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Full details except price have been leaked.. so much for good old fashioned Apple security and secrecy...
3 phones..
iPhone 8, 8+ and X.. so no 7S and 7S+..
The X will be the premium phone with the following new/extra features.
"True tone" screen.. basically the same overblown screen tech on the iPad Pro.
No physical home button and hence no fingerprint sensor.
New facial recognition system...some sort of 3D sensors that knows it is you that are using it and will unlock it automatically. Bet a picture of someone will be able to unlock it now.
Power button on the side will now trigger things like siri, Apple pay and an SOS mode. Great more things that can go wrong. 3D touch on a physical button.. baddddd idea.
The camera will get new "features" that no one will use... something called portrait lightning, whatever that is.
The traditional iPhone 8 and 8+ will remain the same.. with True Tone screen only. Fingerprint sensor remains.
The prices might be the following
8 = 649
8+ = 769
X = 999
However I could see a price raise on the 8 and 8+ to compensate for a lower price on the X. Oh and there will be massive shortages of the X, which wont ship before Christmas.. this is due to production problems. And of course the usual shortages of the normal phones because of Apple holding back stocks to create a fake shortage.
How can the new 8 be cheaper than the 7?