Friday, August 4, 2017

8 things we just learned about the iPhone 8


For its 10-year anniversary, Apple is widely expected to redesign the iPhone yet again -- and another leak may have just spoiled some of the phone's new features.

Last week, the company seems to have mistakenly pushed out a firmware update for the new HomePod smart speaker, a device that won't even be available until December. And when iOS developers Steve Troughton-Smith and Guilherme Rambo dug through that code, they found buried treasure.

That said, it appears that we know a lot more about the next iPhone now than we did just a week ago. Here are our eight big takeaways.

1. The bezels appear to be going away.
2. It seems to have facial recognition, aka 'Pearl ID'.
3. There's apparently no home button...
4. The fate of the Touch ID fingerprint sensor is unclear, too
5. Your status bar may never be the same
6. Apple's augmented reality seems to get a boost
7. There's a tiny shred of evidence for wireless charging
8. The new iPhone probably won't be alone

Extracted from: https://www.cnet.com/news/iphone-8-rumors-leaks-8-things/

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