iPHONE X

Apple has uncovered and shown off the iPhone X, which joins the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus in Apple's all-new iPhone line-up. Here, we bring you everything you need to know about the iPhone X, including its release date, price, specs and features.

If you're wondering why this iPhone is called the X, let us explain. The iPhone X is actually said "iPhone ten" (with the X representing the Roman number for 10 in the same way that Mac OS Xused to). That's because 2017 is 10 years after the very first iPhone launched at Macworld Expo in2007. So this is a sort of special, full of celebration once-a-year iPhone.

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iPhone X Design: Glass on front and back – stainless steel frame, water-resistant IP67, no Home button

iPhone X Screen: 5.8-inch OLED edge-to-edge display, 2436 x 1125 pixel resolution (458ppi)

iPhone X Specs: Apple A11 Bionic 6-core SoC with Apple GPU, Face ID, Stereo speakers, Fast-charging, Wireless charging, iOS 11

iPhone X Camera: Dual 12-megapixel camera, f/1.8 and f/2.4 aperture, Dual Optical Image Stabilisation, Portrait Mode on front and rear camera

iPhone X Price: iPhone X UK Price £999 for 64GB, £1149 for 256GB. iPhone X US Price $999/64Gb and $1149/256GB

iPhone X Release Date: October 27 (pre-order), November 3 (release date)

With that out of the way let’s dig a little deeper and examine why the iPhone X could be the most exciting Apple phone ever made.

What makes the iPhone X stand so far apart from every other phone on Apple's list? There are half twelve headline features. A 5.8-inch almost edge-to-edge screen, OLED technology used for the first time, HDR compatibility, OIS on both rear lenses, facial recognition, and an eye-watering (British pounds)999 price tag. But it's another mistake (where something was left out), following the headphone jack going bye-bye last year, that will make the biggest difference to using the iPhone X. The Home button is no more.

The most famous feature of every iPhone since the first has disappeared, and don't expect to see it back in future iPhones. RIP little buddy. It's made way for that giant screen, and I think it's a loss that will take a lot longer for die-hard iPhone users to get used to than the missing 3.5mm jack.

Apple has revealed detail information on how the controversial facial recognition tool on the iPhone X works.

The feature is intended as a safe, secure way of quickly unlocking a phone without even touching it. But the way it works – creating an incredibly detailed map of your face, then storing that away – has the potential not only to be strange but outright dangerous.

Many of those objections were raised earlier this month, when Apple showed off the product. Though it took a range of steps to make clear that the phone would be safe from people using tricks like photos or masks, and the data it stores would be kept entirely private, questions have remained about whether the biometric scanning system can be trusted. But the feature is intended as a safe, secure way of quickly unlocking a phone.