Apple iPhone X: no home button, no big deal? Hands-on analysis 0:00 / 1:28 Apple unveils iPhone X, iPhone 8 The new iPhone X. Picture: AP The new iPhone X. Picture: AP 12 CHRIS GRIFFITH, CUPERTINOThe Australian1:40AM September 14, 2017 Save Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on email Share more... 6 There’s an old computing principle that I remember from student days called KISS — “keep it simple stupid”. It’s originally a design principle from the US Navy. The hub of it is that the best system you design and build embraces the simplest way of doing things. Let’s now apply that to Apple’s iPhone X and iPhone 8/8 Plus launches today — in particular the decision on X to remove the home button and fingerprint recognition in favour of face recognition and gesture operation. There is little doubt in my mind that Apple has gone to enormous lengths to make face recognition work. The fact it scans 30,000 points to verify a face, has a “dot projector” for Face ID in low light, has a depth sensor, and other sensors, and tests your face for ‘liveness’ before unlocking your device is amazing technology. It also uses machine learning so if you grow a beard, face recognition will adjust to that. • Apple Launch 2017: Key products, prices and released dates • iPhone X v iPhone 8: the major differences 0:00 / 0:46 Apple launches the iPhone X in California If you like being at the cutting edge, and are about to buy a new iPhone, or are upgrading from, say, iPhone 6s, you’ll probably be happy to wait until November 3 and get an iPhoneX. Just keep stoking the piggybank with a few extra dollars in the meantime. If your approach is more conservative and cautious, if you are totally happy with the home button and fingerprint recognition, it’s a case of better the devil you know. You may want to buy an iPhone 8 or 8 Plus. And you’ll only be waiting till Friday next week, and pay a bit less. Coming back to KISS. In the end, the acid test will be whether it’s easier to operate this phone using gestures or a home button. The new iPhone 8, iPhone X and iPhone 8S. Picture: AFP The new iPhone 8, iPhone X and iPhone 8S. Picture: AFP If you analyse your actions movement by movement, all you currently need is a single jab to press the home button and to be authenticated. It works whether you are holding the phone or it’s on a table in front of you. Gesturing (sliding your finger up the phone) and showing your face to the phone’s camera seems to take more effort. And you’ll probably need to pick up your phone to test it. Sure, if you believe Apple, the odds of your phone being hacked open is less with face recognition: 1 to 1 million versus 1 to 50,000, but I am not perturbed by the 1:50,000 stat. I’ll be attracted to whatever is more convenient in the longer term. Today I had some hands on time with iPhone X and was able to use the new gestures system without a problem. Once I’ve tried out the system fully, I’ll be able to say which phone does better with the KISS test. There is of course the old adage — if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. The back of the new iPhone 8S. Picture: AFP The back of the new iPhone 8S. Picture: AFP On other matters, Apple showed its class when it revealed the way it was implementing a cellular watch — and this particularly applies in Australia — that connects directly to the cellular network and can take calls without a phone being around. Some Android phone makers have recently released watches that achieve this. You have one SIM with one number in the phone, and another regular SIM in the watch with a different phone number. Two phone numbers can lead to confusion. Do you message the phone, the watch or both, and you have two monthly or prepay accounts to pay. Apple gets around this by using one phone number for both. The SIM in the watch is an electronic SIM that, with authentication, copies across your iPhone phone number details to the watch. This requires authentication by Telstra, Optus and Vodafone who are coming aboard. Apple says the first two carriers will offer the feature at launch, with Vodafone providing it later this year. So when you go running, people who know your phone number and want to text you, can get a message to your watch, even when your phone is at another location and you can call them back, all with your regular number. This feature definitely does pass the KISS test and will be fun to try with Watch Series 3. Chris Griffith travelled to the Apple event in Cupertino courtesy of Apple Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on email Share more... Reader comments on this site are moderated before publication to promote lively and civil debate. We encourage your comments but submitting one does not guarantee publication. We publish hundreds of comments daily, and if a comment is rejected it is likely because it does not meet with our comment guidelines, which you can read here. No correspondence will be entered into if a comment is declined. 6 COMMENTS Sign in31 people listening + Follow Share Post comment as... NEWEST | OLDEST | TOP COMMENTS Avatar for Toni Toni 7 HOURS AGO It's edge to edge display falls short of samsung, LG and new comer Essential by inventor of Android, and the face recognition failed today. Not sure the almost 2 grand investment is worth the hype. FLAGSHARELIKEREPLY Avatar for AKA Peter AKA Peter 13 HOURS AGO What will an iPhoneX do except make more money for Apple? FLAGSHARELIKEREPLY Avatar for Anna Anna 12 HOURS AGO @AKA Peter do pay attention ... look at the specs and when all else fails ask a 15yo to explain it to you FLAGSHARE2SimonphilipLIKEREPLY Avatar for Lazybones Lazybones 10 HOURS AGO @AKA Peter Apple is not a charity, they make most of their money from the iPhone. It's good to see they have adopted the superior OLED technology at last. Samsung will be very happy to see that. FLAGSHARELIKEREPLY Avatar for Lloyd Lloyd 13 HOURS AGO Yes the KISS principle is always good. Will be interesting the hear the feedback about these new phones. Won't be rushing into one though as I have a 7plus and I am very happy with that - although thumb print recognition seems to be an issue. Gave up on this feature for unlocking phone as I often had trouble with it working - don't think my finger prints alter! I also have some concerns about wearing one of these new wrist phones with the issues around the radio magnetic output from such devices. We get enough exposure from our mobile phones but we are not wearing them close to our skin for up to 15 hours a day. I understand the current iWatches don't have these concerns as they do not contain a SIM card but rather connect to the iPhone with Bluetooth. You can't make calls on them but you can send brief SMS messages. 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Apple iPhone X: no home button, no big deal?
Apple iPhone X: no home button, no big deal? Hands-on analysis 0:00 / 1:28 Apple unveils iPhone X, iPhone 8 The new iPhone X. Picture: AP The new iPhone X. Picture: AP 12 CHRIS GRIFFITH, CUPERTINOThe Australian1:40AM September 14, 2017 Save Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on email Share more... 6 There’s an old computing principle that I remember from student days called KISS — “keep it simple stupid”. It’s originally a design principle from the US Navy. The hub of it is that the best system you design and build embraces the simplest way of doing things. Let’s now apply that to Apple’s iPhone X and iPhone 8/8 Plus launches today — in particular the decision on X to remove the home button and fingerprint recognition in favour of face recognition and gesture operation. There is little doubt in my mind that Apple has gone to enormous lengths to make face recognition work. The fact it scans 30,000 points to verify a face, has a “dot projector” for Face ID in low light, has a depth sensor, and other sensors, and tests your face for ‘liveness’ before unlocking your device is amazing technology. It also uses machine learning so if you grow a beard, face recognition will adjust to that. • Apple Launch 2017: Key products, prices and released dates • iPhone X v iPhone 8: the major differences 0:00 / 0:46 Apple launches the iPhone X in California If you like being at the cutting edge, and are about to buy a new iPhone, or are upgrading from, say, iPhone 6s, you’ll probably be happy to wait until November 3 and get an iPhoneX. Just keep stoking the piggybank with a few extra dollars in the meantime. If your approach is more conservative and cautious, if you are totally happy with the home button and fingerprint recognition, it’s a case of better the devil you know. You may want to buy an iPhone 8 or 8 Plus. And you’ll only be waiting till Friday next week, and pay a bit less. Coming back to KISS. In the end, the acid test will be whether it’s easier to operate this phone using gestures or a home button. The new iPhone 8, iPhone X and iPhone 8S. Picture: AFP The new iPhone 8, iPhone X and iPhone 8S. Picture: AFP If you analyse your actions movement by movement, all you currently need is a single jab to press the home button and to be authenticated. It works whether you are holding the phone or it’s on a table in front of you. Gesturing (sliding your finger up the phone) and showing your face to the phone’s camera seems to take more effort. And you’ll probably need to pick up your phone to test it. Sure, if you believe Apple, the odds of your phone being hacked open is less with face recognition: 1 to 1 million versus 1 to 50,000, but I am not perturbed by the 1:50,000 stat. I’ll be attracted to whatever is more convenient in the longer term. Today I had some hands on time with iPhone X and was able to use the new gestures system without a problem. Once I’ve tried out the system fully, I’ll be able to say which phone does better with the KISS test. There is of course the old adage — if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. The back of the new iPhone 8S. Picture: AFP The back of the new iPhone 8S. Picture: AFP On other matters, Apple showed its class when it revealed the way it was implementing a cellular watch — and this particularly applies in Australia — that connects directly to the cellular network and can take calls without a phone being around. Some Android phone makers have recently released watches that achieve this. You have one SIM with one number in the phone, and another regular SIM in the watch with a different phone number. Two phone numbers can lead to confusion. Do you message the phone, the watch or both, and you have two monthly or prepay accounts to pay. Apple gets around this by using one phone number for both. The SIM in the watch is an electronic SIM that, with authentication, copies across your iPhone phone number details to the watch. This requires authentication by Telstra, Optus and Vodafone who are coming aboard. Apple says the first two carriers will offer the feature at launch, with Vodafone providing it later this year. So when you go running, people who know your phone number and want to text you, can get a message to your watch, even when your phone is at another location and you can call them back, all with your regular number. This feature definitely does pass the KISS test and will be fun to try with Watch Series 3. Chris Griffith travelled to the Apple event in Cupertino courtesy of Apple Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on email Share more... Reader comments on this site are moderated before publication to promote lively and civil debate. We encourage your comments but submitting one does not guarantee publication. We publish hundreds of comments daily, and if a comment is rejected it is likely because it does not meet with our comment guidelines, which you can read here. No correspondence will be entered into if a comment is declined. 6 COMMENTS Sign in31 people listening + Follow Share Post comment as... NEWEST | OLDEST | TOP COMMENTS Avatar for Toni Toni 7 HOURS AGO It's edge to edge display falls short of samsung, LG and new comer Essential by inventor of Android, and the face recognition failed today. Not sure the almost 2 grand investment is worth the hype. FLAGSHARELIKEREPLY Avatar for AKA Peter AKA Peter 13 HOURS AGO What will an iPhoneX do except make more money for Apple? FLAGSHARELIKEREPLY Avatar for Anna Anna 12 HOURS AGO @AKA Peter do pay attention ... look at the specs and when all else fails ask a 15yo to explain it to you FLAGSHARE2SimonphilipLIKEREPLY Avatar for Lazybones Lazybones 10 HOURS AGO @AKA Peter Apple is not a charity, they make most of their money from the iPhone. It's good to see they have adopted the superior OLED technology at last. Samsung will be very happy to see that. FLAGSHARELIKEREPLY Avatar for Lloyd Lloyd 13 HOURS AGO Yes the KISS principle is always good. Will be interesting the hear the feedback about these new phones. Won't be rushing into one though as I have a 7plus and I am very happy with that - although thumb print recognition seems to be an issue. Gave up on this feature for unlocking phone as I often had trouble with it working - don't think my finger prints alter! I also have some concerns about wearing one of these new wrist phones with the issues around the radio magnetic output from such devices. We get enough exposure from our mobile phones but we are not wearing them close to our skin for up to 15 hours a day. I understand the current iWatches don't have these concerns as they do not contain a SIM card but rather connect to the iPhone with Bluetooth. You can't make calls on them but you can send brief SMS messages. FLAGSHARELIKEREPLY Avatar for Anna Anna 12 HOURS AGO @Lloyd most say if you have 7 then no need to go to 8 .. I'm still using 6 so time to upgrade FLAGSHARELIKEREPLY FROM THE HOMEPAGE CFMEU hit with $2.4m record fines QLD_CM_NEWS_CFMEUACTION_20JUN17 EWIN HANNAN The nation’s most militant union and its officials have been hit with record fines of $2.4m over an unlawful blockade. Hadgkiss told job ‘untenable’ Nigel Hadgkiss interview EWIN HANNAN Nigel Hadgkiss resigned after public service chief John Llloyd told him his position was untenable. ‘Murphy will be vindicated’ Morosi PRIMROSE RIORDAN, BRAD NORINGTON Junie Morosi vows her close friend Lionel Murphy will be vindicated by the release of thousands of classified documents today. Mutilation cloud lifts off Hastie OP SLIPPER 2; OP TEVARA SIN SIMON BENSON A Special Air Services soldier who severed the hands of three dead Taliban fighters has been cleared by the AFP. Victory on media reform looms Nick Xenophon Team leader Senator Nick Xenophon in the Senate chamber at Parliament House in Canberra, Wednesday, September 13, 2017. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING ROSIE LEWIS The most significant media reforms in over a decade are expected to pass parliament following last-minute negotations with crossbenchers. Wong crew’s outburst ‘new low’ Penny Wong RICK MORTON Labor’s attack on Nick Xenophon over media reform, has been labelled a “new low” by Communications Minister Mitch Fifield. Labor attack figures botched Question Time JOE KELLY Labor’s attack on the government over power bills is based on a botched analysis by Energy Consumers Australia. Super advice on teabags and sex Fringe TESSA AKERMAN Australian women are being encouraged to re-use tea bags and have regular sex to increase their superannuation.
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