Apple iPhone X
The iPhone X has another first — it is the costliest iPhone ever.
The year 2017 has witnessed the launch of several handsets that truly have the potential to be game changing. Yet, not many have been revolutionary.
One of the few devices that do come to the mind when talking of ground breaking technology is the iPhone X (spoken of as the “iPhone Ten”).
It’s got the world talking, for all the right reasons.
Revealed to the world as the tenth anniversary edition, the iPhone X is an elegant, no, gorgeous amalgam of technology and material. Sporting an all-glass body held together by stainless steel, the iPhone X harks back to when Apple wasn’t thinking only in terms of “functional beauty”.
Though this device is slightly heavier than its predecessor, it is nonetheless, a joy to hold; and enough new technology shoehorned into it, to make a wonder to behold. There are various departments in which the iPhone X has impressed and surprised the world.
The iPhone X carries Apple’s largest ever screen on a smartphone — a 5.8 inch curved, edge to edge OLED glass display with “True Tone” technology.
The brains of the outfit is an amalgam of an uprated OS — the iOS 11 (which harnesses the iPhone X’s hardware and screen beautifully), a new chip, the A11 Bionic Chip and a Neural Engine, which is an AI accelerator built specifically to enable the iPhone X’s augmented reality overlay.
The chip’s mind bending potential can be understood from the fact that it can perform as many as 600 billion operations in a second!
The iPhone X also increased the minimum storage on iPhones as the X starts with 64 GB of onboard storage and 3 GB of RAM. The iPhone X pleasantly surprises its users through the first-time integration of wireless- and fast charging support. While it’s way overdue (considering the rest of the industry enabled these may years ago), but it’s nonetheless good to see Apple open it’s platform to existing third-party technologies — the iPhone X supports the QI charging platform, so one can charge the phone using existing wireless charging pads at hotels, airports and other such places of public-enablement.
There’s another first in the iPhone X — Face ID. Apple’s substituting their Touch ID with a proprietary (and may we say, completely revolutionary) facial recognition system that’s capable of unlocking the device at a glance — even in the dark. In order to do so it records the geometry of the face, collecting more than 30,000 data points using Apple’s True Depth front-facing camera setup. More on that in our detailed review.
On the photography front, the iPhone X features a dual camera system similar to the one found on the iPhone 7 Plus and the iPhone 8 Plus — but with a twist. The vertically oriented dual cameras are a duo of 12 megapixel cameras, which enable Optical and Digital Zoom.
There are many features like Portrait mode, simultaneous 4K video and 8 megapixel image recording, touch focus, face/smile detection, HDR (photo/panorama). Simply put, the rear cameras are capable of clicking studio-quality pictures even in low light.
The cameras at the front count for 7 megapixel clickers, with a f/2.2 aperture. They leverage the True Depth technology to enable face detection, Portrait mode, Animoji, HDR and Panorama — that too with a selfie flash for clearer pictures at night. Clearly the photo enthusiast will revel with the iPhone X.
Closing the set, the iPhone X is dust- and splash-resistant. It offers water resistance up to 30 minutes in 5 feet of water. So the accidental spills ‘coz of your inner klutz should no longer have you collapsing with a coronary.
With more pros than cons, this is a “dream device”, but before you run off card in hand, bear notice to the fact that the iPhone X has another first — it is the costliest iPhone ever. The price ranges from INR 89,000 to INR 1,02,000, depending on the memory storage.
The iPhone X will be available for pre-order on October 27.
Originally published at chip-monks.com.
