iPhone X, iPhone 8, Apple Watch Series 3 and Apple TV 4K – Your Cheat Sheet

iPhone X

Here are the highlights from todays iPhone announcement, the first to be held in the Steve Jobs Theater at Apple Park…

iPhone

iPhone X

  • 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 X Front Camera

 

  • 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

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4 Comments on "iPhone X, iPhone 8, Apple Watch Series 3 and Apple TV 4K – Your Cheat Sheet"

  1. 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!

  2. 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 …

  3. @CJUK – thanks Chris 🙂

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