http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2017/09/12/first-impressions-of-the-iphone-x-what-i-noticed-about-the-screen-facial-recognition-and-augmented-reality/ >CUPERTINO, Calif. — Apple needed to wow skeptics with its 10th-anniversary smartphone, the iPhone X.  (That's pronounced “iPhone 10,” for the curious.) As expected, Apple showed off a phone with an edge-to-edge screen, advanced facial recognition technology and no home button. >I got to try it out, spending some brief time with the phone at Apple's launch event Tuesday.