4 Major Reasons to Buy iPhone X Instead of iPhone 8
Apple unveiled its iPhone 8 and iPhone X smartphones on Tuesday. While the iPhone 8 is a serious upgrade, the iPhone X is a huge leap forward. The devices will share a number of similarities and features, like the A11 Bionic CPU and wireless charging, but the iPhone X will sport a number of updates that will make it stand out. Use the right arrow to learn four of the biggest reasons to pick the iPhone X over the iPhone 8 or 8 Plus.
4 Better Battery Life
The battery on the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus will have “about the same” as the current-generation iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus devices, according to Apple’s website. Sure, those devices are no slouches when it comes to battery life, but the iPhone X will have them beat.
Apple announced that the battery on the iPhone X will last about two hours longer than the iPhone 7. That’s probably because of OLED’s better power efficiency and possibly due to a new L-shaped battery design. Either way, it means that you’ll be able to use your iPhone X for longer.
3 Face ID Security
Touch ID isn’t dead quite yet. Both the iPhone 8 and the iPhone 8 Plus will retain a Home button and Apple’s fingerprint-based authentication system. The iPhone X, on the other hand, won’t have a Home button or Touch ID — and instead will rely on Face ID, Apple’s new advanced facial recognition system.
It relies on a neural engine and infrared sensors, so it works in the dark, and will adapt to a user’s face over time (if they change hairstyles or grow a beard, for example). It’s faster and more secure, too. Apple said that Touch ID has about a 1 in 50,000 chance of false authentication. With Face ID, that stat drops to 1 in 1,000,000. And it won’t be easily spoofed by a picture of you.
2 TrueDepth Cameras
Apple routinely updates it new flagships with better cameras, and this year is no different. But while the iPhone 8 and the iPhone 8 Plus both get mostly incremental camera updates, the iPhone X gets a larger boost in camera capability and quality — particularly with the front-facing selfie camera.
For one, the iPhone X has a dual, front-facing camera module featuring TrueDepth technology. Not only will it have advanced AR capabilities, but it will also support Portrait Mode and the new Portrait Lighting — a first for Apple’s selfie cameras.
1 Edge-to-Edge OLED
Arguably the biggest feature that the iPhone X introduces is its display. The iPhone 8 and 8 Plus will both retain a traditionally sized screen, with the standard bezels on the top and bottom. The iPhone X, on the other hand, is “all-screen” with a massive 5.8-inch display area. That’s a bigger screen than the iPhone 8 Plus in a smaller form factor.
Not only is it bigger, it’s better. It uses Apple's Super Retina HD display technology and packs in the highest pixel density of any iPhone. Put simply, it’s an OLED display that does away with the display medium’s usual weaknesses as far as brightness and color accuracy. It’s the best of both worlds, as Apple puts it, it's the best of both the LCD and OLED worlds.