At the inaugural event to be held in the Steve Jobs Theater at Apple’s enormous new ‘One Infinite Loop’ campus headquarters, Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, and Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide marketing, ran through the features of the company’s flagship smartphone, laying to rest all the rumours that have circulated about the new design throughout the year.
The iPhone X (ten, not ex) features an all-glass design with a 5.8-inch Super Retina OLED panel edge-to-edge display; Apple’s new A11 Bionic chip; wireless charging capability and an improved rear camera with dual optical image stabilisation. The handset also introduces Face ID, a highly secure new way for customers to unlock iPhone X, authenticate and use Apple Pay, using just their face, all enabled by the new front-facing 7-megapixel TrueDepth camera.
The all-screen glass display of iPhone X follows the curve of the body design, including the rounded corners. Apple says the...