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The screen does unlock but remains on the lock screen until you swipe up.
Only then will it go to your home screen
I suppose so, but for the ordinary user this isn't something they'd want or be able to do. There are a lot of people who have said a Google Play Edition Samsung Galaxy S8 would be perfect! For those who don't know, Google used to offer certain devices in their store in a Play Edition - with just the Google version of Android, equivalent to a Pixel effectively. Updates directly from Google.
So you look at your phone to pick it up and put it in your pocket, and it unlocks. Brilliant! I’m sure when Apple was testing prototypes they intentionally excluded this convenience.
That’s why it doesn’t go to the home screen when you look at it. Yes, it unlocks, but you have to swipe up to open the phone.
Of course this is why it has a proximity sensor. So that it turns the screen off when you put it in your pocket.
But all of this could be entirely academic to you if you did one simple thing: turn off “raise to wake.” Then it won’t do anything until you decide you want it to.
And when the Apple Note X aka X Plus comes out?
MacRumors - https://www.macrumors.com/2017/11/13/kuo-three-new-iphones-2018/
next year's new iPhone lineup would consist of the second-gen iPhone X with the same size screen, a larger 6.5-inch version that we're tentatively calling the iPhone X Plus
MacRumors - https://www.macrumors.com/2017/11/13/kuo-three-new-iphones-2018/
When I pick up my phone it’s usually an arms distance and I don’t look at it to put in my pocket. I just pick it up put my pocket without looking at it. Very simple and as has been mentioned you can turn off if there was this option.
And besides, doesn’t the phone unlock when you pick it up ? No ? Unless you bring it up to your face within so many inches.
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Imo both sides are the same. Pixel fanboys are the same, with many defending the Pixel 2 as if it's the bestest Android phone ever, ignoring all the hardware flaws. Even Samsung fanboys have better reasons for fanboying their Galaxy S/Note than Pixel fanboys.
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Are you even using your Android phone then? Let's not even talk about 3rd party apps, I just had Android Auto and Google Maps crashed when I was driving. Crashes happen to any OS platforms. Claiming you never had crashes on Android is not any different than the Apple fanboys claiming they never had iOS spring board crashes.
I agree with this. Apple is simply not innovative anymore. I run all their stuff. I've got a 12.9" iPad Pro, a new 15" MacBook Pro, and an iPhone X.
While I make due with these things, nothing has really changed for years.
The iPhone X is not compelling. I've had one since launch day, and today I was looking at it and it looks dated. Long, narrow screen. Thick black border all around. Massive camera bump that always gets in the way. And that god awful, damn notch that just ruins the looks and the usability.
I was going to return the X but two things have kept me sticking to it: lack of a home button and that the device is fast. I came from an iPhone 6 Plus, so the speed bump is noticeable. After using the X with no home button, I don't want to go back. But other than that, I don't like the phone that much, and can't recommend it to anyone. Especially at its price point.
I collect tech, and particularly Apple stuff. I do venture outside of Apple here and there, and I've got a mint early 2001 Sony Clie PDA. I've also got a Palm Pilot. If you put the iPhone next to one of these devices where each had their homescreen showing, you'd see that effectively, they're exactly the same.
We can rewind all the way back to the Apple Newton in 1993 to see the same old grid of icons. And the Newton borrowed this from previous devices from the 1980s.
iOS is stuck. Smartphone hardware isn't really doing much. All of this stuff year-over-year are just minor refinements, and I'm happy for improvements. But we need change for the better. Mobile operating systems that are much better for multi-tasking (iOS is horrible); and hardware that allows us to be more productive.
Apple is Dead to Me
Oh Apple, how thy luster has faded,
and our time is at an end.
It's to Samsung that I now must go,
just a sad word from a friend.
For many years I was loyal,
as we frolicked hand in hand.
But the times they are a changing,
you have lost another fan.
The End
Oh Apple, how thy luster has faded,
and our time is at an end.
It's to Samsung that I now must go,
just a sad word from a friend.
For many years I was loyal,
as we frolicked hand in hand.
But the times they are a changing,
you have lost another fan.
The End
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Really, why do people take it so personally when someone doesn't like the same phone as them??
That being said, I don't know why people need to make a thread about not liking a phone either.
These companies have conditioned us to tie these devices to our very self identity. When you think about it, what phone people like and why shouldn't matter any more than their favourite colour.
I think that's what you call the fan boy mentality. I also wonder why people make threads that they don't like the phone. It's not going to make a difference whether they like it or not. Macrumors should have a "Vent" category.
Even this YouTuber thinks so. When you look at something you actually glanced at it to pick it up, you don’t stare at it which will eliminate it opening
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When the iPhone X is picked up placing it in your pocket it doesn’t unlock does it? So it shouldn’t open up either unless you bring it up to your face
It does unlock the padlock icon if I’m looking at it and touch it or pick it up.
This is exactly why Apple is following the practices of the user intentionally taking an action to log into the phone.
Before it was press home button. Now it is swipe up.
That is the problem with Samsungs. Unless you install a custom rom, it will be a piece of *****. Installing roms is a lot of work and after a few years, developers stop doing new roms for the new versions of Android and you end up without support sooner than with an iphone.
71% of the world's population lives on less than $10 per day. And you "feel robbed" that a $1000 telephone that you will throw away in 2 years doesn't have the features you want.
Your problems don't matter.
Your problems don't matter.
Give it a rest. This is Macrumours and I'm talking iphones. If you were hoping to see me or someone else talk about our concerns for world poverty, you've come to the wrong place.
So glad the OP did not get dramatic!
The features I want are light weight and headphone jack. Latest models don't cut it.
So why not buy something that has what you want? You have plenty of choices.
