Animoji appears to be one of the coolest features on the new iPhone X, and while at first availability seemed to be limited to the new device because of hardware requirements, it now looks like it was more of a marketing strategy.
An iPhone X review published by Marques Brownlee points to an interesting experiment on the iPhone X and which reveals something a little bit unexpected about Animoji.
As you can see in the video below at around 11:40, it looks like Animoji does not require Face ID to work, which means that the TrueDepth camera might have absolutely no role for this new feature. In other words, the front-facing camera of the iPhone X is the one in charge of making Animoji possible.
This means that pretty much any latest-generation iPhone should be capable of featuring Animoji, even if they lack the Face ID camera because this doesn’t seem to be required anyway. The YouTube test shows that Animoji works even when the Face ID sensors are covered, … (read more)
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