iPhone X Unboxing, Hands-On & Setup

iPhone X Unboxing, Hands-On & Setup

- Benjamin Kerry & Gavin Lenaghan

Apple’s quantum leap of an iPhone, the iPhone X, has been officially released to retail... though whether you are able to get your own hands on it is a very different matter. In fact, pre-orders sold out within minutes of becoming available on Friday, October 27 - and, while Apple had indicated that there would be supply at its retail stores from November 3, that supply could very easily have gone by the time you read this. Still, the iPhone X has already been tested by many YouTubers.

A TANTALISING - IF ALSO ILLICIT - VIDEO

You’ve probably already seen quite a few of the iPhone X “hands-on” videos that appeared shortly after the September launch event, at which invited members of the press were able to put the handset through its paces. This is, of course, a standard arrangement at iPhone launch events, where Apple tends to set aside demonstration units for attendees to test and film. However, late October saw the emergence of various other videos in which the device was shown off.

The most notorious of those videos was one in which vlogger Brooke Amelia Peterson filmed herself visiting Apple’s campus, where her father worked as an engineer. Her father was seen at the on-site eatery Caffè Macs, where he used the iPhone X’s new facial recognition system Face ID to make a purchase using Apple Pay. Without him needing to even put a fingertip on a sensor, the transaction seemed to go through even more effortlessly than it would have done with Touch ID.