iPhone 4

[NickFitz]

Steve Jobs has just finished his keynote launch of the iPhone 4 at the WWDC. Key points:

• A4 processor + bigger battery means improved battery life:
  • 7 hours talk time
  • 6 hours 3G browsing
  • 10 hours WiFi browsing
  • 40 hours music
  • 10 hours video
  • 300 hours standby
• 960*480 display, 326ppi, IPS LCD, 800:1 contrast ratio
• 9.3mm thick (24% less than iPhone 3GS)
• Improved antenna system
• Back camera: 5Mpx, LED flash, "backside illuminating sensor" (?!) gives much better results in low light
• Front camera
• 720p HD video recording at 30fps
• WiFi upgraded to 802.11n
• HSPA+ (7.2Mbps down, 4.8Mbps up)
• FaceTime video calling: currently WiFi only (Apple are "working with" mobile operators to get it working over their networks), using either front camera (so they can see you) or back camera (so you can show them what you're seeing while still seeing them). This is going to be released as an open standard, so other smartphones will presumably join in the fun and it'll stop being an iPhone only thing
• Gyroscope: combined with existing accelerometer and compass, this gives 6-axis sensing
• Multitasking for apps
• About 100 other new features, supposedly
• Pricing looks like it'll just shadow existing iPhone 3GS pricing
• Available later this month

Puffery here, tech specs here.

[Flubster]

Steve Jobs has just finished his keynote launch of the iPhone 4 at the WWDC. Key points:

• A4 processor + bigger battery means improved battery life:
  • 7 hours talk time
  • 6 hours 3G browsing
  • 10 hours WiFi browsing
  • 40 hours music
  • 10 hours video
  • 300 hours standby
• 960*480 display, 326ppi, IPS LCD, 800:1 contrast ratio
• 9.3mm thick (24% less than iPhone 3GS)
• Improved antenna system
• Back camera: 5Mpx, LED flash, "backside illuminating sensor" (?!) gives much better results in low light
• Front camera
• 720p HD video recording at 30fps
• WiFi upgraded to 802.11n
• HSPA+ (7.2Mbps down, 4.8Mbps up)
• FaceTime video calling: currently WiFi only (Apple are "working with" mobile operators to get it working over their networks), using either front camera (so they can see you) or back camera (so you can show them what you're seeing while still seeing them). This is going to be released as an open standard, so other smartphones will presumably join in the fun and it'll stop being an iPhone only thing
• Gyroscope: combined with existing accelerometer and compass, this gives 6-axis sensing
• Multitasking for apps
• About 100 other new features, supposedly
• Pricing looks like it'll just shadow existing iPhone 3GS pricing
• Available later this month

Puffery here, tech specs here.

Thanks NF. Looks good...

[Spacecadet]

Videophoning! I'm so glad Apple got round to inventing that

[Moscow Mule]

Videophoning! I'm so glad Apple got round to inventing that

They didn't invent any of the things they are good at first, they just do it better.

[FarmerPalmer]

they are slowly catching up with htc

[Churchill]

It does look very nice. The spec looks impressive too.

The inclusion of a Gyro sounds interesting... Is it a laser Gyro?

[Spacecadet]

It does look very nice. The spec looks impressive too.

The inclusion of a Gyro sounds interesting... Is it a laser Gyro?

Laser?? Pffft thats sooo last centuary
Apple have devised a way of being create light by artificially exciting atoms, doing so in a controlled way nto emit a stream of pure iLight. They call it the Atom Pulstating Photon Light Emiter. It really is quite remarkable almost magic one might say and nothing like a laser at all

[Platypus]

Laser?? Pffft thats sooo last centuary
Apple have devised a way of being create light by artificially exciting atoms, doing so in a controlled way nto emit a stream of pure iLight. They call it the Atom Pulstating Photon Light Emiter. It really is quite remarkable almost magic one might say and nothing like a laser at all

You are Steve Jobs and I claim my 5 NeXTstations

[mavster07]

Anyone got any idea if Apple will allow the phone to be purchased outright and unlocked as O2 has been doing or is it all carrier locked in stuff again ?

[Dearnla]

Anyone got any idea if Apple will allow the phone to be purchased outright and unlocked as O2 has been doing or is it all carrier locked in stuff again ?

Check out the O2 or Vodaphone websites - they both look as if they'll have it. No sign on Orange or TMobile