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New iPhone X’s features will excite Kenyan users

By HILARY KIMUYU December 19th, 2017 2 min read

Nearly a decade after the original iPhone was unveiled to the world, the much anticipated Apple iPhone X was launched into the Kenyan market on Friday night.

The phone is redesigned to take full advantage of the Super Retina display and replaces the Home button with fast and fluid gestures, allowing customers to naturally and intuitively navigate device.

The future of the Smartphone that features the first ever OLED screen rises to the standards of iPhone and elevates the handlers’ usage capacity.

Speaking during the launch, Sajan Thomas, Regional Business Head East Africa for Redington said the amazing device has an all-screen display that precisely follows the curve of the device with no border allowance.

“The entire face of the phone is a screen, and now here we have iPhone X,” he said.

The device comes in gorgeous silver and space grey colors, all-glass front and back featuring the most durable glass ever in a Smartphone with a highly polished, surgical-grade stainless steel band seamlessly wraps around and reinforces iPhone X.

ELEGANT AND DURABLE

A seven-layer color process allows for precise color hues and opacity on the glass finish and a reflective optical layer enhances the rich colors, making the design as elegant as it is durable.

It is 5.8 inch, Super Retina display which employs new techniques and technology to precisely follow the curves of the design, all the way to the elegantly rounded corners.

iPhone X features the 7MP TrueDepth camera and an improved 12MP rear camera with dual OIS that introduces a revolutionary new way to securely unlock, improved authenticate and pay.

While the new 7-megapixel TrueDepth camera enables Face ID features wide color capture, auto image stabilization and precise exposure control, and brings Portrait mode to the front camera for stunning selfies with a depth-of-field effect.

“Wireless charging will not be an issue for the iPhone X users since the glass back design enables a world-class wireless charging solution. The wireless charging works with the established Qi ecosystem” said Johnson Thankchan the head of sales, East Africa, Redington.

The phone will retail from Sh125,000 ($1250) and Sh140,000 ($1400) respectively.