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.
Other streaming providers like Netflix and Amazon will be bringing their 4K HDR stuff to Apple TV as well.
The Apple TV app, which brings together all your films and TV shows, will be coming out in seven different other countries, too. (That includes the UK.)
We're hearing from "That Game Company", who will talk about what the new Apple TV can do.
The 4K TV does look really nice. But this is a little like watching someone else play a video game, and it's not especially exciting.
Order on 15 September, and get your Apple TV a week later. That, coincidentally, is almost certain to be the iPhone release date too.
"Nothing else has become so essential or put so much power into people's hands than iPhone. It's truly amazing how much iPhone impacts the world each and every day. Our intention with iPhone has always been to create something so powerful – so immersive and so magical – that the hardware virtually disappears. Over the years we've invented new technologies to create just that experience. The first iPhone changed how we interact with technology by introducing multi-touch. For the first time you're touching software, rather than buttons. The App Store changed the way we learn, communicate.
"We took the viewing experience to places never seen before with technologies like the retina display. We changed how we communicate with technologies like FaceTime, that allowed us to connect in new ways. iPhone even revolutionised security and privacy with TouchID, and our wallets with Apple Pay."
This, again, is a real retrospective. Which is very strange for Apple.
"We have huge iPhone news for you today, and it gets started right now."
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