I get variable speeds depending on what time of day it is and where I am in the city, but now it's more consistent. I can get reception in my office, although not as fast as I would like, but I don't have to step outside anytime I need to use my phone.ĪT&T LTE is what it is. My phone basically didn't work or worked slowly unless I was using it during off peak hours or on wi-fi.Īll of that is gone now. I didn't get any reception in my office building. I will tell anyone who will listen, that my iPhone X has connectivity issues. Perhaps the photos look 'too digital' with the Smart HDR feature (sometimes I want the shadows to be shadows), but what I do know I'll be shooting with my iPhone more and more instead of taking along by Sony RX100 V. Having a clean shot is crucial since I usually put my photos through some type of post processing. With the new processing algorithms Apple uses in the XS, photos are more well controlled and have greater dynamic range.

Blown highlights were a problem for me on the X, despite its supposed improvements. So when they iPhone gets it wrong I can change a few settings and get it right.Įxposure is greatly improved as well. The iPhone XS Max now allows me to control the bokeh effect by changing the aperture variable after taking the shot. Understandably, one can't expect bokeh quality you would get from a DSLR, but for a smartphone, when the effect worked, it worked pretty well. It couldn't tell the subject from the background and thus, you would get unnatural looking blur. Portrait Mode would simply over compensate its bokeh effect. It needed more work, especially when compared to The Pixel 2. The top feature I was eager to see was the 'portrait mode'. I had just came from the iPhone 6S, so the camera improvements were noticed. When I first got my iPhone X, I went out and explored Galveston Island and Moody Gardens to get 'sample' photos. I got the X because I could have the same screen size, yet in a smaller package. I don’t know anything about the science behind all this, but this has to be the best screen in a smartphone ever. There’s so much more room to process photos, view videos, and create movies. With the XS Max, I see what the hype was about.Ĭolors are properly saturated, vibrant, whites are whites, and blacks are blacks on the 6.5” inch canvas. I thought it looked the same as my LCD based 6S Plus. I didn’t see the big deal about OLED on the iPhone X. The screen is huge and not in a distracting way. When the iPhone XS Max launched, I couldn't leave the X behind fast enough. I've wiped and reset the phone more times than I care to count.

Unfortunately, my experience with the iPhone X wasn't a great one. It was the phone I had been waiting for, or so I had thought. Now the top place for best iPhone of all time is the iPhone XS Max. My favorite iPhones of all time have been the iPhone 4S and the iPhone 6S. I've owed all of the iPhones since the 3GS, with the exception of the iPhone 7. It's the same as my other iPhones, but yet different. There's something about the iPhone XS Max.

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