Apple Introduces The iPhone X

The iPhone of the future… arriving November

- Gareth Beavis & Rob Mead-Green

APPLE has announced the best iPhone it’s ever made, delivering a killer combination of advanced features that put it back at the forefront of the smartphone space. The new iPhone X (pronounced “ten”) is also the most expensive iPhone it has ever made.

With prices ranging from $999 for the 64GB version to $1,149 for the 256GB, iPhone X had better deliver – it does on paper. For a start, it comes with a 5.8-inch Super Retina HD display that almost fills the whole of the front of the device, save for a cutout at the top which contains the new TrueDepth camera among other innnovations (more on these in a moment). The almost bezel-less display has a resolution of 2548x1125 pixels at 458 ppi. It also marks a shift away from the LCD technology used in previous iPhones (and the iPhone 8/8 Plus) toward OLED, delivering life-like colors and deep, dark blacks with a contrast ratio of 1,000,000:1.

There’s something else, too – because the display virtually takes up the whole of the front, Apple has ditched both the Home button and Touch ID in favor of Face ID. Now you can simply look at your iPhone to unlock it, while a swipe up from the bottom of the device takes you to the Home screen.

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