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Apple's 10th anniversary iPhone model might be called the iPhone X The company is expected to unveil two more iPhone models on Tuesday Apple is also expected to refresh TV, Watch lineups and introduce Animoji A series of leaks this weekend seem to have spilled the beans on what Apple plans to unveil on Tuesday, its major September event that it has traditionally used to showcase new iPhone models with cutting edge technologies to reassert its tentpole position in Silicon Valley. The tenth anniversary iPhone model will be called the iPhone X, according to developer Steven Troughton Smith, who analysed a leaked build of iOS that will be released to consumers later this month and found several references of the upcoming iPhone models in the strings of software code. According to code, the iPhone X will be launched alongside two other iPhone models called the iPhone 8 and the iPhone 8 Plus, reaffirming that Apple is skipping the "S" cycle, jumping to iPhone...

Samsung is slated to unveil the next iteration in its Galaxy Note line on August 23rd, but a crisp image of the handset was just leaked to VentureBeat’s Evan Blass and posted to Twitter. The Galaxy Note 8, which Samsung hinted at in its New York City launch event invite with the phrase “do bigger things,” looks in the product image like a monstrous smartphone, thanks largely to the edge-to-edge Infinity Display technology of the Galaxy S8. Stretched to fit the Note’s larger frame, the screen looks even bigger and the bezels almost nonexistent. We don’t know too much else about the Note 8, other than that it will come with a dual-camera system and a hopefully non-exploding battery. Given last year’s horrendous Note 7 recall, and the damage it did to the Galaxy brand, Samsung is under serious pressure to deliver a flawless premium phone that can win back consumers and reestablish the Note name in the high-end phablet market. Thanks THEVERGE and @evleaks !