Here are the highlights from todays iPhone announcement, the first to be held in the Steve Jobs Theater at Apple Park…
iPhone
- iPhone X (ten)
- Glass front & Back
- Surgical Grade Stainless Steel Frame
- IP67 Water & Dust resistant
- Space Grey or Silver
- 5.8″ ‘Super Retina’ OLED Display, 2436 x 1125, 458 ppi
- 3D Touch, True tone display
- New CPU – A11 Bionic, 6 Cores up to 60% Faster
- No Home Button, Swipe Up instead
- No Touch ID – Now Face ID (Works with Apple Pay)
- TrueDepth Camera System and Neural Engine
- All facial recognition processing done locally on phone
- 12MP Rear Wide-angle ƒ/1.8 & telephoto ƒ/2.4 cameras, dual OIS
- HEIF and JPEG
- New beta Studio Lighting feature
- 4K at 24, 30, 60 FPS, 1080p at 30, 60, 120, 240 FPS, HEVC and H.264
- ‘Tuned’ for AR
- Front Camera – Portrait Mode selfies
- Qi Wireless Charging
- Battery 2 Hours more than iPhone 7
- New ‘AirPower’ charging system coming 2018 – charges iPhone, Watch S3 & AirPods
- 64GB £999, 256GB £1,149
- Order Oct 27 – Ships Nov 3rd
- iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus
- Glass Front & Back
- Aluminium Frame
- Silver, Gold or Space Grey
- Stereo Speakers (25% Louder, Deeper Bass)
- New CPU – A11 Bionic, 6 Cores up to 60% Faster
- A10 GPU – up to 30% Faster
- New 12MP Camera Sensor
- New Studio Lighting feature on Plus
- 4K 60 FPS, 1080p 240fps
- Camera calibrated for AR
- Qi Wireless Charging
- 8 – 64GB £699, 256GB £849
- 8 Plus – 64GB £799, 256GB £949
- Order Sept 15th – Ships Sept 22nd
- iOS 11 Ships Sept 19th
Apple Watch
- Apple Watch Series 3
- LTE Cellular built-in
- Integrated ‘electronic’ SIM
- Same physical case size as S2
- Stream Apple Music from your wrist
- W2 Chip, Barometer, Swimproof
- 70% Faster CPU
- New WatchOS 4 – Available September 19th
- $329 without LTE, $399 with LTE (S2 from $299)
- Order Sept 15th – Ships Sept 22nd
Apple TV 4K
- 4K and HDR
- With A10X CPU
- 2xCPU Power over previous gen. 4x Graphics
- Order Sept 15th – Ships Sept 22nd
Thank you thank you thank you. I worked from 7am till 2.15 flat out today, missed the keynote, I needed a summary like yours. That was a proper flash briefing!
Thanks @Mat 🙂
Mark – many thanks – your summaries get the point, excellent … when read or hear of a new one coming out, always come here for what matters …
@CJUK – thanks Chris 🙂