🇮🇪 𝐆𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐏𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝟏𝟏 𝐏𝐫𝐨 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐜𝐮𝐩 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐞. 🔶 𝐃𝐨 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐳𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐨!

Honestly, I stopped noticing the notch roughly two days after I got the iPhone X in 2017 and haven't really thought about it since. Hole punchers or choochers either. It's just the big foreheads and chins that still bother me. They're a waste of whatever extra display and data you could be cramming up in there.

Like with the iPhone 11, though, I'd love to see what little is left of the bezels just totally blown away and have the display run full on into the steel antenna band around the edges. Screen to bezel ratio be damned, that little shave and haircut would freshen the whole thing right up and leap Apple back to the front of the modern-looking phone pack.

A week in, and I'm still preferring the 5.8-inch version. That's even after spending a good part of the last decade on the previous plus-sized iPhones. I do constantly go back and forth to the 6.5-inch Max as well, and I love it for video and especially Display Zoom. I don't need it yet but I'm reassured by it being there.

But, when I'm walking around, The West Wing-style, the 5.8-inch is just the perfect balance of display to body size. At least for me.

There's still a Lightning port on the bottom. I've been a fan of Lightning for a long time. It solved many of the problems and provided much of the functionality of USB-C, but came out years earlier. So, everyone using an iPhone could enjoy those advantages while everyone else was still stuck on microUSB … or worse.

Now, though, USB-C has been on the market for a while and is becoming increasingly ubiquitous. Apple's even switched to it on the iPad Pro.

Sure, it's still a hot mess in many ways. One unified plug design that may or may not carry PD power, USB 3, 3.1, Thunderbolt, or soon-to-be USB-4 speed.

But, I can plug an SSD drive into my iPad Pro and it just works while my iPhone Pro needs an adapter and a powered one at that.

In addition to the iPad Pro, Apple went all-in on USB-C super early for the MacBook Pro. It feels like they could have done the same with the iPhone when they took it to X, and certainly now that they're making it Pro.

That haven't though, at least not yet. And, especially at the high end, it's iPhone users who are now starting to miss out on the advantages.

Like the iPhone 11, the back is milled out of a single piece of glass. With the Pro, though, that glass is then textured to give it a matte finish that, to my eye, looks a lot less like glass, and a lot more like the textured aluminum of years past. But, Apple is maintaining contrast by leaving that camera bump part shiny. The exact opposite of the iPhone 11.

I'm guessing they feel that, since that bump just won't be ignored, they might as well go all in and highlight it. I'd have been happier, though, if they'd just made it matte as well. The finish is just that good.

The glass iPhones have been the slipperiest phones I've owned since the Nexus 4, which could go from dead center of a level dining room table to plummeting off the edge in a half-hour flat. The glass iPhones aren't that bad, but close. Especially and polished surfaces.

Apple and Corning have whipped up yet another stronger, more scratch and shatter-resistant formulation for the iPhone 11. But, it's these new, textured finishes that I'm really counting on to make just that extra little bit of difference. And, so far, so far less slick.