IPhone X

Recently, my old Samsung phone had broke down, and as temporary replacement I borrowed my friend's old iPhone X until I buy a new one, and here I am genuinely surprised with how well this thing performs besides it being an 8 year old phone.

I have been using this phone for around a month, and have experienced slight lags, but it is not something that significantly affects my experience. For most tasks such as yeah browsing, messaging, social media and even playing PUBG - it runs surprisingly well.

However, the main problems I have encountered are with overheating and battery life. Even with light usage, the phone overheats. After looking onto it, I found one of the reasons for it to overheat on light usage is due to its degraded battery. The battery is on 72% and something with the battery providing unstable voltage which causes the phone's power management system to work harder, resulting in extra heat. The phone also lasts around 2-3 hours on low power mode during continuous use and do have to charge the phone often.

Given all this am thinking of replacing the battery which may resolve much of these issues with overheating and battery life. I am also even thinking of buying this phone from my friend in a cheap price. Like, I am starting to really like this phone. It performs well according to my needs, I like the size of the phone, and overall, it would be a cost-effective option for me.

I was using iPhones all my smartphone-life till the 6S and after that I jumped ship to Android because of Apple's insane prices of the X and XR and Jailbreaking kinda dying back then. First a Xiaomi Mi 8 and now a Samsung Galaxy S10. I love my S10 in theory but the physical size of Android devices and Samsung's hot and inefficient Exynos chip get on my nerves lately.

Now Jailbreaking seems back again and my local second-hand shop sells a iPhone X for 350€, assuming I can get a fresh battery in there, is a iPhone X still worth buying in 2021 coming off a Galaxy S10?