Apple Live Event and the future of the smartphone

The Apple Event was held today September 12th, 2017. Here are some skimmable highlights. | Twitter #AppleEvent

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Face ID

• The iPhone X, your iPhone is locked until you look at it, and it recognizes you.
• "Face ID" is facial recognition
• Face ID is the future of how we unlock our phones (faster, more secure, more accurate)

• It illuminates your face with an infrared camera
• They took over a billion images to develop neural networks, which they used to create Face ID
• The A11 Bionic has a built-in neural engine, to process Face ID on your phone

• Machine learning powers FaceID
• They worked hard to make sure it won’t work on fake faces
• Face ID is way more secure than Touch ID

#FaceRecognitionTech

iPhone X

• "Set the path for the next decade"

• band is made from surgical grade steel
• “The first OLED display great enough to be in an iPhone.”
• 5.8-inch display, the most pixel-dense iPhone ever.
• It’s water and dust resistant, comes in space gray and silver

• HDR display, Dolby Vision and HDR10, million-to-one contrast ratio, color accuracy, 3D Touch, True Tone display
• No more home button. Instead there’s a bar at the bottom. (swipe up from the bottom instead)

Wireless Charging

• It’s Qi wireless charging, a standard a lot of people are adopting.

Augmented Reality

#AppleAR

• The Phones are designed especially to run AR in various settings.
• Some really great looking AR demos here, projecting games on parking lots and star maps on the sky.

iPhone Main Event

• Glass on front and back
• Aerospace-grade aluminum, 7-layer coloring process, a deeper stengthening layer
• All runs on a new chip, the A11 Bionic
• 25 percent faster than A10, high-efficiency cores are 70 percent faster
• Processing is needed for the future to power high-quality AR experiences

• Highest-quality video capture ever in a smartphone
• You can shoot 1080p at 240 frames per second slow-mo (double the frame rate of before!)

Apple Watch Gets Medical

Apple is adding a feature so that Watch will notify you of an elevated heart rate when you don't appear to be active. It's becoming a health-tech device.

• WeChat will be supported on Apple Watch
• New Apple Watch Series 3 will also allow you to stream Apple Music on the watch

• New upgraded processor. 70% boost. dual-core
• It's now water-proof
• $329 without cellular, $399 with.

#AppleWatch

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