iPhone 8 Specifications and Price

Apple, know for its popular iPhone series has recently come up with its brand new smartphone iPhone 8 in September, which was announced on their Keynote event. But, this time it was a quite different kind of launch, as this time, they had skipped a series. Which means, it was going to be iPhone 7S launch, but Apple named and finally launched it as iPhone 8 and its cost in USD is $699 (in United States). iPhone 8 has some new innovations and features in it, Let us take a look into Apple iPhone 8 specifications

Display: When it comes to the Display part, below are the detailed specs:

  • 4.7 inches screen size
  • Panel: LED-back-lit IPS LCD
  • Ion-strengthened glass with oleophobic coated protection
  • Resolution: 750 x 1334, 326 ppi pixel density
  • 16.7 Million colors
  • Contrast Ratio is 1395:1
  • Additional features: 3D Touch, True Tone Color Technology, HDR10 and Dolby vision.

The newest innovation here is the true tone color support and its concept was taken from the iPad. The main feature in this support is that, It automatically adjusts the color according to the ambient. So that, you get neutral color display all the time.

Camera: Let’s have a look at its camera specs.

Back Camera:

  • 12 Mega Pixels Camera
  • Aperture: f/1.8, 28mm
  • Phase detection autofocus and OIS technology
  • Quad LED Dual Tone Flash
  • Records 4K video up to 60fps and 1080p up to 240fps

Front Camera:

  • 7 Mega Pixels Face-Time Camera
  • Aperture: f2.2
  • Records Video 1080p up to 30fps and 720p up to 240 fps
  • Face detection, HDR, Panorama

GPU and CPU in iPhone 8: It has the same CPU as in iPhone X which is the fastest Processor of the smartphone market. It has about 25% faster speed than the A10X Fusion CPU in the iPad.

With the brand new iOS 11 update, It brings a lot of new features like – redesigned control center, 3D emojis with Facebook and other apps that use face tracking to render accurate expressions.

  • A11 Bionic processor with 6 Core (4x Mistral+2x Monsoon)
  • GPU unit: Apple Tri-Core GPU
  • 64 or 256GB Storage, non-expandable
  • Memory (RAM) 2GB DDR4
  • iOS 11 operating system
  • iMessage, MMS, email and push email for messaging
  • Safari (HTML5) Web Browser
  • Others: Apple Pay, iCloud Service, Weather App, document Editor, audio/video player.

Connectivity: Apart from the 3.5mm headphone jack, apple has a loaded device in terms of connectivity. However you can but a lightning to 3.5mm converter from them and use existing headphones following the 3.5mm format.

  • Network Support: 4G LTE, 3G (HSPA) and 2G (GSM)
  • Wi-Fi: 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, MiMO
  • Bluetooth ver. 5.0 with A2DP and LE
  • USB: Apple proprietary reversible lightning connector

Battery: The Battery power is less than that of iPhone 7 which had 1910 mAh of Power.

  • Lithium ION (Li-ION) Battery
  • 1821mAh (6.96 W) Power
  • Quick Charge support
  • Endurance: 66 Hours

So, to sum up, If you are looking to buy iPhone 8 then you must first think a bit. As if you are already using iPhone 6s or later, you won’t get too much regarding new features since iOS 11 started to roll out from iPhone 5s.