This is a concise yet detailed outline of new iPhone 8, 8 Plus, and iPhone X features from the product September 12, 2017 Apple Event held at the Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino, California.

iPhone 8 – All New All Glass

• Glass back with custom aluminum alloy bezel available in Silver, Space Gray and a new Gold finish.
• Retina HD display with True Tone
• Touch ID
• Wireless Charging!
  • Made possible by glass back
  • Qi (chi) open wireless standard
  • Fast-charge capable
• Water and Dust resistant to a microscopic level
• New Loader 25% louder stereo speakers with deeper base
• A11 Bionic Chip – Most powerful ever in a smartphone.
  • Two high performance cores – 25% Faster than A10
  • Four high-efficiency cores – 70% Faster than A10
  • 2nd-gen Apple-designed Performance Controller – 70% Faster multithread workloads
  • Apple-designed Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) – 30% Faster than A10
  • Apple-designed Image Signal Processor (ISP)
    • Faster low-tight autofocus
    • Improved pipel processor
    • Hardware multiband noise reduction
  • Apple-designed video encoder
  • Secure enclave
• iPhone 8 Camera
  • 12 MP All-new sensor with deeper pixels and a new color filter
  • Quad-LED True Tone Slow Sync flash
  • Optical image stabilization
• iPhone 8 Plus Dual Cameras
  • Photos
    • 12 MP All-new sensors with deeper pixels and a new color filter
    • f/1.8 and f/2.8 apertures
  • Quad-LED True Tone Slow Sync flash
  • Optical image stabilization
  • Improved Portrait Mode
  • Portrait Lighting Mode (Beta)
    • Applies advanced machine learning to duplicate advanced studio lighting effects in real time.
  • Video
    • Highest quality video capture ever in a smartphone – 4K 60 fps
    • Apple-designed video encoder
    • Faster video frame rates
    • Real-time image and motion analysis
    • Slow Motion – 1080p 240 fps
  • Augmented Reality
    • Hardware and AR Kit software deeply integrated
    • Cameras custom tuned for AR
    • Low-light and 60 fps
    • New gyro and accelerometer
    • Accurate motion tracking
    • A11 Bionic Processor
      • CPU for world tracking and scenes
      • GPU renders realistic graphics
      • ISP real-time lighting
• Wireless
  • LTE Advanced
  • BlueTooth 5.0
  • W1 for Air Pods, Beats X and Beats Studio 3 headphones
  • Wireless charging

iPhone 8 and 8 Plus Pricing and Availability

iPhone 8 – 4.7” True Tone Display

• 64GB – $699
• 256GB – $849

iPhone 8 Plus – 5.5” True Tone Display

• 64GB – $799
• 256GB – $949

Preorder 9/15 Available 9/22

iOS 11 Upgrade Available 9/19

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One More Thing – iPhone X

“Biggest Leap Forward Since The Original” Tim Cook

Glass back with- Surgical grade stainless steal bezel available in Silver and Space Gray.

• Super Retina display
  • Edge to edge
  • Corner to corner
  • 5.8” diagonal
  • 2436×1125 resolution
  • 458 ppi
  • OLED technology
    • One million-to-one contrast ratio
    • High resolution
    • Thinness
    • Brightness
    • Wide color support
    • Color accuracy
  • HDR display
  • Dolby Vision and HDR10
  • 3D Touch
  • True Tone display
• NO HOME BUTTON!!!
  • Raise or tap the screen to wake
  • “Hay Seri” or press side button
• Face ID – Facial authentication
  • TrueDepth camera system
    • Front camera
    • Infrared camera
    • Flood illuminator
    • Dot projector
    • Ambient light sensor
    • Proximity sensor
    • Speaker
    • Microphone
  • Advanced mathematical modeling of your face.
  • Neural Networks
    • Specialized hardware built for a set of machine learning algorithms
  • Neural engine
    • Duel-core design
    • 600 billion operations per second
    • Real-time processing of Face ID
  • Easy Setup – learns your face and adapts over time.
  • Works day and night
  • Can’t be spoofed with photographs or masks
  • Face data protected by secure enclave with on-device processing
  • Requires user attention to unlock
    • Does not work when you are looking away or have your eyes closed.
  • Chances of Random person opening 1 in a 1,000,000
  • Works with Apple Pay apps
    • To access Apple Pay double click on the side button.
• Animated emojis tied to facial tracking from HELL! – NOT NUN SAFE!!!
• iPhone X Plus Dual Cameras
  • Photos
    • 12 MP All-new sensors with deeper pixels and a new color filter
    • f/1.8 and f/2.4 apertures
  • Quad-LED True Tone Slow Sync flash with 2x better uniformity of light
  • Dual optical image stabilization
  • Better low-light zoom
  • Improved video stabilization
  • Improved Portrait Mode
  • Portrait Lighting Mode (Beta)
    • Applies advanced machine learning to duplicate advanced studio lighting effects in real time.
  • Video
    • Highest quality video capture ever in a smartphone – 4K 60 fps
    • Apple-designed video encoder
    • Faster video frame rates
    • Real-time image and motion analysis
    • Slow Motion – 1080p 240 fps
  • Augmented Reality
    • Hardware and AR Kit software deeply integrated
    • Cameras custom tuned for AR
    • Low-light and 60 fps
    • New gyro and accelerometer
    • Accurate motion tracking
    • A11 Bionic Processor
      • CPU for world tracking and scenes
      • GPU renders realistic graphics
      • ISP real-time lighting
• Front Side True Depth Camera
  • Portrait Lighting
• A11 Bionic Chip – Most powerful ever in a smartphone.
  • Two high performance cores – 25% Faster than A10
  • Four high-efficiency cores – 70% Faster than A10
  • 2nd-gen Apple-designed Performance Controller – 70% Faster multithread workloads
  • Apple-designed Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) – 30% Faster than A10
  • Apple-designed Image Signal Processor (ISP)
    • Faster low-tight autofocus
    • Improved pipel processor
    • Hardware multiband noise reduction
  • Apple-designed video encoder
  • Secure enclave
• Improved battery life – Two more hours.
• Wireless
  • LTE Advanced
  • BlueTooth 5.0
  • W1 for Air Pods, Beats X and Beats Studio 3 headphones
  • Wireless charging
  • New AirPower charging system coming soon

iPhone X Pricing and Availability

• 64GB – $999
• 256GB -$1,149

Preorder 10/27 Available 11/3

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