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On paper, they blow away the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 chip that's in most competing top-end phones, including those from Samsung, LG and OnePlus.īut, again, those gains are only as good as the software that pushes it. Multitasking scores double last year's iPhone 7 tests, and it's a step up over even the last iPad Pros from the spring: Geekbench 4 results thus far are 4,188 single-core and 10,213 multicore. It's a seriously fast set of chips based on benchmarks so far: In fact, the Geekbench 4 numbers we're getting come close to what MacBooks with Core i5 processors can achieve.

New sensors and processors help photo and video quality, too. It's ready to keep up with the next-wave apps that will come. Apple's upgraded the rest of the chips, too, including the Apple-made GPU, a W2 wireless chip that's meant to be more Wi-Fi efficient, a motion-tracking chips, a modem chip designed for LTE-Advanced wireless networks and the camera sensors. Sarah Tew/CNET New processors make the iPhone 8 a speed demonĪpple calls its new iPhone chips 'A11 Bionic.' It's a six-core processor, versus the four-core last year. It's still annoying.Ĩ and 8 Plus: Nearly equally fast. Go wireless, or use the Lightning-to-3.5mm dongle or Lightning earbud headphones (both included). Which reminds me: Like the 2016 models, none of the new iPhones have a standard headphone jack. It's nice when you're sharing TV, movies or YouTube videos with friends, or even just using the iPhone for music at home. Meanwhile, the speakers, which were louder with the 7, now get beefier with some bass. It makes the display seem less harsh in everyday reading, a bit like a more advanced all-day Night Shift.

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It does get True Tone, however, a color warmth-adjusting ambient effect that the iPad Pro added last year. In fact, the iPhone 8's LCD screen is the same size and resolution as the 6, 6S and 7: 4.7-inch diagonal, with 1,334x750 pixels. The iPhone 8 screen isn't OLED, the display technology used on the iPhone X and Samsung Galaxy phones, which is more energy efficient and offers far better contrast and black levels. Sarah Tew/CNET True Tone and better speakers are tiny AV improvements The impressive speakers outdo the smaller screen. It is, however, more durable than the iPhone X. My natural inclination is to coddle all-glass phones. The result? At 3 feet (0.9 meters), it survived. So CNET bought some iPhone 8 models and submitted them to drop tests. It's hard to tell how impact-proof these phones will be in practice because Apple won't make any specific claims. (The iPhone 8 is a fraction of a millimeter bigger than the 7 all around.) It's not shatterproofĪpple says the glass in the new iPhones is 50 percent more durable than last year's iPhone 7 glass, with impact and scratch improvements and steel frame reinforcements (and more durable aluminum). The good news is that most iPhone 7 cases will work on the 8, so long as they have some flexibility. Space gray is very close to what was just 'black' on the iPhone 7. Gold looks a creamy blush-pink with gold metal highlights - more toward the older rose gold than 'true gold' end of the scale. I'm testing the silver model, and it's mostly white with silver aluminum touches. Starbucks has already pledged to make its existing wireless chargers iPhone compatible, and there are plenty of Qi chargers available on Amazon for as little as $20 in the US.Ĭolor options have shrunk to space gray, silver and gold. Still, now that Apple's on board with an existing standard - Samsung and others have long supported Qi - wireless charging looks to finally become a universal convenience. The new iPhones will charge up to 50 percent in half an hour this way, but not with included chargers. If you want faster still, spring for a separate higher-wattage MacBook charger - and, of course, the USB-C-to-Lightning cable, sold separately. But, they are convenient: Lie your iPhone on them, and charge away, provided your phone's in the charge area. Some Qi-compatible chargers like ones from Belkin and Mophie can charge up a bit faster (7.5W), but they're still not what I'd call quick-charging.

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Apple doesn't have its own wireless charge base at all, at least not yet: AirPower arrives next year, a mat that charges the new iPhones, the Apple Watch Series 3 and AirPods with a new charge case.