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iPhone X

44 articles – stable

Launched in 2017 as Apple’s home-button-free flagship, iPhone X coverage shifted from design and early defects to its influence on successors, rivals and Face ID use.

Who they are

iPhone X was Apple’s 2017 flagship iPhone, defined in launch coverage by its 5.8-inch edge-to-edge OLED display, removal of the home button, Face ID, dual rear cameras and wireless charging. In the stories collected here, it serves both as a product in its own right and as the design and technology baseline against which Apple’s later iPhones, Android rivals and app features are judged.

The recent arc

Coverage peaked at launch in 2017Q4, when reviews assessed the all-screen interface and Face ID alongside reports of cold-weather touch-screen failures and Foxconn labor concerns. Early 2018 then focused on operational and product problems, including Apple investigating delayed incoming-call displays and acknowledging intermittent touch responsiveness, while Apple said it was working on a software fix for cold-related issues.

Later stories recast the device as a reference point rather than Apple’s newest handset. The iPhone XS and XS Max reviews, iFixit’s iPhone XR teardown, and reports that Apple resumed iPhone X production amid reduced XS and XS Max orders all positioned it within Apple’s changing lineup. The most recent item, Snap’s 2019 3D camera mode for iPhone X and newer devices, shows its TrueDepth-era hardware becoming a compatibility threshold for new software features.

The tension

The central tension is between iPhone X as Apple’s costly design break and the practical limits exposed by defects, successor demand and competitive imitation. Asus explicitly adopted an iPhone X-like notch for the Zenfone 5, while Samsung’s Galaxy Fold coverage recalled Samsung’s earlier mocking of the iPhone X notch; within Apple’s range, the iPhone XS, XS Max and XR repeatedly invited comparisons over whether the newer models justified replacing the X. Face ID also introduced a separate privacy and legal tension when the FBI compelled a suspect to unlock an iPhone X.

Why it matters

The coverage suggests iPhone X helped establish an Apple hardware template whose effects outlasted the model: gesture-first, notch-era iPhone design, Face ID-based capabilities and an increasingly differentiated premium lineup. If that trajectory holds, its importance will rest less on unit-level product news than on whether successors and software partners continue to treat its sensor and display architecture as the baseline, while Apple must manage the pricing, reliability and privacy trade-offs that surfaced in this cycle.

iPhone X has appeared in 44 articles since 2017-09. Coverage peaked in 2017Q4 with 13 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Apple, iPhone, iPhone XS, iPhones.

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Coverage Timeline

2019-09-17
TechCrunch 6 related

Snapchat adds a 3D camera mode with 3D effects, lenses, and filters, which can be used by those with iPhone X and above, and viewed by users with other phones

The newest version of Snap's Spectacles already has a 3D feature that lets you see the world with immersive filter effects …

2019-04-16
The Verge 26 related

Samsung Galaxy Fold hands-on: feels much more stable and polished than expected and while you can see and feel the crease, it's perhaps worth the trade-off

and that it would be hard to even hazard a guess until the company sees how real people use the device."lol this is what we in marketing call A Lie http://www.fastcompany.com/... Geoffrey A. Fowler / ...

2019-01-04
Apple 75 related

Apple revises guidance for its fiscal 2019 Q1 downwards due to weakness in some markets, particularly China

and today. But look how many tech people think PCs are essential and interesting. Steven Sinofsky / @stevesi : 5/ There are many examples of mature product lines with significant growth selling into a...

2018-11-23
2018-11-01
9to5Mac 7 related

Apple's newly unveiled products start at higher price points, with the 2018 Macbook Air 128GB model starting 20% higher, continuing Apple's push into higher ASP

but it only costs $800 Aaron Lee / DigiTimes : Supply chain not upbeat about order prospects for new MacBook Air Christopher Baugh / iPhone in Canada Blog : iPad Pro's Geekbench Scores Show A12X Bioni...

2018-10-04
Wall Street Journal 27 related

Sources: Nintendo plans to release a new version of Switch in the latter half of 2019, perhaps as soon as summer

Updated console isn't expected to adopt the OLED panels used in Apple's iPhone X series  —  TOKYO— Nintendo Co. NTDOY -1.78% plans to release a new version …

2018-10-01
Forbes 22 related

FBI compelled a suspect to use Face ID to unlock his iPhone X, following other cases where police with warrants unlocked iPhones via Touch ID

Privacy concerns around iPhone X facial recognition  —  It finally happened.  The feds forced an Apple iPhone X owner to unlock their device with their face.

2018-09-22
iFixit 15 related

Teardown reveals iPhone XS has a notched L-shaped battery, iPhone XS Max has an extended logic board with an Apple-designed power management chip

Tools Featured in this Teardown … Introduction  —  Last year's iPhone X had a weird name and the most advanced internals we'd ever seen in a teardown.

2018-09-21
iFixit 8 related

Teardown reveals iPhone XS has a notched L-shaped battery, iPhone XS Max has an extended logic board with an Apple-designed power management chip

Tools Featured in this Teardown … Introduction  —  Last year's iPhone X had a weird name and the most advanced internals we'd ever seen in a teardown.

2018-09-19
The Verge 42 related

iPhone XS and XS Max review: terrific display, great speakers, and long battery life, but expensive, very good camera but not great, portrait mode a hit or miss

Three years ago, Phil Schiller was my guest … Rene Ritchie / iMore : iPhone XS + Max Review: The best damn product Apple's ever made, take 2 Joe Rossignol / MacRumors : iPhone X Cases May Have Slightl...

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TEXXR tracks 84 tech news articles mentioning iPhone X, dating back to September 2017. The biggest stories include iPhone X review after 24 hours: gorgeous design and display, notch is ugly but tends to... and iOS 16 beta 5 adds an option to show the battery percentage in the status bar on some.... Frequently covered alongside Apple, iPhone, iPhone 8 Plus, KGI, and Galaxy S9.

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