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@macraven - I like the phone a lot. I use Kindle on my phone and it's a lot better on this one. It just seems clearer and with the larger screen; I can fit more of the page in the window. I am trying to get used to the new layout of stuff tho. The home button doesn't 'click' like the old one.. there's a setting to simulate a click with a vibrate that can be set to light, med, or strong vibrate. Funny thing, I actually wanted to try Apple pay today.. and I couldn't find it. It used to be just hold the home button and it popped up..now I am getting Siri when I hold the home button.. so it's probably a setting. (edit: I just looked, it is a setting and I have it set to double click the home button when phone is locked.)
I went to set up the Health app on the phone and under sex I had 3! choices.. male, female, other. I thought that was very funny and progressive.
One of my biggest issues is actually with Apple/iTunes. I couldn't download and save all my music from my old phone because I made the playlists/downloaded the songs on my work computer. I had to sync my phone with my work laptop to get the music. I searched the net and found a program ($29 for a yea, $39 for lifetime) that reads the iPhone like a hard drive and allows you to transfer everything on the phone to your computer and iTunes. So now my home computer has the same stuff as my work laptop. I think iTunes should allow you to download from your phone.
@Charade67 The 3 pictures below were with the Iphone. The first one is regular optics. The second is a 5.8 zoom and the third is 10x zoom. Claude Von Fang (the cat) was only about 5 feet away, so I think that's why the 10x zoom is a little blurry.
I'll try again outside with something farther away. The iphone 8+ also has portrait mode, where the main image is sharp and the background is blurred. The + actually has 2 lenses so it can do the portrait mode. Portrait mode has several different lighting effects, like stage light, stage light monochrome, and a few others. It also has panoramic shooting available.