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A couple of thoughts after playing with it over the weekend:
1) The phone is all glass, which makes it fragile. Do a search for iPhone X drop test and you will see a bunch of testers dropping their phones on the concrete to see how fragile they are. The early reports indicate the glass front and back shatters on the first drop. Apple charges $549 to do a repair on the X, so it's best to get a very rugged case. I bought the Spigen Tough Armor case. The other one I was looking at is the Otterbox Defender. Both are a bit chunky, but I'd rather have a chunky case than a $549 repair bill.
2) Wireless charging is interesting, but not quite there yet. At present Apple only supports 5W charging, which is a very slow charge. There are a bunch of "fast" wireless chargers out there that support up to 10W, but apparently they only work on Samsung phones right now. Apple is going to increase the charging capacity to 7.5W in a future IOS release, but it's not clear whether any of the fast chargers out there will work on an iPhone. There are two on the Apple web site (Mophie and Belkin) that cost $60 and are certified to work at 7.5W when the IOS upgrade is released, but this seems ridiculously expensive for a charger. The rumor is that Apple is encrypting the 7.5W charging option so that only chargers that pay a licensing fee to Apple will work. So it's not exactly an industry standard charging scheme as was first advertised.
I ordered a basic no name 5W charger from Amazon for $15 just to try it out. I did stop by Best Buy over the weekend and placed the phone (with the case on) on a Samsung charger, and it did indicate it was charging. So it works, but I suspect it will be slow, so maybe best used on a night stand for overnight charging.
1) The phone is all glass, which makes it fragile. Do a search for iPhone X drop test and you will see a bunch of testers dropping their phones on the concrete to see how fragile they are. The early reports indicate the glass front and back shatters on the first drop. Apple charges $549 to do a repair on the X, so it's best to get a very rugged case. I bought the Spigen Tough Armor case. The other one I was looking at is the Otterbox Defender. Both are a bit chunky, but I'd rather have a chunky case than a $549 repair bill.
2) Wireless charging is interesting, but not quite there yet. At present Apple only supports 5W charging, which is a very slow charge. There are a bunch of "fast" wireless chargers out there that support up to 10W, but apparently they only work on Samsung phones right now. Apple is going to increase the charging capacity to 7.5W in a future IOS release, but it's not clear whether any of the fast chargers out there will work on an iPhone. There are two on the Apple web site (Mophie and Belkin) that cost $60 and are certified to work at 7.5W when the IOS upgrade is released, but this seems ridiculously expensive for a charger. The rumor is that Apple is encrypting the 7.5W charging option so that only chargers that pay a licensing fee to Apple will work. So it's not exactly an industry standard charging scheme as was first advertised.
I ordered a basic no name 5W charger from Amazon for $15 just to try it out. I did stop by Best Buy over the weekend and placed the phone (with the case on) on a Samsung charger, and it did indicate it was charging. So it works, but I suspect it will be slow, so maybe best used on a night stand for overnight charging.