“Over the last few months since the iPhone XS, XS Max and XR arrived, I’ve been cycling through them all,” Scot Stein writes for CNET. “But the phone landscape has been crowded with much sexier stories recently: 5G is beginning to rear its head, wild new transforming folding phones are capturing people’s imaginations and there are phones studded with more cameras than you can keep track of.”
“The iPhones from late 2018 are not so interesting in comparison. But that’s also to their credit. After all, when Verizon launched its 5G network it turned out to be spottier than expected, Samsung’s Galaxy Fold phone is already breaking, and some of those camera-studded phones don’t do quite as much as you think,” Stein writes. “The iPhones, meanwhile, feel pretty flawless, which is quite un-newsworthy. They’re clearly Apple’s most polished and perfected products right now.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: The quality of the job Apple did with X-class iOS device gestures cannot be overstated. Going back to an iPhone or an iPad with a Home button is excruciating after using iPhones and iPad Pros with X-class iOS gestures.
Very satisfied with my 512GB XS Max to date. Awesome iPhone for years to come.
“…wild new transforming folding phones are capturing people’s imaginations…”
MDN is allowed to engage in hyperbole now and then, but “excruciating”? Hardly. My 8+ is the heigh of iphone perfection, mostly due to my disdain of the notch and the obsession of bezel-less displays. Newer is not always better.