Apple unveils its vision for the smartphone future with iPhone X

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Apple's big reveal at its September event today was the iPhone X the company's vision for the future of smarthones. Featuring a new edge-to-edge 5.8-inch display, an new Face ID facial recognition technology that uses face tracking and camera technology to authenticate access and mobile payments.

Using a new OLED display with an edge-to-edge display, iPhone X is the culmination of 10 years of Apple innovation in the segment it defined. iPhone X meets competitors like the LG G6, Samsung Galaxy Note8, and S8 as well as the Essential Phone by offering a similar edge-to-edge display and an all new OLED panel. Because of this new display, Touch ID and the Home button are no longer available.

Apple has solved this by enabling multi-touch gestures to replace the Home Button and also introducing Face ID, which uses facial recognition via new cameras and a neural engine, to accurately read a person's face, even in low light conditions.The new super Retina HD display is the first OLED display on an iPhone, it has a 2436-by-1125-pixel resolution and an outstanding 458 pixels per inch density.

"For more than a decade, our intention has been to create an iPhone that is all display. The iPhone X is the realization of that vision,” said Jony Ive, Apple’s chief design officer. “With the introduction of iPhone ten years ago, we revolutionized the mobile phone with Multi-Touch. iPhone X marks a new era for iPhone — one in which the device disappears into the experience.”

iPhone X (iPhone Ten) also features Animoji, Animated Emoji based of facial recognition which uses your facial expressions overlayed on emoji characters.

iPhone X comes in silver and space grey colours with 64GB and 256GB variants starting at $1319,00 CAD. Preorders start on Friday October 27 for a November 3 launch.