Apple's Budget iPhone X Has An Unavoidable Design Compromise

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In short, despite copying the so-called 'bezel-less' design of the more expensive second-generation iPhone X (details) and new iPhone X Plus (details), Apple's new budget iPhone X will have noticeably thicker bezels. In order to make the budget iPhone X so affordable, Apple is fitting it with an LCD panel rather than the more expensive OLED panels in the gen two iPhone X and iPhone X Plus. At its worst, you'll see that when modelled by Mac Otakara (below) the budget iPhone X (which I expect will simply be named 'iPhone' like the entry level 'iPad' and 'MacBook') looks cumbersome and almost like a toy version of the other two. I personally believe consumers should be able to overlook this and the other compromises the budget iPhone X makes because of how it keeps the price down. Then again, buyers of these new premium iPhones won't have a risk-free purchase either…___Follow Gordon on Twitter, Facebook and Google+More On ForbesiPhone Exclusive: Apple's Massive, Cheap iPhone RevealedApple Takes A Sizeable Risk With New iPhone XiPhone Exclusive: Apple's Radical Design 'Confirmed'Apple Report Reveals New iPhone Specs, PricesApple's Large, Cheap iPhone Gets Shown Off

Did Apple's internal iPhone X repair videos just leak?

Screenshot by Sean Hollister/CNETWhen you take your Apple iPhones, iMacs and MacBooks to an Apple Store for repair... are you curious how they get fixed? We may have just gotten a glimpse into that world, proprietary Apple tools and all. Assuming so, you can thank YouTuber Arman Haji for uploading 11 such videos covering the iPhone X, iMac Pro, iPhone 8 and a recent MacBook Pro as well. PT: Sure enough, the videos -- and in fact, Arman Haji's entire YouTube channel -- appear to have been taken down. Here's one of the videos as posted to a different YouTube channel:

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