iPHONE 8

WHILE WE WAIT FOR ITS OFFICIAL REVEAL, HERE’S WHAT iOS 11 TELLS US ABOUT APPLE’S NEXT PHONE

SHARPER SCREEN With a change in design for an edge-to-edge screen, the iPhone 8 will likely have a new display size, with a new higher resolution. It’ll also likely switch things up to OLED (which will look better edge-to-edge) or get a ProMotion 120Hz screen like the iPad Pro – but probably not both, since it’s incredibly difficult. Only one product has ever featured a screen like that – PlayStation VR – and Sony said it was a huge technical challenge EDGE-TO-EDGE DISPLAY Everyone’s doing it, and you can expect Apple to get rid of the iPhone’s bezels too. This will be great with the new focus on AR apps (see below) – it’ll be like the phone’s invisible… ish CAMERA FOCUS iOS 11 uses a new image format (HEIF) for your photos that keeps file sizes smaller. Expect the iPhone 8 to have a new higher-megapixel sensor (probably 19MP), yet images to take up no extra room VIDEO STAR The iPhone 8 will take more vibrant 4K video, but also even more dramatic slo-mo video at 960FPS (up from 240FPS now). That’s a 32x slow-down, for seriously dramatic action shots GOES UP TO A11 Apple is going big on machine learning and AR/VR right now. Not only will the A11 be Apple’s fastest chip, it’ll also be designed with these in mind, including lots of graphics power and even better motion sensing