IPhone XS teardown shows few changes aside from the battery
- by Clyde Nash
- in Technology
- — Sep 22, 2018
iPhone fans began lining up outside the Apple Store at Westfield Century City at 2 p.m. Thursday in anticipation of the phone's debut Friday. Something else that often happens this time of year is the trolling of iPhone fans, and this year we have Huawei poking fun by offering "mind-boosting" juice that doesn't contain a trace of "Apple" to customers outside Apple's flagship store on Regent Street in London.
Last but not least, Apple's 6.1-inch LCD-equipped iPhone XR is slated to offer 1.5-hours or longer of additional battery life in comparison to its most direct predecessor, the iPhone 8 Plus.
Just like everyone else, U.S. Cellular is selling the iPhone XS starting at $999, and the larger XS Max starting at $1,099.
As a result, many mainland buyers, and in particular scalpers who had hoped to make quick money by "flipping" the devices, are reportedly in a panic, rushing to cancel their orders with Apple. The 20-year old student arrived at the Apple store at 6am for purchasing two iPhone XS Max phones.
According to a survey of people in line conducted Friday by Loup Ventures, 70 percent of respondents were seeking to buy the iPhone XS Max, a model that ranges in price from $1,099 to $1,449.
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Digicape, South Africa's largest independent Apple retailer, have announced their prices, so let's start with the iPhones. In India, an average earner can well forget about buying the new iPhone. The XS Max is the closest iPhone yet to carrying a computer in your pocket, and the version with 512 GB of storage costs as much as one: $1,450. Inside was a review sample of the iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max.
When we went hands-on with the iPhone XS and XS Max, we were mainly struck by how similar they felt to the iPhone X-particularly the iPhone XS.
Another significant revelation worth noting is that all three of Apple's 2018 iPhone models sport additional RAM memory in comparison to their direct predecessors. "When you're used to the bigger size it's hard to go back to a smaller one".
The iPhone X looks nearly identical to the newest stuff, so no one will really know.
