paulpearl

nhughes said:

wood1208 said:

If iPhone X and IOS 11, virtual home button appears under screen as picture and explanation suggested, it is like a home button under screen !!!. Tell you the truth, i played with iPhone X a bit and the black thin bar at the bottom for swipe up to get to the Home screen is awesome. I wish Apple just add that to the rest of iPhones so I don't have to click Home button to get to Home screen. Double tap to wake up screen and should do the same double tap where no apps are located to put the screen to sleep.

rrrize said:

wood1208 said:

If iPhone X and IOS 11, virtual home button appears under screen as picture and explanation suggested, it is like a home button under screen !!!. Tell you the truth, i played with iPhone X a bit and the black thin bar at the bottom for swipe up to get to the Home screen is awesome. I wish Apple just add that to the rest of iPhones so I don't have to click Home button to get to Home screen. Double tap to wake up screen and should do the same double tap where no apps are located to put the screen to sleep.

I agree. I got used to the "home bar" after just a few hours yesterday.  I really like it.  But on another note, I don't know about the notch at top.  I've heard all kinds of reviews of people saying they don't even notice it, but my experience has been quite the opposite.  It really stands out like a swolen nose, especially when the screen is completely white like in iMessages, Mail, Contacts and I even notice it and cannot help but feel a bit annoyed by it when looking at video. ...sigh. Otherwise I love the size and feel and spped and I really like FaceID.  Still playing with it so will discover more - but the notch is a no-g0 for me.

lightvox said:

Nope.  Not for me.  Already used to not having a Home button after less than a day, and I prefer not having a home button now.  Much easier using the phone one-handed without a home button.

Notch is also fine and doesn't bother me one bit.  Now that I've had the phone, I realized that without the notch, and with no home button, it would be really difficult to tell which side is top or bottom.  The notch helps me easily orient the phone.

I'm very happy with the home bar and swipe gesture, but I hate, hate, hate the new multitasking view/interface. The app icons/windows feel unwieldy, like they are slipping on ice when I interact with them, not quite doing what I want. I also find myself instinctively wanting to swipe up to force close, even though that no longer works. And force closing is now done by long pressing and tapping a tiny icon, which takes longer and is less convenient.

I wonder if Apple did this to discourage people from the bad habit of needlessly and obsessively force closing all of their apps.

Either way, I think it's a step backwards. Hopefully a future iOS update brings back swiping up to force close. Apple actually did something similar already with the iPad multitasking/control center view on iOS 11. Early betas required a long press and icon tap to close, but later betas (and the eventual final release) brought back swipe up to force close.

Regardless, swiping up to return home is great. And left and right to jump between apps is a pleasure too. But the rest of the multitasking experience, not so much.

Adambomb said:

Im one of those lucky people, I was up at 1:01AM MST and completed the order by 1:05AM and I was told delivery of 11/10-11/17, but a few hours ago it changed to 11/3 and it was for T-Mobile 256GB version. 

chrisbklyn said:

Yep, T-Mobile order that went thru at 3:07am ET and originally gave me a Nov 10-17 delivery has been updated to Nov. 3rd! Woo Hooo!!!!