Apple iPhone 8 event: Apple iPhone X, iPhone 8 / 8 Plus, Apple Watch Series 3 and Apple TV 4K announced

And that’s a wrap from the Apple iPhone event. 

Thanks for sticking around!

Tim Cook wrapping up the highlights of the day —

Apple Watch Series 3

Apple TV 4K

Apple iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus

Apple iPhone X!

Apple iPhone X starting at $999

Pre-order: October 27, Shipping: November 3

#TrueDepth camera system on the @Apple #iPhoneX unlocks the phone without a miss. #AppleEvent pic.twitter.com/NcBisBCLlu

— Tech2 (@tech2eets) September 12, 2017

AirPower will work with Qi Charging standard. To come out next year.

AirPower: Wireless Charging mat which will help charge the iPhone, the Watch and the AirPods earphones

#Siri on the @Apple #iPhoneX can now be triggered using a larger power button. #AppleEvent pic.twitter.com/wjOk445kfq

— Tech2 (@tech2eets) September 12, 2017

Apple iPhone X to have a selfie camera which will support Portrait mode as well. It also supports portrait lighting with the TrueDepth camera. 

Apple A11 Bionic chip powers the iPhone X.

Frederighi and Cook just demoed an interaction using just Animojis

Animojis in the Messages app automatically activate the TrueDepth camera, and it tracks your face to animate the emojis. 

The responsiveness of this feature is quite fast. This could be a fun aspect to try out with kids. 

You can also record the Animojis with your voice.

#TouchID gives way to a new 3D facial recognition technology called #FaceID on the @Apple #iPhoneX. #AppleEvent pic.twitter.com/Rb7JDpKmZT

— Tech2 (@tech2eets) September 12, 2017

Apple iPhone X cameras

Dual 12 MP cameras, larger and faster sensors, f/1.8 on wide and f/2.4 on telephoto lens. 

Dual OIS for the dual cameras

Quad LED two-tone flash

ARKit will enable face tracking. 

Snapchat being demoed with the TrueDepth camera which uses the 3D face mapping.

Frederighi demoing the major features of the iPhone X

Swipe up and stop to enter multi-tasking. Swipe along the bottom to go back to previous apps. Swipe from the top edge to the bottom will get you into Control centre

Hair Force One Craig Frederighi on stage to give a demo of the iPhone X

The brand new @Apple #iPhoneX comes in a unique design. #AppleEvent pic.twitter.com/KnmR6ndGYv

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Apple iPhone X 

Animoji – Animated Emojis to come with the iPhone X. Animojis track facial muscle movement. 

Apple Messages can be used to share Animojis

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“Face ID helps you set up your face using 3D mapping. Face ID learns who you are and adapts to you as your facial features change” says Schiller. 

“Face ID cannot be spoofed by photographs. Apple even tested the Face ID with facial masks,”

Face ID will also work with Apple Pay. Face ID will also work with third-party apps, which worked with Apple fingerprint sensor.

A11 Bionic will come with a Neural engine to process face recognition. 

The neural engine will have a dual core design, can perform 600bn operations per second

Appel iPhone X

Swipe up from the bottom to go to the Home Page from any app. 

Multi-tasking – swipe to the bottom, hold it for a while to get into multi-tasking mode

Press the side button to speak to Siri.

Apple iPhone X

Schiller discusses unlocking the phone. Facial recognition will be used to unlock the phone – Face ID.

Face ID uses TrueDepth camera system on the top of the iPhone X display. 

Comes with an IR camera, dot projector project 30,000 IR dots, IR dots create a mathematical model of your face.

The Anniversary Edition @Apple #iPhoneX is here! #AppleEvent pic.twitter.com/diJ0tPaXFR

— Tech2 (@tech2eets) September 12, 2017

Apple iPhone X

Super Retina Display supports HDR10 and Dolby Vision, 3D Touch support, True Tone display.

Raise to wake or tap on the screen to wake up. Home button will not be present on the iPhone X

#AppleTV4k launched at the @Apple #AppleSpecialEvent pic.twitter.com/dQOvRsSiPI

— Tech2 (@tech2eets) September 12, 2017

Apple iPhone X

Edge to edge display. Glass on both the front and back, using the same formula as iPhone 8. Stainless steel edges

Water and dust resistant.

Space gray and Silver. 

It comes with a Super Retina Display – 5.8-inches, 2436 x 1125 pixels resolution. 458ppi (highest pixel density on an iPhone). OLED panel

The iPhone X it is! and it looks similar to the renders we had seen all this while

“The future of the Smartphone” says Cook. 

“10 years later it is only fitting, that we are here in this place and this day to reveal a product that will set the path of technology for the next decade,” says Cook before the promotional teaser

Apple iPhone X

“Biggest leap forward since the original iPhone,” says Cook

Tim Cook is back on stage for ‘One More Thing’

Apple iPhone 8  starting from $699. iPhone 8 Plus to start from $799. Capacities: 64 GB and 256 GB

Pre-order from 15 September. Available from 22 September

LTE advanced supported, Airpods, Beats Studio 3 supported as well. 

Wireless Charging supported on the iPhone 8 / 8 Plus.

Schiller enlisting the various use cases for wireless charging.Wireless Charging will support Qi open wireless charging standards. 

Apple has partnered with hotels, car companies, smart home companies and more to support iPhone 8 / 8 Plus wireless charging

The @Apple #iPhone8 and #iPhone8Plus camera packs in a number of improvements on the video front as well. #AppleEvent pic.twitter.com/clHhSrzjkk

— Tech2 (@tech2eets) September 12, 2017

Entire levels of games can be rendered on screen using ARKit. AR allows you to use your position in the real world to play the game. Spatial audio will also be a feature built in with the Metal 2 game.

#Metal2 on the @Apple #iPhone8. To feature soon exclusively on #iOS11. #AppleEvent pic.twitter.com/GN2BsSmfne

— Tech2 (@tech2eets) September 12, 2017

New camera optics on the @Apple #iphone8 and #iphone8plus #AppleEvent pic.twitter.com/uV7Q8I81E5

— Tech2 (@tech2eets) September 12, 2017

Cameras are calibrated for AR. AR benefits with A11 Bionic chip. CPU handles world tracking, GPU handles graphics.

Directive Games, a startup from Shanghai, to demo Augmented Reality feature of Apple iPhone 8 cameras.

Apple has also designed the video encoder for video shooting. iPhone 8 divides each frame into individual tiles to get details on texture to optimise it. iPhone 8 and 8 Plus to support 4K 60fps, 1080p 240fps – double the frame rate of the previous iPhone. 

Augmented Reality will also be a feature on the iPhone 8 / 8 Plus

Portrait mode on the new @Apple #iPhone8 #iPhone8Plus camera. #AppleEvent pic.twitter.com/VT4ER5Zh4T

— Tech2 (@tech2eets) September 12, 2017

Dual cameras create a depth map, separate the subject and then changes the lighting on your face – as you are composing photos in the portait mode. New menu to select the lighting effect in the portrait mode. Photos app getting some makeover in the portrait department

The Apple iPhone 8 / 8 Plus photos being demoed and they look impressive, specially the low light samples and portrait mode photos.

Apple iPhone 8 Plus

12 MP dual cameras, f/1.8 for wide and f/2.8 for telephoto camera

Apple has also design the ISP on the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus. 

12MP camera, all new sensor, deeper pixels, supports OIS.

It's finally here! The #iPhone8 and the #iphone8plus pic.twitter.com/gQr17Kf0Bp

— Tech2 (@tech2eets) September 12, 2017

Apple iPhone 8 / 8 Plus to come with True tone technology, stereo speakers to come with deeper base than iPhone 7/7 Plus

Apple iPhone 8: 

Phil Schiller on stage to talk about iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus. 

Glass front and back. It comes in silver, space gray and a new gold finish. 

Made from aerospace grade alumium alloy. 7-laywer colour process. Apple claims it’s the most durable smartphone ever. 

Microscopically sealed for water and dust resistance. 

4.7-inch Retina display on iPhone 8 and 5.5-inch display on iPhone 8 Plus

Apple iPhone 8 / 8 Plus to house the Apple A11 Bionic chip. 

64-bit design, 4.3bn transistors. 

2 high performance cores, and 4 high efficiency cores.

All six cores can be used at once to improve performance in multi-threaded task

Apple iPhone 8 anonunced**!**

Huge iPhone news for today, teases Cook!

Apple TV 4K starts at $179 for 32 GB and 64GB for $199

Tim Cook is back on stage to talk about the iPhones. He is going through the history of the iPhone right from the first iPhone. Moving on to App Store and the new companies and industries it has spawned.

#AppleEvent Social gaming title #Sky launched on the #AppleTv4k pic.twitter.com/vvbgAaxhLs

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#AppleTV4k launched at the @Apple #AppleSpecialEvent pic.twitter.com/dQOvRsSiPI

— Tech2 (@tech2eets) September 12, 2017

Apple TV to bring about Social gaming. Sky, a new game being demoed on stage with two players on stage

Apple TV will also get Live Sports later this year. Users will get notifications the moment your favourite team plays. Live News will also be coming on Apple TV

. @Apple #Applewatch series 3 launched at #AppleEvent2017 pic.twitter.com/CC9ZS6VesK

— Tech2 (@tech2eets) September 12, 2017

Apple will work with Netflix and Amazon Prime Video to get all their 4K HDR titles on Apple TV

Apple TV 4K will come with a Apple A10X Fusion chip. The CPU performance is 2x the current Apple TV and graphics are 4x faster than current Apple TV. It runs latest tvOS. Apple has been working with big Hollywood Studios. 4K movies to be available at the same price as HD versions.

Apple TV time

Tim Cook going through the history of TV, saying that we are at the next inflection point of TV. Apple TV 4K announced

Eddie Cue on stage to talk about Apple TV 4K. 

While 4K is about the number of pixels, HDR is about the quality says Cue. Apple TV 4K supports HDR10, and Dolby Vision for high picture quality.

Tim Cook is back on stage, and teases the demo of the Apple Music support on the Apple Watch Series 3

Apple Watch Series 3 will be available from 22 September

Cellular, GPS, Swimproof, WatchOS 4, Bluetooth, LTE, Wi-Fi. 

Apple Watch Cellular at $399, Series 1 will start at $249

Apple Watch Series 3 to also come in a Ceramic gray colour

Apple Watch Series 3 to come in silver, space gray, gold alumium, Sports loop as well.

To enable LTE features on the Apple Watch Series 3, It comes with a dual core processor with 70pc bump in performance. Siri is quicker. Siri can talk back on the Apple Watch Series 3

W2 custom wireless chip being employed. It also comes with barometric sensor. Skiing and snowboarding apps will also get support.

The display itself is an antenna. 

It comes with an electronic SIM, which is a fraction of nano SIM. The size of the Series 3 watch is the same as the Series 2 Watch. 

Only difference is in the thickness of the rear crystal.

Apple Watch Series 3

Apple Watch series 3 announced with built-in LTE. The number is the same number as your iPhone. Third party apps like WeChat also work on Apple Watch Series 3. With Apple Music you can stream 40mn songs

Third thing focusses on heart rhythm. Apple Heart Study announced.

Apple Watch Series 3 announced

Apple Watch will notify if it notices an elevated heart rate and you don’t appear to be active.

Next generation of Apple Watch to be announced

Jeff Williams, Apple COO on stage announces watchOS 4.  

Completely redesigned Workout app, GymKit, new features for swimmers. The heart rate monitor is the most used heart rate monitor in the world.

More enhancements in the heart rate monitor: new measurements like resting heart rate, recovery rate 

Apple Watch updates

Cook says that Apple Watch has seen a 50 percent year on year growth in the last quarter, as compared to last year. “Today I am thrilled to tell you that the Apple Watch is now the No. 1 Watch in the world”, says Cook

Tim Cook facing the crowd at the Steve Jobs Theatre announcing the Apple Watch first.

Angela Ahrendts, Apple Retail giving an update about Apple stores across the world in New York, Paris. Chicago Michigan avenue to get a flagship Apple store. These updates are US specific. Apple retail employees number 65,000. India still awaits an Apple retail store. 

Today at Apple is aimed at creating a community around Apple, its products and the feature sets associated with products. Things such as Photography walks for instance would teach consumers around the photography benefits of Apple iPhones.

Teachers Tuesdays: Apple team will help developers stay up to date with the latest technologies

Sessions in all stores will be led by Apple Creative team with a ‘Creative Pro’ designation handling things

Apple Town Squares to be opened in cities across the world.

Apple CEO Tim Cook kicking off proceedings at the Steve Jobs Theatre.

Retail updates: Today At Apple will feature photography, music, gaming and app development.

Apple team will be moving to Apple Park later this year.

Visitors Centre will be open for the public later this year. It will have an AR centre as well as an Apple retail store.

Apple Park was converted from an asphalt majority area into a green space. It is expected to be seamless with nature, and the aim will be to use renewable energy. It is powered by 100 percent renewable energy says Cook. “World’s largest solar installation in Apple Park”

Jobs began to work on the Apple Park Campus over a decade ago. He wanted to make this place a hub for creators, designers to work on products to change the world. “Today and always, we honour him”, says Cook

Cook mentions Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. Apple is working with Hand in Hand and American Red Cross, to make contributions to help people affected by the hurricanes.

Cook reminiscing about the inspiration behind Apple’s philosophy. Dedicates the theatre to Jobs. “We do so to inspire the next generation of creators”, says Cook. “Steve was a genius”, says Cook.

The event begins with a snippet from Steve Jobs: “We need to remember who we are”

Apple CEO Tim Cook is on stage. “It’s only fitting that Steve should have opened this theatre”. Cook welcomes attendants in the Steve Jobs Theatre, Cupertino

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It's a big day at Apple! We are honored and thrilled to host our first keynote at the Steve Jobs Theater this morning. pic.twitter.com/gyiqPJB46y

— Tim Cook (@tim_cook) September 12, 2017

Analysts say that the Apple iPhone X should be raising the bar to compete with the premium Android flagship devices that are out there in the market. A key question for the tech giant is whether it can wow the world the way it did with the first iPhone a decade ago.

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The new iPhone will undoubtedly be the main focus of the event. However, Apple is expected to launch the Apple TV 4K at the event as well. Here’s what we know about it.

The venue this year — the Steve Jobs Theatre will host an event for the first time, giving viewers a glimpse of the iconic venue named after Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.

The Apple iPhone event will happen at 10:30 pm IST, live from the Steve Jobs Theatre, Cupertino, US.