With the new iPhone 8 launching this Friday, should you wait for the iPhone X which is launching in early November? We run down the main differences between the handsets and let you know whether the iPhone X is worth the extra money.
Apple announced three new Apple iPhones at its special event at its all new Steve Jobs Theater at their new spaceship campus on 12 September 2017, the iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, and the flag-ship iPhone X or iPhone 10. For those of you thinking about upgrading your phone and prefer the smaller handsets we’ll look at the two phones and see which is the one you should get.
With such a big difference in price between the two handsets, starting from £699 for the iPhone 8 and £999 for the iPhone X, is it really worth the extra £300 that Apple wants to charge you?
Many of the high end features in the iPhone X like the A11 Bionic processor, iOS 11 and wireless charging are all included in the iPhone 8. The iPhone 8 only has 2GB of RAM compared with 3GB on the iPhone X, the rear cameras are slightly better in low light on the iPhone X than the iPhone 8 and there is no home button on the iPhone X, call us old fashioned but we actually prefer a physical button rather than swiping up from the bottom to return to the home screen of your iPhone.
The main difference of course is the edge to edge OLED display on the iPhone X, its Dolby vision and HDR10 compliant and the screen pops to life with its wide colour gamut. The size of the displays is 5.8″ on the iPhone X vs 4.7″ on the iPhone 8, looking very similar to the Samsung S8 we’re not sure we like the way the screen wraps around the earpiece speaker, front camera and proximity sensors, its just not a very clean look thats aesthetically pleasing for such a high end phone and will cause the app developers many challenges and problems to overcome.
Now we come to the biggest difference in our opinion… THE PRICE! £300 of your hard earned cash for the privilege of owning the iPhone X, not only is that a crazy sum of money for the upgrade but you are also giving Apple the green light and saying its ok to charge so much for a phone.
In conclusion we know the iPhone 8 is the one for us, we just can’t justify that price tag for what we are getting in exchange especially as Apple doesn’t even include any wireless chargers out of the box on either of the models, at the prices we are expected to pay they should be included in our opinion.