iPhone 8 Release Date

Apple leaks: confirm's iphone 8 released date

iPhone 8 will change everything for fans. It will look like no other iPhone, work like no other iPhone and cost far more than any previous iPhone. But if you’re still hooked then there’s one detail remaining: when will it be released? And now we know…

Letting the cat out the bag is the Wall Street Journal which states Tim Cook will unveil the iPhone 8 on September 12. It cites sources at Dow Jones and I have now also been able to confirm this date as well.

iPhone 8 will look like no previous iPhone

Interestingly, both my source and that at Dow Jones state Apple hopes to have the launch at the new Steve Jobs theatre which is on the grounds of the new Apple Campus. I say “hopes” as the WSJ notes it is still being built and to quote my 

source:

“I have every confidence that the date the WSJ has mentioned is absolutely on the money. And in fact, just between ourselves, that the Steve Jobs Theatre is pretty much certain, too (though you know what builders are like).”

It is worth pointing out the Steve Jobs Theatre is not the only thing facing a race against time. The iPhone 8 itself is suffering from significant production delays and will only be available in very limited quantities at launch (we should be 1-2 weeks from its 12 September unveiling).

iPhone 8 images tweaked to feature the exact display dimensions

Part of the reason for this is Apple’s failure to integrate Touch ID into the display, which has seen the company ditch the technology completely (at least according to the vast majority of my sources) rather than settle for it on the back or in the curiously enlarged power button. Its other headline feature, the vertically aligned dual rear camera, also brings some quirks of its own. 

That said it is the iPhone 8’s price which has most people talking. A whopping 54% increase over the iPhone 7 may well see some users run to the cheaper and more familiar guises of the iPhone 7S and iPhone 7S Plus which will both launch alongside it. 

I obtained a finalised prototype of the iPhone 8 earlier this month for those wanting an extra close look at Apple’s overhauled iPhone. For everyone else, it’s now 15 days and counting…

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