Submitted By Asha Manoj on 5 March 2018
iPhone X is a smartphone designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. It was announced on September 12, 2017, at the Steve Jobs Theater in the Apple Park campus. The phone was released on November 3, 2017. This device marks the iPhone series' tenth anniversary, with "X" being the symbol for "ten" in Roman numerals. The phone specifically adopting OLED screen technology for the first time in iPhone history, as well as using a glass and stainless-steel form factor, offering wireless charging, and removing the home button in favor of introducing Face ID, a new authentication method using advanced technologies to scan the user's face to unlock the device, as well as for the use of animated emojis called Animoji. It has a 5.8-inch diagonal OLED color-accurate screen that supports DCI-P3 wide color gamut, sRGB, and high dynamic range, and has a contrast ratio of 1,000,000:1. The Super Retina display has the True Tone technology, which uses ambient light sensors to adapt the display's white balance to the surrounding ambient light. The iPhone X contains Apple's A11 Bionic system-on-chip, which is a six-core processor with two cores optimized for performance, along with four cores optimized for efficiency. It also features the first Apple-designed graphics processing unit and a Neural Engine, which powers an artificial intelligence accelerator. The iPhone X has two cameras on the rear. One is a 12-megapixel wide-angle camera with f/1.8 aperture, with support for face detection, high dynamic range and optical image stabilization. It is capable of capturing 4K video at 24, 30 or 60 frames per second, or 1080p video at 30, 60, 120 or 240 frames per second. A secondary, telephoto lens features 2x optical zoom and 10x digital zoom with an aperture of f/2.4 and optical image stabilization. On the front of the phone, a 7-megapixel TrueDepth camera has an f/2.2 aperture, and features face detection and HDR.