News & Reviews:   Apple iPhone 8 Plus review

Holy moly,  11Street has come up with the pre-order for the brand new Apple iPhone 8 and 8 Plus on its website today (28 September 2017) and delivery will start from 30 October 2017! Both flagships are covered with a 1-Year Apple Malaysia warranty, also will be sold at the official price of RM3649 and RM4149 respective with free gifts worth RM200.

It's been a few weeks now since Apple has rolled out iOS 11, followed by iOS 11.0.1, iOS 11.0.2, iOS 11.0.3 and finally, the latest iOS 11.1 that was released on 31 October 2017. Anyway, for those who have gotten the latest iOS 11.1, the update may not seem like there are many changes except for the obvious new App Store design and the Control Centre. But there's more than meets the eye, check out our discovery of the Top 7 iOS features that are hiding in your iPhone (this should work on the iPad too, but we are focusing this on the iPhone).

As usual, Apple always never mentions the specified number on the RAM and mAh battery in their presentations. Leaving the rest of the world figuring out the figures, the company even has the audacity to post "lasts up to 2 hours longer than iPhone 7" on the iPhone X tech-specs list. Like, what does that even mean?! Anyway, we finally can rest easy as TENAA has finally unveiled the mystery.

Camera centric site DxOMark have now ranked the Apple iPhone 8 Plus at 94 while the iPhone 8 is 92, knocking down the previously ranked 90 HTC U11. The larger sensor in the iPhone 8 Plus apparently provides better photos for a top Photo score of 96 but perhaps not so much for video at 89. The single camera iPhone 8 performs just as well but isn't as good at zoom and bokeh as the bigger iPhone.

If you were one of the few to say that the Apple iPhone X is your future then perhaps you'd like to take back your words as Cult of Mac reports the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus beat out the iPhone X in GeekBench 4. Logically, it is something we fully expected considering that all of these new iPhones are running the A11 Bionic chip and the iPhone X bezel-free display and Face ID no doubt saps a good deal of processing power. The full single core and multi core scores are listed here.

The Apple iPhone X, iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus have already been officially priced at $999 (~RM4203), $699 (~RM2941) and $799 (~RM3361). However, pricing in Malaysia isn't always a direct conversion of currency from the US pricing, so our resident analyst will show you how the numbers add up and result in a Malaysia price prediction that may actually be much higher than earlier expectations. 

Finally, the long awaited 10th anniversary Apple iPhone X, along with the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus are revealed to the world. Are they expensive? Yes, yes and yes. As speculated from rumours, the iPhone X's price tag was correctly guessed at $999 (~RM4203), while the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus cost $699 (~RM2941) and $799 (~RM3361) respectively. Below is the official specifications revealed by Apple:

The 10th Anniversary of the Apple iPhone is approaching fast and all will be revealed this Tuesday (in USA time zone). We have reported plenty of iPhone rumours but this one is a unique one because it seems that we may have gotten the "official" names by a developer, who went digging up some new info on the new iPhone.

The guys at The Verge recently received official invites from Apple for their next big event, slated on 12 September 2017. The event looks to be the place where Apple will announce the Apple iPhone 8 (or iPhone 7S) and iPhone 8 Plus along with a few other Apple stuff like Apple Watch, Apple TV and so forth. While we're secretly hoping for some better thought-out AirPods, the next iPhone is rumoured to come with a bezel-free display like the Samsung Galaxy S8 or LG G6, while packing in wireless charging.

We have been hearing a lot of Apple rumours for these past few weeks already, mostly talking about the design and tech-specs. However, this particular information from Micgadget.com, a Chinese tech blog has talked about Apple will only release two iPhone models which are the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus.