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Apple Announces iPhone X With Edge-To-Edge Display, Wireless Charging and No Home Button (theverge.com)
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.
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.
I'd like a plain "on" button, thank you.
FaceID seems like a change just for changes sake, and I'm skeptical about their claims about it being more secure.
The smartphone market is officially mature, as indicated by the fact that even Apple can't come up with anything other than incremental improvements and gimmicks.
All the things Samsung has had for awhile. My wife has been using that feature for months. I think I remember Apple fanboys dismissing the edge to edge display. But since it's Apple, it's cool now. I honestly don't mind companies adding features from their competitors, but it's the "Since it's Apple, it's awesome!" attitude. Apple is temporarily on par with Samsung.
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You use your unlock code, just like the guy on stage had to do when it didn't unlock for him during the big presentation.
WTF?
Why is it so cheap? Hoping it was at least $3000 so the peons couldn't afford one
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.
Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon what's the difference? All steal money from devs and control with walled gardens.
My mom would. A person who wants a reasonably new phone, doesn't want to show off, wants a couple of years worth of software updates, and doesn't want to spend $300 for the fancy display.
I have seen the Samsung edge to edge technology, and it is truly edge to edge. I just saw the iPhone X, and there is a definite bezel. It is a wrapping around piece of glass, but there is black between the screen and the side of the glass, so not a true edge to edge, even though they are using a Samsung display.
Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon what's the difference? All steal money from devs and control with walled gardens.
Someone who wants a home button.
I dunno, between the two the 8 looks like the more desirable phone to me.
The ONLY reason people buy iStuff is to show off. Get over it. That's the only 'value proposition' Apple has left. They have lagged in features for years now and now it's all 'OH LOOK SHINY NEW' as the lemmings flock to it.
Facial recognition doesn't take any photos, just like Touch ID didn't take an imprint of your finger. It converts it to a mathematical representation and does a comparison inside the Secure Enclave. The analysis it does is non-transferable.
You've got the double press the power (now the "selector"?) button to enable ApplePay now and they've probably disabled the auto-detection. If anything your scenario is more likely now with TouchID. My main issue with it is that it's not as seamless as using ApplePay with TouchID. Pull the phone out of my pocket, move the iPhone to the reader, wait for the iPhone to detect the reader and the card to appear and press the home button to confirm Now i've got to pull the phone out of my pocket, hold the phone to my face, double click the button and move the phone to the reader and then wait for the iPhone to detect the reader and hope that it detects my reader and not the one next to it as I move it over.
Dude, nobody cares about the headphone jack except slashdot whiners.
Or people who actually use their phones.
Between all models shown on the keynote slide, the iPhone SE is the only one that looks the size of a phone. All others are small tablets.
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My partner got an iPhone SE when her iPhone 6 died. It was cheaper and she likes the smaller form factor better. Not everyone cares to be cutting edge with absolutely everything.
Here's hoping the face scanning technology becomes user accessible as a general-purpose 3D scanner.
Wait a minute... Maybe that is the innovation here! An Apple device built to work outside Apple's ecosystem! Now, wouldn't that be something?
A combination of opening up the walled garden just a bit and releasing computers based on current-gen hardware would get me to give them another look.
APK quotes people (including myself) without context and should not be trusted. Just thought you should know.
I definitely wouldn't sweat paying for a good set of Bluetooth headphones.
I have yet to see a set of Bluetooth headphones, at any price, that can adequately replace wired headphones for my use case. The battery doesn't last nearly long enough.
Copy & paste has been in iOS since 3.0 which was back in 2009. But don't let reality ruin your out-of-date rant.
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I have yet to see a set of Bluetooth headphones, at any price, that can adequately replace wired headphones for my use case. The battery doesn't last nearly long enough
If you are only worried about battery life then you haven't been looking at the right headphones. My BTS Pro 66 have continuous playback rated at 40 hours.
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the new Mac Pro
With all these edge to edge displays, I hope they have technology that can prevent my phone from doing totally unpredictable things when I pick it up. Is that too much to ask for? This is a problem with my regular bezel edge phone, can't imagine what it will be like with an edge to edge phone.
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Someone who wants a phone instead of a slot on a waiting list.
You're assuming Face ID relies on photos (like most other smartphone facial recognition systems), but so far as we know, it doesn't. Rather, it works a lot more like the Kinect.
Basically, it uses an infrared dot projector and infrared sensor in the new "TrueDepth Camera System" to create a three-dimensional mesh of the user's face by projecting 30,000 IR dots onto your face, then detecting how they relate to each other. Based on the distances between the dots the phone is able to generate a 3D mapping of your face which is then mathematically represented, hashed, and stored in the Secure Enclave, in much the same way that fingerprints are handled with Touch ID. All of that is done without necessarily needing a photo to be taken. And, just to conjecture a bit, I wouldn't be surprised to find out that they apply filtering to the IR sensor when it's used for Face ID so that it doesn't capture the wavelengths associated with body heat emitted from faces (since filtering in that way would make it easier to track the dots), meaning that they may not even capture an image of your face in the infrared spectrum at all, let alone in the visible spectrum.
But, going back to the OP's question, Apple has explicitly confirmed to various news outlets that all information collected via Face ID stays on their user's devices, so even if they captured a photo, they've confirmed they won't get it.
Business Partner?
Girlfriend?
Wife?
Friend with benefits...?
Enquiring minds want to know....
But seriously...what's the deal with people not telling what their relationship is...."partner" says nothing.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
It's gonna be funny watching people try to hold the phone to the terminal and get their face in view at the same time.
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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.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
So your current Apple product is failing horribly, so you are considering getting a new Apple product? Why reward them for making a crappy phone that failed on you?
I had it for 3 years, so that's not too bad. Plus, my wife has had 3 crappy Android phones over the same period, and the design flaw the 6 plus had was corrected in the next iteration.
Taking guns away from the 99% gives the 1% 100% of the power.
"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.
Having used similar sensors (Structure, Kinect etc.) it's fun to play with but ultimately not high quality enough to do anything useful with.
Having a active lifestyle is one of the reasons I went wireless. I've seen a number of wired headphones get grabbed by various parts of gym equipment and bicycles to think about it. Of course this never happened to me because I kept my cord well managed but I just got rid of the cord and it became one less thing to worry about.
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or cussed while shelling out for a lightning splitter so they could both charge and use the adapter at the same time like you could do before with two less dongles.