http://www.techradar.com/news/the-iphone-x-release-date-was-meant-for-2018-explaining-apples-odd-triple-phone-launch

The all-screen iPhone X we're holding in our hands wasn't meant for this world – at least not this year, revealed an Apple executive in a new interview.

While the iPhone X release date is Friday, November 3, 2017, the original plan was to launch the redesigned smartphone next year in 2018, according to Dan Riccio, Apple's senior vice president of Hardware Engineering to Mashable.