Reasons I'm Not Buying an iPhone X (or iPhone 8)

"Well, it's a value price, actually, for the technology you're getting". But it's a price I'm not willing to pay - and I suspect others might be taking the same stance.

A new feature on the iPhone X, Animoji, will allow users to send emojis that mirror their movements and speech. And though the dual-camera setup on the iPhone 8-Plus is slightly inferior to the X's - the X supports optical image stabilization (OIS) for both lenses rather than just one, and has a slightly larger aperture for its telephoto lens - both deliver major improvements compared with the iPhone 7-Plus' camera with the help of better sensors and image-processing. Beyond the work the company has done to keep the wrong people out of the phone, Apple claims that Face ID will let the right person in even in the dark, while wearing glasses or a hat, and after growing a beard. The iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus launches September 22 while the iPhone X will be coming to stores November 3. Its tests showed the iPhone 8-Plus outperforming the 7-Plus by 67% when running the 3DMark IS graphics benchmark, by 28% when running the popular Geekbench 3 CPU benchmark in single-core mode and by 84% when running Geekbench 3 in multi-core mode.

Apple isn't the only one climbing the ladder to the $1,000USD smartphone. I counted the word "disappointment" 34% more often than "innovative", while "lackluster" is popular enough this year to show up as frequently as the neutral "announced". I guess if I want to be among those to own such technologies, I would have been eager to get my hands on the iPhone X.

"We want to protect your data because we know it's yours, not ours".

iPhone 6: The base model of the iPhone 6, introduced in 2014, was initially priced at $649. Apple is good at that kind of marketing, and has been since the very first iPhone ads. The iPhone 6 Plus started at $749. Check out the new ad for the Apple iPhone 8 and Apple iPhone 8 Plus by clicking on the video at the top of this story!

Both the iPhone X and iPhone 8 are available in 64GB and 256GB sizes and both have the same selection of connectivity options, including Wi-Fi, 3G, 4G, Bluetooth 5.0 and NFC (though only for Apple Pay). Either you will be on the Apple side or another brand's, depending on what you choose to believe in, as well as your principle of having the "latest and best". Roll back to last fall when Tim Cook unveiled the iPhone 7.

The images don't seem to reveal anything unusual with the way the devices are packaged, however it's always exciting to get a preview of upcoming iPhones before they are meant to be released. "We are investigating a fix for a future software release". And previous updates have added driver-assist features like autosteer, made its vehicles quicker, and extended driving range for some customers fleeing Hurricane Irma.