stretching that is caused by the new video resolution. I have a BimmerTech SmartView module installed in my car where I mirror the video/audio from my phone to the nav screen. I use Waze this way. With Plex, I stream my daughter's movie on the nav screen to keep her placated. If I don't manually change the resolution to 16:9, the video is stretched with black bars on the top and bottom.

Was wondering if Apple handles this video ratio issue better than Samsung.

[jmg]

Originally Posted by dinonz

No - the X screen is not smaller than the 8 screen. You are deluded. The 8 has a 4.7" screen. Your 8+ has a 5.5" screen. The X has a 5.8 inch screen, although at a different aspect ratio. And at the same time - it has a higher resolution than your 8+. So while you've successfully purchased the ideal "old man" phone with nice big pixels, you have indeed purchased a phone with lower resolution than the X, even if you remove the "safe zones" top and bottom.

Aren't the iphone 6 Plus and 8 Plus the same 5.5 size? If so than I can confirm that the X screen is technically "smaller" in terms of watching full screen 16:9 videos. The X is skinnier, meaning the same aspect videos will have to scale down to fit without cropping. Technically though, the iPhone X has more total screen area... just a different aspect ratio. That's just one compromises I see in my iphone X vs my old plus.

[jmg]

Originally Posted by dinonz

My 55" TV is 16x9 too, so I want movies on that rather than my phone.

Really - is this actually a concern for people? I travel. I'm a Kiwi living in Texas. Never ever at all in my life have I watched a movie or any video of significance on my phone, other than comedic youtube clips friends texted to me. I have never been in a situation where I thought "I want to watch a movie" and haven't had a better option provided by someone else (hotel, airline, home TV...)

Yes. I use my iphone for watching videos more often than music actually. Different people have different needs.

[dinonz]

Originally Posted by jmg

Aren't the iphone 6 Plus and 8 Plus the same 5.5 size? If so than I can confirm that the X screen is technically "smaller" in terms of watching full screen 16:9 videos. The X is skinnier, meaning the same aspect videos will have to scale down to fit without cropping. Technically though, the iPhone X has more total screen area... just a different aspect ratio. That's just one compromises I see in my iphone X vs my old plus.

Yeah - all of the 6/7/8 models share the same screen sizes. The X screen is technically .3" larger on the diagonal however that does not mean it's bigger in either dimension, but as mentioned with the aspect ratio it's also not 16x9, and the physical height when watching a video in landscape mode is indeed smaller, but higher resolution.

[dinonz]

Originally Posted by jmg

Yes. I use my iphone for watching videos more often than music actually. Different people have different needs.

Yeah - that's why I asked whether it was a big thing for people. I might be an outlier in that I rarely take pictures, do not use my phone for music or video, rarely use it for navigation (prefer the one in my HUD). I'd probably be happy with the old Motorola Razr V3 I have in a box somewhere, except I love having access to my email while on the move.

[dinonz]

One feature I've noticed that I love is that everything just comes up like this on the lock screen:

iMessage
New Message

Messenger
Notification

But when I raise the screen to where Face ID kicks in, the "New Message" and "Notification" get replaced with the actual text like they used to show - but of course nobody else can pick it up and see the actual messages. I like that.

[jdr78569]

Originally Posted by dinonz

One feature I've noticed that I love is that everything just comes up like this on the lock screen:

iMessage
New Message

Messenger
Notification

But when I raise the screen to where Face ID kicks in, the "New Message" and "Notification" get replaced with the actual text like they used to show - but of course nobody else can pick it up and see the actual messages. I like that.

NICE. trying to see if Atlanta has any so when i go up that way tomorrow.

[ASAP]

Originally Posted by dinonz

One feature I've noticed that I love is that everything just comes up like this on the lock screen:

iMessage
New Message

Messenger
Notification

But when I raise the screen to where Face ID kicks in, the "New Message" and "Notification" get replaced with the actual text like they used to show - but of course nobody else can pick it up and see the actual messages. I like that.

best feature ever

[dinonz]

Originally Posted by ASAP

best feature ever

Yeah - was a very unexpected part of Face ID, but one that I really appreciate.

One thing I don't like however is that DND mode is no longer displayed on the status bar anywhere - slightly annoying.

[Bomex]

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[KMORGSM5]

Originally Posted by dinonz

Yeah - was a very unexpected part of Face ID, but one that I really appreciate.

One thing I don't like however is that DND mode is no longer displayed on the status bar anywhere - slightly annoying.

Should be able to change in setting and add it.

[dinonz]

Originally Posted by KMORGSM5

Should be able to change in setting and add it.

Haven't found a setting yet...

[Bomex]

Do not disturb in the quater moon or whatever in the control center

[dinonz]

Originally Posted by Bomex

Do not disturb in the quater moon or whatever in the control center

Yeah - it's just not visible on the top of the screen like it used to be when turned on.

[bimmer456]

Originally Posted by dinonz

Yeah - it's just not visible on the top of the screen like it used to be when turned on.

No because of the notch there is not enough room so you have to swipe down from the upper right corner to see it in control center. Same with the battery percentage. That will be cool if the next iPhone does away with the notch and the Face ID sensors can be mounted behind the OLED display. They should also integrate iris scanning so it can't be fooled by a twin like the galaxy s8

[dinonz]

Originally Posted by bimmer456

No because of the notch there is not enough room so you have to swipe down from the upper right corner to see it in control center. Same with the battery percentage. That will be cool if the next iPhone does away with the notch and the Face ID sensors can be mounted behind the OLED display. They should also integrate iris scanning so it can't be fooled by a twin like the galaxy s8

The speaker is also in the notch, so even if they could put the sensors behind the screen there would be some kind of notch.

[bimmer456]

Originally Posted by dinonz

The speaker is also in the notch, so even if they could put the sensors behind the screen there would be some kind of notch.

The speaker is small and you could just have small bezels at the top and bottom for front firing speakers.

[BayMoWe335]

Originally Posted by bimmer456

No because of the notch there is not enough room so you have to swipe down from the upper right corner to see it in control center. Same with the battery percentage. That will be cool if the next iPhone does away with the notch and the Face ID sensors can be mounted behind the OLED display. They should also integrate iris scanning so it can't be fooled by a twin like the galaxy s8

You mean they should integrate iris scanning so it can be fooled by a picture like the Samsung Galaxy S8?

Jokes aside, they aren't going to implement an inferior technology for an extremely rare scenario like twins. If you have such a bad relationship with your twin that you have to worry about them locking your phone, you need to reevaluate your life.

[ASAP]

So far I love it, no complaints... could be a tiny bit smaller but otherwise awesome.

[tdott]

Originally Posted by ASAP

So far I love it, no complaints... could be a tiny bit smaller but otherwise awesome.

I was thinking it could be a tad bigger, but overall no complaints, enjoying the move back to iOS. FaceID didn't take too long to get used to and works pretty good imo.

[theriz]

After having the phone over the weekend I love it. The phone could be a little bigger at times its hard to hold onto and reach the top left of the screen, but its something I can get used to.

If anyone was wondering how to display the battery percentage just pull down on the upper right side of the screen where your battery is. There isnt an option to show battery percentage, unfortunately.

[ASAP]

make sure you update to ios 11.1 as some (including mine) were shipped with 11.0.1... this update gives you reachability which is one of the most important accessibility features