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.

Introducing the device, marketing head Phil Schiller said the firm wanted to "reach as many people as possible".

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.

Apple is offering a new Haptic touch system, instead of 3D Touch, that is similar to the buttonless MacBook Pro trackpad.

The XR also has only a single rear camera, but the wide-angle 12 megapixel lens is still capable of taking Bokeh-enabled Portrait images, complete with background blur.

The XR also supports Dual SIM capabilities.

Unlike its two XS siblings though, those wanting an XR have slightly longer to wait, with the device not going on sale until October 26.