Are you interested in owning an iPhone X? I am not! The biggest reason…the facial recognition. If you look into how its done, the technology behind it is interesting, but oh so complicated. In fact, it is scary complicated! I would be afraid it could easily stop working. One good bump or drop of the phone and it might become unusable.
Facial recognition is a technology that is ahead of its time. The iPhone is not the first piece of equipment to use it…and many other devices that tried it have been less than successful. Our first article in the Mobile Technology section offers a few reviews of the facial recognition…and it is a mixed bag of opinions. There are enough negative thoughts to keep me from buying it.
I love my iPhone 6 Plus and have said so several times here. The fingerprint recognition technology works just great. Why Apple felt the need to change to a different system is beyond me…other than Apple wanted to do away with the home button and they could not make the fingerprint technology work without a button.
Apple always seems to want to find new solutions for problems that don’t exist.
Some of the Android phone manufacturers wanted to try facial recognition, but wound up putting the fingerprint button on the back of the phone. Hey, if it works perfectly, why change? If I had to get a new iPhone today, I would get the iPhone 8 with the good old fingerprint recognition button.
But read the reviews for yourself and you decide. -JRC
Tech News and Opinions
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