With the September 12 Apple event set for Tuesday, here's a brief, quick-look chart covering the notable anticipated (per reports) specs of the so-called iPhone 8 -- which reportedly will be called the "iPhone X."
Major specifications, price breakdown (forecast): note on smaller mobile screens use finger to scroll left, right if width of chart goes off screen.
| iPhone 8 / iPhone X (1) | |
| Display | OLED edge-to-edge |
| Design | 5.8-inch, glass body, stainless steel edges; size close to 4.7-inch iPhone 7 |
| Other (design/features) | Top of display has notch for front camera, earpiece and sensors (2); notch area has split status bar, 'ears' are animated (3); draggable software bar at bottom (4); no hard home button |
| Camera (rear) | Vertical dual-lens with 'smart camera.' Augmented reality capabilities; 4K video recording at 60 fps. (5) |
| Camera (front) | 3D sensing (6) |
| Charging | wireless (inductive) charging |
| ID | Face ID to unlock, replaces touch ID; will be used for Apple Pay with secondary biometric. |
| Processor | A11 (possibly six-core) (7) |
| Colors | OLED iPhone models white, black, and gold casings with front black-coating glass |
| Availability | Limited (8) |
| Price | $1,000 -- and up |
(1) Rumors now claim the branding is "iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus" for the more conventional LCD iPhones and" iPhone X" for the OLED iPhone.
(2) KGI's Ming-Chi Kuo via 9to5Mac. The iPhone 8’s notch includes: "a structured light transmitter, structured light receiver, proximity sensor, ambient light sensor, front camera...the two new sensors to the iPhone 8 are the structured light transmitters and receiver."
(3) 9to5Mac and Guilherme Rambo. May also have tap-to-wake like Windows phones.
(4) MacRumors.
(5) Rear camera may be able to detect different types of scenes and subjects such as fireworks, foliage, sky, snow, bright scenes.
(6) Reports.
(7) "Two cores for intensive processing needs, and four high-efficiency cores."
(8) Possibly constrained until early 2018.
Originally published on Sep 10, 2017 @ 14:00
