Iphone X And Everything Apple Announced

Here’s what Apple announced this morning from the Steve Jobs Theater.

iPhone X – This is the phone you want if you’re a diehard Apple fanboy or fangirl. The iPhone X (pronounced “iPhone Ten”) is the company’s biggest iPhone redesign ever, complete with all the features you’ve heard rumors of this week.

“It is all screen,” Apple said. Say goodbye to the bezel (mostly) and say hello to a near edge-to-edge display (except for the top, where the camera lives), featuring the most durable smartphone glass ever. It has a new OLED display (“Super Retina Display”) with a 2436×1125 resolution.

The redesign removes the home button. To wake up your phone, you can raise-to-wake or tap the screen. Swipe up from the bottom to go home, or swipe up (and hesitate) to multi-task. Swiping up on existing iPhones can be less-than-perfect, so we’ll have to see how well this all works. To activate Siri, hold in the power button on the side, which is now bigger.

Having no home button also means having no TouchID sensor. In lieu of TouchID is FaceID, which Apple calls “the future of how we’ll unlock our smartphones” and will let you unlock your iPhone with your face. Powered by the TrueDepth camera system and coupled with Apple’s new neural engine (which is also hugely impressive), the face recognition software should be awesome. It is a 3D system that cannot be fooled by a 2D photo – or so they say. Your face data is protected with secure enclave and all of the security tools Apple is famous for.

The front-facing camera array takes Snapchat to the next level. And a new feature called Animoji is also going to be a crowd pleaser. All portrait modes are available with the front-facing camera.

The rear-facing cameras are 12 MP and better than on the iPhone 7 Plus and both feature OIS. The flash is also improved. The pics are stunning. And, of course, the cameras are tuned for AR.