I Phone 8 Plus - Apple's Flagship Phone...For Now!

From £799 FROM Apple, apple.com/uk FEATURES 5.5-inch Retina HD display with True Tone, A11 Bionic chip, 12MP camera, wireless charging

- Dan Grabham & Graham barlow

We’ll start with the elephant in the room – the new iPhone 8 Plus looks a bit dated compared to Android rivals, which is a shame. The large bezels look simply ridiculous up against the Galaxy Note 8 and S8+.

There are three colour options; slate grey, silver and gold – although the new gold colour is a bit rosier in appearance than the old gold you can see on the iPhone 7 Plus.

The iPhone 8 Plus has a brand new chip, the A11 Bionic processor, which moves to six cores rather than the four inside the iPhone 7 Plus’s A10 Fusion. According to our benchmarks this is easily the fastest phone on the market today.

The iPhone 8 and 8 Plus are actually quite a departure for Apple in terms of graphics because they’re the first handsets that use Apple’s own graphics processor instead of Imagination’s PowerVR graphics, which Apple has used over the last decade.

These performance improvements show in general use and everything is noticeably punchy, even when adding effects to photos or editing them. Anecdotally, it feels faster than an iPhone 7 Plus on iOS 11, but we weren’t using a box-fresh iPhone 7 Plus.