7 "new» iPhone X features that have long been in Android
Technologies / / December 19, 2019
Presentation of the iPhone X - the new flagship of the company Apple - has caused an unprecedented boom. Largely due to the fact that in this smartphone, in addition to an impressive iron fillings, there are several fresh features.
Fans of "apple" products wipe their tears of happiness, while Android users puzzled shrug. After all, most of the presented iPhone X branded chips there has long been on smartphones running Android.
1. Wireless charger
Using the back of the glass allowed to introduce wireless charging technology. It is encouraging that Apple did not once again come up with their own standards, and take advantage of existing technology Qi. This gives hope that the charging station for the iPhone will be able to produce, and third-party vendors.
In the Android world, this technology was introduced back in 2011. The first smart phone that began to support wireless charging, became LG Revolution.
2. Frameless design
"For more than ten years, we have strived to create iPhone, the entire front surface of which would occupy the display. With iPhone X we did it, "- said John Ive, Apple's design director.
Sorry, but in this matter, Apple has several late. Frameless first smartphone released by Sharp in 2014, then a powerful impetus to this idea gave Xiaomi Mi Mix. After that, almost all the leading manufacturers have released the device, in one way or another use these trends. The last and probably the most perfect example of this smartphone - Essential Phone.
3. Face Detection
Face ID iPhone X used to authenticate the user. Advanced Face Detection system allows you to safely unlock your iPhone, use Apple Pay, to log in to the application and to engage in other tasks requiring a high level of Privacy.
Excuse me, but something like this is available in the Android OS since version Ice Cream Sandwich, which was released in 2011. Yes, at the moment when this function was not perfect, and often faltering. But over the years, technology has been greatly improved and now works just fine.
4. Video recording with dual optical image stabilization
The wide-angle camera with an aperture f / 1,8 and a camera with a telephoto lens and aperture f / 2,4 seamlessly work together to provide an excellent quality of photos and videos. This was made possible thanks to an advanced stabilization system that, according to Apple approval, it first appeared in the iPhone X.
But in fact, it has become the first company Samsung is still in this matter. A similar image stabilization technology used in the Samsung Galaxy Note 8, which appeared only a few weeks earlier. It's a shame, but true.
5. Quick charge
Now Fast Charge Technology supports many smartphones. If we are talking about devices running Android, of course. No wonder, because the Quick Charge 1.0 standard was introduced back in 2013.
But then came 2017, and the owners of the new iPhone is now also able to quickly charge their devices. iPhone 8 and the X iPhone battery can be charged up to 50% in just 30 minutes, but only if you buy extra special power supply and cable for 6000 rubles. This is Apple's, baby, here you have to pay even for this.
6. OLED-display
The company's website states that "a magnificent display of Super Retina with a diagonal of 5.8 inches - the first OLED-display corresponding to high standards of iPhone." Indeed, iPhone X is the only smartphone company, which is equipped with this type of screen.
What, however, can not be said about the Android-smartphone. For example, the Samsung company, which is the main competitor to Apple, using similar matrices on their devices since the dawn of 2009.
7. Augmented reality
IN Presentation iPhone X Special attention was paid to the ability of the smartphone to use games and augmented reality applications. Although the developers have managed to achieve in this area a lot of progress, yet the iPhone X is not the first device using these functions.
For example, the smartphone Lenovo PHAB 2 Pro, released last year, used the new Tango AR technology from Google (now called ARCore). Then we saw the announcement of ASUS ZenFone AR, which is not only used augmented reality, but can also boast support for Google Daydream VR. Sorry, Apple, but even then you were not the first.