iPhone X: UK pre-orders, price, latest Apple news and features
Apple's new iPhone X, the company's most expensive phone to date, will be available for pre-orders on Friday a week ahead of the high-end phone's full release.
The iPhone X comes with an edge-to-edge OLED display, wireless charging and facial recognition security. It joins the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus in Apple's smartphone range.
Here is everything you need to know about Apple's new flagship product.
iPhone X price, release date and best deals
The iPhone X will be available for pre-order on Friday, October 27, with the new phone available on Apple's website and on a range of mobile network providers. The iPhone X will go on general sale on November 3.
The flagship phone won't come cheap. Apple will release two versions, a 64GB version, which will start at £999, and a more expensive 256GB version for £1,149 - ushering in the era of the £1,000 smartphone.
Where can I pre-order the iPhone X?
The iPhone X will be available on most of the major networks for pre-orders. The best iPhone X pre-order offer is on Sky Mobile, where you can find the iPhone X with just 500MB of data, but it will only cost you £42 per month (although you will need to be a Sky TV customer).
Vodafone are offering the best rate on the iPhone X of the major networks, at £62 per month with £200 upfront. With EE, you can get a massive 100GB of data on the iPhone X, although it will cost a whopping £82.99 per month. Most of the offers for the iPhone X only include the 64GB model, with more limited availability of the 256GB version.
The iPhone X is available to pre order from the following retailers:
iPhone X deals
What does the iPhone X look like?
The iPhone X has a 5.8-inch screen squeezed into a body smaller than the iPhone 8 Plus. Apple said it has been its goal to create "an iPhone that is all display".
Apple has dropped the iPhone's iconic home button, which has been present on every device since the first iPhone released in 2007. It has also removed the front-facing fingerprint scanner, which has been adopted by many other leading brands.
Instead, the iPhone X has a nearly bezel-free design with the screen covering almost the entire front of the phone. To make room for the front-facing selfie camera and facial recognition, the screen has a slight notch that indents at the top.
It has a dual-lens rear facing camera and will come in the colours silver and space grey.
No home button (or Touch ID)
More of a controversial than a best feature, Apple has dropped the home button, which has been present since the original iPhone and was used to control many aspects of the iPhone, including unlocking it with the embedded fingerprint scanner.
Instead, the iPhone X uses gesture controls to unlock. Several functions of the home button, such as activating Siri, will be relocated to the lock switch. Users can control the phone through swiping up from the bottom or just by tapping the screen.
Face ID
Apple's TrueDepth camera system lets users to unlock their phone by simply looking at it. Facial recognition technology replaces Touch ID as a way to identify users through an infrared camera.
Face ID will only unlock if a users eyes are open. Apple said there is a "one in a million" chance that someone else could unlock the iPhone using the technology. Face ID will also work with Apple Pay, and other apps that work with Touch ID.
There have been some worries about Face ID, both how effective it will be following an embarrassing on-stage demo and some questions about the security. Apple has moved to try and reassure some of these concerns, saying the main reason for Face ID failed as because the phone had been handled by multiple employees backstage.
Wireless charging
The iPhone X is the first iPhone to come with wireless charging, which is already available on the Apple Watch and rival Samsung Galaxy S8.
Apple will also release a wireless charging pad, called the AirPower, that will be able to charge multiple devices at once. It will be released next year
Edge-to-edge, super retina display
Apple's chief designer Sir Jony Ive long made it his goal to create an iPhone that looked like a single sheet of glass. The iPhone X has realised this design, with a 5.8-inch edge-to-edge display that covers the entire front of the phone, save for a tiny notch at the top.
It will have a 2438x1125 resolution display with 458 pixels per inch and an OLED display.
Augmented reality
The iPhone X has been used to showcase some of the augmented reality experiences that Apple debuted with its ARKit software, released at this year's WWDC. Augmented reality allows iPhone users to superimpose virtual images, games and videos onto real world objects and is a field where Apple has truly taken the initiative from rivals such as Google.
The X can also use 3D tracking capabilities from its selfie camera to impose masks using AR for apps such as Snapchat.
ARKit pic.twitter.com/jzCZBFC1ZN
— James Titcomb (@jamestitcomb) June 5, 2017
Animoji
Animoji are a new form of moving emoji that can be customised using facial recognition software. Users can scan their face and the animoji will match their expression in a short animation.
Animoji
The feature will only be available on the premium iPhone X, as it requires the 3D camera. Apple has created a limited selection of animoji from its hundreds of emoji, including the monkey, unicorn, robot, dog, pig, cat, dog and pile of poo.
Here's me animoji-ing pic.twitter.com/n8llZnrUPJ
— James Titcomb (@jamestitcomb) September 12, 2017
Processor and battery
Inside the iPhone X will be an A11 bionic chip, a more powerful chip than the one found on the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus. The iPhone X will also provide two more hours of battery life than the iPhone 7, according to Apple.
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Dual camera
The iPhone X will follow the iPhone 7 Plus and have a 12MP dual lens camera, but it will also be kitted out for augmented reality. The selfie camera will be 7MP and also be able to function for 3D tracking.
What about the iPhone 8?
Alongside the premium iPhone X, Apple also unveiled the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus. You can find all the details on the newly released iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus here.
