
How to customize Control Center in iOS 11 to your liking.That’s as much as a week-long vacation in the Caribbean, 100 months of Netflix binging, or 235 Pumpkin Spice Lattes from Starbucks. Speaking of emptying your bank account, the X costs $1,000. You’ll also need to spend another $40 or so on top of its retail price to protect the iPhone X. Then there’s the notch, that distracting cutout at the top of the display that could easily have been avoided. Also, Face ID, while accurate and ( mostly ) secure, isn’t as fast or convenient as Touch ID. Because there’s no home button, you’re required to learn new gestures, some of which aren’t very intuitive. So why wouldn’t it take the top spot? Well, the iPhone X takes a step back before taking two steps forward. On top of that, the dual-lens cameras are killer, battery life is somehow improved from the iPhone 8, and you can make digital animals sing karaoke. In their place: a gorgeous OLED edge-to-edge display, chrome stainless steel frame, and a bunch of sensors used for a new authentication method. Gone are all the iconic (and dated) design elements that made iPhones immediately recognizable. Just look at it: no home button, no bezels, no Touch ID. The third big design change since the original, the iPhone X is unlike any Apple phone that came before it. That crappy plastic stuck around, but I was too busy playing with apps to really notice. - M.W. With the 2G and 3G, the iPhone felt like a decent smartphone, but the 3GS felt like a whole different kind of device, despite looking pretty much identical to its predecessor.

The phone was a good deal more powerful than the 3G, and it could run some impressive games for the time, which caused a massive App Store boom. The 3GS was really the first iPhone that made the App Store a place to be. How the hell did this one get ranked so high, you ask? A little thing called the App Store. Its closest Android rivals in Samsung and LG not only kept the headphone jack but made devices so compact it makes you wonder how much room it took up in the first place. It’s OK because Apple is a trendsetter, right? Not exactly.

In a move that pissed everyone off, Apple mustered all of its “courage” and removed the headphone jack from its flagship device and released $160 electric toothbrush heads packed in a floss box. Sure, the camera is improved, but it took Google about a month to best it with the first phone it ever created.ĭo you like music? Too bad. We can easily forgive the faults of the 6 Plus for being the first large Apple phone, but the disappointment that is the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus will make you want to take back ever saying you’ll “wait ‘til things are ironed out in the second generation.” Practically identical to the 6, the 7 and 7 Plus only helped Apple catch up to its Android competitors by adding some water resistance and increased storage options. Surely, after all these years, Apple figured out a solution for keeping a glass phone safe from cracks and scratches, right? Wait, it did: super strong glass. Now it’s 2017 and people have all stopped dropping their phones, right? Yes, the iPhone 4 was a big leap forward in terms of design, but its glass panel was a $650 disaster waiting to happen. I can just imagine the reaction of every Apple engineer who worked for the company in 2010 when they discovered the iPhone would be going back to glass. Oh, and there’s glass on the back to accommodate wireless charging. There are also fewer colors to choose from, the 8 is heavier, and the price was raised. So what’s new about the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus aside from the predictable bump in specs and slightly improved version of iOS? Well, the camera is a bit better in low-light, and it now supports fast charging (if you’re OK buying two very expensive accessories). The iPhone 8 is another copy-and-paste job from Apple, except this time it’s just filler to hold everyone over until the iPhone X changes everything. No, that’s not another image of the iPhone 7, though we wouldn’t blame you for thinking that. Crazy Butt Stuff,” the novelty has fully worn off. - M.W. Once you’ve reprogrammed her to refer to you as “Mr. Siri is great if you’re trying to send a passive-aggressive text to your boss while driving and don’t want to smash into a school bus, but that’s pretty much it.

The other “marquee” feature on this industrial turd was Siri, which was somehow even worse then than it is now. It had a decent camera for the time, which is literally the only thing that got it up this high in the rankings. The iPhone 4s was basically Apple saying, “You wanted a larger screen? How about you go die in a cornfield.” There was almost nothing good about the iPhone 4s, besides the fact that it could play a half-dozen decent games that weren’t on Android.
