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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Andrew Griffin

iPhone Xr: Apple reveals new, cheap and colourful handset at launch event

Apple has revealed the iPhone Xr, the cheap and colourful version of its brand new handset.

At an event where it also showed off the iPhone Xs, Xs Max and Watch, it revealed that it was making a much cheaper version of the iPhone Xs.

While it lacks some of the more premium features of that phone and last year's X, it is much more affordable.

And it comes in a range of different colours: white, black, blue, red, coral and yellow. All of them are aluminium, unlike the Xs, with a matte look familiar from all the phones that preceded the iPhone X.

And it still includes many of the same features and design, including the screen that sweeps right across the front of the phone.

Also, just like the iPhone X, it has the notch at the top and no home button at the bottom.

Inside of that notch is the Face ID camera, which powers the same facial recognition technology that's present in the X and now the Xs, too.

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