THE LONG AWAITED iPhone X is official, with the firm unveiling the 10th-anniversary device at its much-hyped Apple Event on Tuesday.
The
iPhone X (pronounced iPhone 10) is the company's first smartphone to feature a full-screen display, as it sets its sights on the likes of the
Galaxy Note 8. There's also an all-new 'Super Retina' resolution, a reinforced glass design and support for wireless charging, with the iPhone X arriving with support for the Qi charging standard.
We've rounded up everything we know about the iPhone X below, and will update this article as soon as we hear more.
Release dateAs expected, the iPhone X won't be released at the same time as the new iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus, which will start shipping on 22 September.
Instead, Apple has announced that iPhone X pre-orders will begin on 27 October, with shipping to begin 3 November.
Naturally,
Carphone Warehouse has been quick to announce that it'll be stocking the three new iPhones, and pre-registration has kicked off for the iPhone X. It has also started taking pre-orders for the
iPhone 8 and
iPhone 8 Plus.
UK operator Three has been quick to announce that it will offer all three new iPhones but has yet to cough on pricing details.
Vodafone has confirmed that it will offer the iPhone X, as well as both the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus. Interested customers can
register their interest here.
Virgin Mobile has confirmed that it will be selling the iPhone X, as well as
Apple's iPhone 8 and
8 Plus handsets.
Specs- 5.8in Super Retina (2436x1125) OLED edge-to-edge display
- New 'all-glass' design with IP67 certification
- 143.6x70.9x7.7 mm, 179g
- Wireless charging support
- Apple A11 chip with Apple-designed GPU
- Face ID
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iOS 11 with improved Siri, P2P payments- Vertical 12MP dual cameras with OIS, 7MP front-facing camera
- Support for LTE speeds up to 450Mbps
- Wireless charging/fast charging support
- Battery life quoted at 21 hours of talk time
- 64GB/256GB storage
Latest news2/10/17: Apple ain't the only winner if its flagship iPhone X sells well, as it turns out that Samsung will make $110 (around £82) per device sold. That's according to Counterpoint Technology Market Research conducted for
The Wall Street Journal, which says that as Samsung supplies OLED displays for the iPhone X - along with batteries and capacitors - the firm "is likely to earn about $4bn more in revenue making parts for the iPhone X than from the parts it makes for its own flagship Galaxy S8 handset."
2/10/17: Apple has released an environmental report bigging up the green credentials of its iPhone X. For example, it boasts that the smartphone's materials are free from the likes of arsenic, mercury and PVC, and notes that 100 per cent of packaging fibres "are sourced from responsibly managed forests, bamboo, waste sugarcane, or recycled paper." The company calculates that the total estimated greenhouse gas emissions for the iPhone X over its entire lifecycle are 79kg CO2e, of which 80 per cent is during production, 17 per cent in use, 2 per cent transport and 1 per cent recycling.
29/9/17: Punters after an iPhone X might not be able to find stock until "January at the earliest", according to analyst Gene Munster. This is due to production hold-ups, which earlier this week were blamed on Apple's 'complex' camera system used for Face ID authentication. Jan Dawson, an analyst at Jackdaw Research, predicts that iPhone X stock won't to be able to meet demand until "sometime in the first quarter".
28/9/17: Apple has
released more details about the iPhone X's Face ID functionality in a bid to address some of the privacy concerns surrounding the face-scanning tech. For example, the firm points out that information collected by Face ID - including infrared images of your mug - won't be stored on your device, and notes that images are also cropped to avoid grabbing background info. Apple also points out several instances when Face ID won't work, including when your phone has just been switched on, where there have been five unsuccessful attempts to match a face or if you initiate the Emergency SOS feature.
27/9/17: Apple's TrueDepth camera system, used for face recognition on the iPhone X, could be holding up production. So says respected analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who notes that the "complex" system is the reason Apple is struggling to achieve mass production, and likely the reason the device will be in short supply until next year.
Kuo said, via
MacRumours: "TrueDepth camera may be main production bottleneck of iPhone X ramp. The 3D sensing (TrueDepth camera) on iPhone X is composed of a structured-light system, time-of-flight system and a front-facing camera, which represents a far more complex structure than those of rivals. It will, therefore, be harder to achieve mass production. While we project iPhone X will see output ramp up meaningfully in mid/ late October, tight supply may only start to ease in 1H18F due to strong demand."
26/9/17: Apple's Tim Horton, a member of the firm's WebKit team, has urged web developers to embrace the iPhone X's unusual 'notch' cutout.
In a post on Friday, he insists that "content is automatically inset within the display's safe area so it is not obscured by the rounded corners", and has offered up tips on how to properly build websites for the iPhone X to ensure that content isn't be obscured by the sensor housing, home indicator, or rounded corners.
25/9/17: Apple's iPhone X might not be able to support Gigabit LTE, according to reports. While
a teardown of the iPhone 8 revealed a Qualcomm X16 modem with Gigabit LTE support, Apple has also made some units with an Intel modem that isn't equipped to support the super fast speeds.
21/9/17: The iPhone X could face further delays, according to Raymond James chip analyst Christopher Caso. He writes the production of the handset likely hasn't yet begun, and notes that it could be hit by further production delays. Caso said: "While our checks are ongoing, initial feedback from our meetings suggests that final production of iPhone X has not yet begun, with production expected to commence in mid-October. That production start is about a month later when compared to expectations a month ago, and about two months later than expectations at the end of June."
20/9/17: While many have bemoaned the iPhone X's £999 price-tag, Apple CEO Tim Cook has said that it's a "value price" based on the technology inside the phone. Speaking on Good Morning America this week, Cook said: "Most people are now paying for phones over long periods of time, and so very few people will pay the price tag of the phone initially. Also most people actually trade in their current phone, and so that reduces the price further, and some carriers even throw in subsidies and discounts." Er.
19/9/17: KGI analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has said that Apple likely won't be able to meet demand for the iPhone X until next year, with supply set to be "limited" in 2017. In a note seen by
MacRumours, Kuo said: "Due to supply constraints, we expect market demand won't be fully met before 1H18. We revise down our forecast for 2017F iPhone X shipments from 45-50 million to around 40 million units, but we, therefore, revise up our 2018 iPhone X shipment estimate to 80-90 million units."
18/9/17: Apple's A11 Bionic chip has been put through its paces in
GeekBench 4, and has crushed the likes of the Galaxy Note 8, Galaxy S8 and
OnePlus 5. The iPhone X's multi-core score came in at 10,069, trumping the Exynos 8995-powered Note 8 which scored 6,784. Antutu benchmarking scored have also leaked, and show the iPhone X with a combined score of 226,058 - more than 45,000 points ahead of the closest Android competitor.
15/9/17: Apple's Face ID technology will support just one registered face per device,
TechCrunch reports. This could be an issue for some that have the fingerprints of their partner, or kids, registered on their current iPhone, with devices currently supporting up to five fingerprints per device.
14/9/17: Apple has spoken out about the Face ID fail (
below) it suffered on Tuesday and has blamed the glitch on a lockout mechanism which was triggered by clumsy staff handling the device. A company spokesperson told
Yahoo: "People were handling the device for [the] stage demo ahead of time and didn't realise Face ID was trying to authenticate their face.
"After failing a number of times, because they weren't Craig [Federighi], the iPhone did what it was designed to do, which was to require his passcode."
