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Apple Announces iPhone X With Edge-To-Edge Display, Wireless Charging and No Home Button (theverge.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the latest-and-greatest dept.

At its event in Cupertino, California today, Apple unveiled the iPhone X to mark the 10th anniversary of the iPhone. It brings several new features including an edge-to-edge screen, Qi wireless charging, and Face ID. The Verge reports: Because of its edge-to-edge display, the iPhone has no place for a conventional home button, relying instead on a complex facial recognition system to unlock the phone. Called FaceID, the new system will replace TouchID, the home button sensor that's enabled fingerprint logins since 2013's iPhone 5S. Users can wake the phone by swiping up from the button instead of hitting the button. The same gesture will open the control panel once the phone is awake. The updated iPhone 8 will continue unchanged, including both the home button and TouchID. Apple also unveiled the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus, which are updated versions of the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus released last year. These new devices feature glass backs with support for wireless charging. The Verge provides some additional specs and features in its report: Apple has improved the display on the iPhone 8 line, adding the same True Tone technology it offers on the 10.5-inch iPad Pro to automatically adjust the screen based on the ambient light in the room to offer more accurate colors. Internally, Apple has upgraded the processor from the A10 Fusion found in the 7 to the A11 Bionic. It's a six-core chip with two performance cores that are 25 percent faster than the A10, and four performance cores that the company says are 70 percent faster that the old model. There's also a new Apple-designed GPU that's 30 percent faster, with the same performance as the A10 at half the power. On the camera front, there's a new 12-megapixel sensor on the iPhone 8 that is larger, faster, and finally has optical image stabilization. The iPhone 8 Plus also has new sensors, and offers f/1.8 and f/2.8 apertures now. The dual cameras on the 8 Plus also have a new "Portrait Lighting" feature to adjust the lighting for portrait shots. And Apple says that the improvements apply to video, too, with Apple executive Phil Schiller claiming that the new devices have the "highest quality video capture ever in a smartphone," with support for 4K/60fps video. Slow motion videos now support up to 1080p resolution at 240fps, doubling the the iPhone 7's 120fps option. The iPhone 8 will start at $699 for a 64GB model, while the 8 Plus will start at $799 for 64GB of storage. You can preorder these devices starting Friday, September 15th, and they will be released a week later on September 22nd.

UPDATE 9/12/17: The iPhone X will be priced starting at $999 for the 64GB variant. Pre-order will be available October 27th with shipments starting November 3rd.

11 of 570 comments (clear)

  1. It's only $999 by known_coward_69 · · Score: 5, Funny

    WTF?

    Why is it so cheap? Hoping it was at least $3000 so the peons couldn't afford one

    1. Re:It's only $999 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Will be with optional USB-C adapter.

  2. Re:Not want by HornWumpus · · Score: 4, Funny

    Point it at your junk when it wants the reference picture. Duh.

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    John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
  3. FaceID FAILURE!!! by HannethCom · · Score: 5, Funny

    The funniest thing was them trying to show it off working on stage, and it failed asking him to use his PIN instead because face recognition failed.

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    Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon what's the difference? All steal money from devs and control with walled gardens.
  4. Re:Not want by DontBeAMoran · · Score: 4, Funny

    Time not important. Only life important.

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    #DeleteFacebook
  5. Re:Not want by sexconker · · Score: 4, Funny

    Big badda boom.

  6. Re: Not want by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Muuuultipass

  7. Re:Underwhelmed. I was expecting something more. by MightyYar · · Score: 1, Funny

    Boss, it's creepy when you talk to me from the next stall. I'm trying to play Spaceward Ho!

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    W..w..W - Willy Waterloo washes Warren Wiggins who is washing Waldo Woo.
  8. Re:Not want by Farmer+Tim · · Score: 5, Funny

    But they could just send an instant message to it and let Pavlovian conditioning do the rest.

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    Blank until /. makes another boneheaded UI decision.
  9. Is that really a display with a bite out of it? by istartedi · · Score: 3, Funny

    Is that really display surface with a bite out of it on the X? What are you supposed to do with the two little devil-horns at the top? Ads I guess. Yeah, nevermind. Devil-horn advertising will be the hot new trend.

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    For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
  10. ComeFace by seoras · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Set your Apple Face ID to your comeface, so that if someone mugs you for your phone they at least have to wank you off first" - Frankie Boyle.