You’ll have to wait until November 3 to get your iPhone X (if you’re lucky), but plenty of Apple employees are already carrying one. The YouTube video below provides a hands-on look at one of those devices from within Caffé Macs at 1 Infinite Loop.
With just 87 subscribers, Brooke Amelia Peterson isn’t exactly one of YouTube’s biggest vloggers. But thanks to her father, who works at Apple and already owns an iPhone X, her channel could be about to fetch a lot more attention.
Peterson has published one of the first previews of an iPhone X in the wild. Her video, embedded below, provides around a minute of hands-on time with the device. We get to see the Home screen, apps, the camera, and Animoji in action.
They’re all things we’ve seen before, but they look even more spectacular in a real-world setting. iPhone X’s edge-to-edge display looks glorious in the hand. Its software seems incredibly smooth and snappy, and that swipe gesture to return to the Home screen is beautifully intuitive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1EpT41QAOw
There are some interesting tidbits to take from this clip. It seems Apple has placed shortcuts for the flashlight and camera inside iOS 11’s new Cover Sheet, as well as on the lock screen. You will also notice a “Welcome to iPhone X” notification from the Tips app.
It’s also interesting that even some Apple employees are still referring to the company’s latest handset as “iPhone ex,” rather than “iPhone 10.”
The video was filmed inside Caffé Macs, a café inside the Infinite Loop campus where guests are permitted. It’s not clear what Peterson’s role is at Apple, or if his superiors would approve of an early hands-on video with his iPhone X. But we’re certainly not complaining.
Killian Bell is a freelance writer based in the U.K. He has an interest in all things tech and also covers Android over at CultofAndroid.com. You can follow him on Twitter via @killianbell.
4 responses to “Video shows off iPhone X from inside Apple’s campus”
yea they definitely had permission to post this. especially close to the release date.
Anybody got a new link? “Video was removed by user”
What I don’t understand is why no one contacts this juvenile person and asks her to remove the video because obviously everyone knows about the problems her dad could have. Instead media are gaining profit out of it, others are making screenshots and copies and even reuploads of the video.
Media is not only about reporting everything but also about responsibility.
There are a couple of issues here. One video is not allowed on Apple’s campus, especially not Infinite Loop. The security training for employees expressly states that. Two that phone might not have been a regular production build of the iPhoneX it could have been a developer release with a developer version of iOS. I haven’t seen the original video but it could have shown some stuff not intended for the general public.