Recording summary · May 2018
Why I Regret Buying The iPhone X [mwoARadzFjU]
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Overview
Daniel purchased a silver 256GB iPhone X after eight years on Android but quickly came to regret the choice despite admiring its design, speed, and portrait photography capabilities.
Daniel expressed dissatisfaction with several iPhone X features, including the unmutable camera shutter sound on the Japanese version, forward-facing microphone placement that muffles behind-camera narration, lack of a wide-angle lens, missing video pause button, protruding camera bump causing table wobble, missing real-time beauty filters, and unexpected iMovie crashes.
Themes
iPhone X design and performance advantages, balanced against application crashes in iMovie.
Mandatory camera shutter sounds on the Japanese iPhone X and potential workarounds.
Comparison of audio recording, camera lens versatility, and body stability between the iPhone X and the LG G5.
Absence of real-time beauty filters and confronting personal insecurities regarding facial freckles.
Developments
Daniel purchased an iPhone 4 in 2010 as a first smartphone.
Daniel purchased a silver 256GB iPhone X.
Uncertainties & gaps
Whether jailbreaking the phone or using an alternative app store enables deletion of camera shutter sound files.