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
- Photos
- 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
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.
- TrueDepth camera system
- 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
- Photos
- 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