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Apple's iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus get wireless charging (CNET News)

2017-09-12
he's so excited to tell you all about the new iPhone 8 and the new iPhone 8 plus these are a new generation of iPhone it comes in silver Space Gray and a beautiful new gold finish iPhone 8 an A+ is also microscopically sealed for water and dust resistance and they have a new retina HD display in each model there's a 4.7 inch Retina display in iPhone 8 and a 5.5 inch an iPhone 8 plus along with the displays iPhone 8 and 8 plus have new stereo speakers as well they're 25% louder than the speakers in iphone 7 and they have a deeper bass inside iPhone 8 mate plus is a brand new chip and this is a breakthrough performance in a mobile device we call it a 11 Bionic 64 bit design 4.3 billion transistors six core we're going to geek out here for a bit because it is so awesome it has two high-performance course they're 25% faster than the high performance course and the previous industry-leading 810 chip is for high efficiency course through up to 70% faster than the ones in the a-10 chip and the GPU is designed to accelerate 3d apps and games especially those that use our new metal 2 framework all this helps to improve performance and helps us take better pictures there's an all-new 12 megapixel sensor it's larger and faster iPhone 8 plus has two new sensors in its dual camera the wide-angle camera has an F 1.8 aperture and optical image stabilization the telephoto camera has F 2.8 aperture so as always we want to show you the kind of photos you can take last year we introduced portrait mode iPhone 8 takes fantastic portrait modes and people flip over taking these photos and now with the iPhone 8 plus you're gonna get sharper details more uses in low-light and even a more natural bokeh in the background of the photos using the new dual cameras and a 11 Bionic chip and the iPhone 8 plus the team has come up with a new feature called portrait lighting and then you see machine learning it creates facial landmarks and actually changes the lighting of the contours over your face now these aren't filters this is real-time analysis of the light on your subjects face in fact you can go in later after shot a portrait mode photo into the Photos app and change the lighting effect to select which one you want to use on your photograph iPhone 8 has the highest quality video capture ever in a smartphone so let's say you're shooting 4k 64 video you can look like this it's beautifully optimized for quality and for compression level and this video was shot on an iPhone in 4k it's amazing we custom tune each iPhone for augmented reality the cameras are actually individually calibrated in the factory and that makes a huge difference in the performance for AR there are new gyroscopes new accelerometers and here's sky guide from v star labs you can use AR kit with this app to actually superimpose the map on top of the sky as you're looking at it around you what's really cool is with AR kit the metal to on the new iPhone we are able to experience games in an entirely new way these players are able to view the game from any angle our content has to be incredibly detailed with the power of the new iPhone an unreal support for metal - we are able to render the entire level on screen and amazing 1.2 million polygons while also allowing you to move in close to really appreciate the high visual fidelity and now with iPhone 8 with its glass back we're enabling the freedom of wireless charging what makes this possible is we're building into iPhone 8 and 8 plus wireless charging with Qi that she is the leading openness wireless charging standard and we hope to help Qi by increasing adoption of it in creating new use cases for it many restaurants shops airports cars have started to build in support for Qi wireless charging and they'll work with iPhone a many companies are offering cheap chargers and those that are chief certified should all work with iPhone a
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