Tim Cook: $999 is “value price” for iPhone X because of EIPs and “discounts”

Whatever the case may be for Apple's $999 price tag, it does come with a few strings attached from carriers to Face ID. Cook eases it all off with an interview.

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Fresh batch of iPhone 8 revelations includes resizable home button, Pearl ID features and more

A bunch of new info on the upcoming iPhone 8 has been discovered by taking an even closer look at HomePod firmware, including more Pearl ID details.

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iPhone 8 schematics leaked out of Foxconn, wiped from Weibo

It's not exactly a blueprint. In fact, it's right up sketchy. But the word is that it comes out of Foxconn and it's our first idea of what's up with the 8.

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In-depth: further details about KGI’s iPhone 8 trio include dual-OIS cameras for Plus

There is a loose coalescence of intel regarding what molds the iPhone 8 will take shape in come next year. More analysts and sources are pointing to two phones with larger screens but roughly in the same dimensions as the past three iterations of iPhone. But a third size, with screen size said to be between the existing 4.7-inch and 5.5-inch form factors, has been popping up in research notes recently, including one from yesterday written by KGI Securities analyst Ming-chi Kuo.

Further details from a KGI report today make expectations for Apple to make this the sole model to feature a wraparound OLED screen. The screen, provided exclusively by Samsung, will have a hypotenuse of 5.8 inches while its capacitive touch sensor will only span 5.2 inches. Bezels will be minimized to near zero while the Home Button will be integrated into the display.

KGI belives this special model will act as a technological showboat for Apple while the company continues to maintain the “bread-and-butter” models. The Plus is supposed to get optical image stabilization support for both of its wide angle and telephoto lenses. Both conventional iPhones will still feature LCD screens and an iterative design derived from the iPhone 7 series, but with glass as the main industrial material.

It was not likely from the outset that Apple would be able to obtain enough OLED panels from Samsung for full-slate iPhone production. The third iPhone 8 could enable Apple to offer it at an elevated price and/or depress its other models’ costs — however it wants to drive iPhone sales.

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Got an iPhone 7 with a broken Home Button? Apple relents with instant virtual one

Got an iPhone? Got a broken home button? Yeah, we figured that would pop up as an issue at some point. And it’s one annoying issue that also plagues the iPhone 7’s Home Button. Yes, even with that little capcitive, Taptic pad we pass as a button.Luckily for us, though, Apple has gotten ahead of the issue by implementing fault detection for the button and the ...

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