IT’S OFFICIAL: This is the iPhone X, Apple’s fancy new phone

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Apple announced the newest iPhone, the iPhone X, on Tuesday at its press event in Cupertino, California.

It’s pronounced «iPhone ten.»

You can preorder it on October 27. It ships on November 3rd and it will retail for $999.

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Here’s what you can expect from Apple’s new phone:

  • It features a strikingly different design from its predecessors, like the iPhone 7.
  • The screen uses a new kind of technology called OLED.
  • Apple calls its the new display «super-retina.» Its’ 5.8-inches large.
  • It’s a 2436 x 1125 pixel screen.
  • The battery also lasts 2 hours longer than the iPhone 7, according to Apple.
  • Its chip is called A11 Bionic. It’s a six-core SoC chip with 2 high-performance cores, four high-efficiency cores, and an custom Apple GPU.
  • It will come in two colors for now: Space Grey and Silver.
  • The iPhone X has a improved rear camera. It’s got two 12-megapixel sensors, and an improved flash, too. Here are Apple’s specs:

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For most people, the biggest change on the iPhone X is that the home button is gone.

  • To wake up the phone, you simply tap on the screen.
  • There’s no more home button. «It’s a big step forward in the iPhone user experience,» Apple SVP Phil Schiller said.
  • The iPhone will be locked until you look at it, which replaces the fingerprint sensor. Apple calls it FaceID.

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The front-facing camera has been updated with a ton of new technology to enable FaceID. Apple calls it TrueDepth.
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More TrueDepth camera details from Apple:

  • The iPhone X is equipped with an A11 chip with a special part of it called «neural engine» to run machine learning and AI software.
  • FaceID works with hats, glasses, and makeup.
  • Apple says that there’s only a 1 in 1 million chance that FaceID can be defeated by a random person.
  • The iPhone X also has emojis you control with your face and the iPhone X front-facing camera. Apple calls them «animojis.»
  • The 3D camera will also supercharge apps like Snapchat.

The iPhone X has wireless charging, but Apple’s charger won’t ship until next year. Until then, you can use compatible third-party chargers.

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«No other device in our lifetimes has had the impact on the world that the iPhone has,» Apple CEO Tim Cook said. «Our intention with iPhone has always been to create something so powerful and so immersive that the hardware virtually disappears.»

Apple also launched two other iPhones on Tuesday: the iPhone 8 and the iPhone 8 Plus.

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Here’s what Apple’s iPhone lineup looks like now:

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