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Apple unveiled its most important new iPhone for years to take on growing competition from Samsung Electronics, Google and a host of Chinese smartphone makers.<\/p>\n
Chief executive officer Tim Cook showed off the iPhone X with an edge-to-edge screen during an event at the company\u2019s new $5 billion headquarters in Cupertino, California, on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Cook pronounced the name “ten,” but it\u2019s written as “X.” The device, coming a decade after the original model, is Apple\u2019s first major redesign since 2014 and represents a significant upgrade to the iPhone 7 line.<\/p>\n
Apple shares have gained about 40% this year on expectations the new phone will reignite sales growth after a rare revenue decline last year.<\/p>\n
The iPhone accounts for almost two-thirds of total sales, and it\u2019s a hub for most of Apple\u2019s other products and services.<\/p>\n
The iPhone X is expected to cost about $1,000, a pricey psychological threshold for consumers that Apple will try to overcome with augmented reality features and other new technology.<\/p>\n
“With expected innovations around AR, wireless charging, viewable screen size, OLED, and more, the next iPhone is clearly poised for its largest upgrade cycle yet,” Ben Schachter, an analyst at Macquarie Securities USA, wrote in a note to investors ahead of the event.<\/p>\n
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