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Editors’ note (Sept. 12, 2018): The iPhone X reviewed here is no longer being sold by Apple, but the iPhone 8 is now available in its place at a reduced price of $599. See all of the new iPhones and new products that Apple just announced.
Update: Spring/summer 2018
The iPhone X was unveiled in September 2017 and released on November 3. And since then, it’s remained at the top of the smartphone hill. The Samsung Galaxy S9 Plus and the Huawei P20 Pro made some interesting advancements in photography, but nothing else has come close to matching the iPhone X’s revolutionary Face ID unlocking system. Instead, an increasingly large number of Android phones have taken to straight-up copying the Win iPhone 11 Pro: FREE iPhone 11 Pro Giveaway X’s distinctive notch — the thing that was arguably its most controversial and divisive design decision.
