iPhone X live updates: Apple reveals its most ambitious device ever – latest
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Apple just held its biggest event of the year. And it launched its biggest product of the year, the iPhone 8 – before going ahead and announcing an even bigger one, the iPhone X.
There was actually three phones: the cheaper iPhone 8, and the premium and more expensive X.
And that wasn't all – there was also an updated Apple Watch, an even better looking Apple TV, and software updates for most of Apple's products.
Follow along here for all the latest updates from Apple's big event, as well as before and after.
Please allow a moment for the liveblog to appear.
It'll come in two colours: black and white, essentially. (there's supposed to be another colour, but it's presumably not ready yet.)
Phil Schiller is explaining how you use the phone without the home button. You can use Siri by talking or pressing the side of the screen, for instance.
"With iPhone 10, your iPhone is locked until you look at it, and it recognises you. Nothing has ever been more simple, natural and effortless. We call this Face ID. Face ID is the future of how we unlock our smartphones and protect our sensitive information."
Even if you change your hair, wear a hat, put on a scarf, the Face ID will still work.
And you won't be able to trick it by wearing a mask, Mr Schiller makes clear.
TouchID is 1 in 50,000. FaceID is 1 in 1,000,000.
(That is, the chance that a random person could unlock it.)
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