Apple reveals iPhone 4 release date
Apple has revealed that the iPhone 4 will be released later this month across all major territories.
The iPhone 4 features an updated design, thinner and flatter than previous models, with glass on the front and back complemented by steel edging. According to Apple it's the thinnest smartphone on the planet, measuring in at just 9.3mm.
The iPhone 4 will launch on 24th June across the UK, France, Germany, Japan and in the US. Pre-orders will begin on 15th June.
Apple has only announced US pricing at the moment, which sees at 16GB iPhone 4 priced at $199 USD as part of a contract, while the 32GB iPhone 4 will cost $299 USD. The previous model, the iPhone 3GS, will drop to $99 USD on contract.
New features for the iPhone 4 include a better screen, boasting 326 pixels per inch, increased battery life, a front facing camera and Apple's new A4 processor. Apple has also included a new Gyroscope to improve motion-sensitive functionality.
Apple's estimates for iPhone 4 battery life say you get seven hours of 3G talk, six hours 3G browsing, 10 hours Wi-Fi browsing, 10 hours video, 40 hours music and 300 hours of standby per full charge.
The iPhone 4 will also get the ability to record HD video in up to 720p at 30fps, with iMovie making the move to the iPhone for $4.99 USD.
Those of us who don't want to upgrade from our existing iPhone or iPod Touches will get access to the iPhone OS 4 - now named iOS 4 - on 21st June. It'll be available for all second-gen and up models for free, but won't come to first-gen devices.
iOS 4's major features include multi-tasking and the option to organise your apps into your own folders.
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Discuss in the forums ReplyI will continue to use my 3GS which is serving me very well :)
I would of liked to seen the memory increased so the options were 32Gb & 64Gb
BTW although the 3GS is dropping to the lower price point it is also losing memory down to 8Gb
They ended up asking people to turn off their Wifi on their own phones. Marketing Genius!
not for me. My contract is up on the 21st of august and I can upgrade up to 1 month earlier than that. The 24th July is the closest Saturday to that. Plus I get paid on the 23rd. Got it all worked out
I guess the video recording is pretty good, but I am sure it cant beat a proper video camera if you are into that sort of thing.
Dissapoited to see only a 5mpx camera, every smartphone released over the last 6 months already has a 5mpx camera and some have higher.
The resolution bump is nice but the advantages and disadvantagesof LCD vs OLED mean it's not gonna much if anything of an upgrade from any other high end smartphone in the last year or 2 (great for 3G/3GS users who don't want to move to a superior platform though :p)
5mp camera is nothing unusual although the 30fps 720p recording is good (though many other phones do 720p @ 24fps anyway).
Front camera might be useful to some people but video calling will be stupidly restricted to Wifi only (at least to start with).
No real innovation on the software front.
In the mean time, every other manufacturer will continue to provide better hardware specs whilst other OS' close the gap / surpass iOS and the difference in apps store becomes less & less.
It'll still sell about 20m units though no doubt.
IN august alone. No doubt.
But they can watch you! *readjusts-tinfoil-hat*
Ummm, what's with the pricing? It means nothing. I can sell you a brand new Mercedes Benz for 1$! (with a contract)*
*no, I'm not mentioning the terms...noo, just read 1$ Mercedes Benz!:D
It's not the number of pixels that creates a good picture, it's how it's processed that counts. I had an HTC Legend for a while, it just didn't satisfy me like the iphone does. The iphone just does things in a much nicer, easier, simpler and satisfying way. People with other phones keep seeming to have to compare specs with the iphone to get the upper hand. When you own one, you will understand why specs are not all that
570 available wi-fi networks in that time, no wonder there were problems
yeah, but it's IPS display which changes a lot in comparison to OLED/AMOLED especially in the sunlight
But I guess if I did need one, you only have to buy Apple one right? Apple makes the better one? or not? hehe.. see what I mean now?
I wonder will they make you guys buy all those apps all over again?
Want to know how much radiation your iphone is giving off? There's an app for that..a Geiger Counter.
Well whose fault is that? Couldn't he use the supposed fantastic mobile internet coverage?
think ill wait for iphone 4S which we all know is comming sometime next june ( 2011)
In Soviet Union of Finland, we got 16 GB 3GS for a bit shy of 600 Eur. Man sometimes I hate this country.
That's with a 2 year subscription to AT&T, read the fine print. ;)
Actually, the amount of signal power needed for mobile phones has decreased over the years as technology has advanced. That iPhone you're so worried about frying your brain requires about a quarter of the peak signal strength that an old breezeblock-sized analogue mobile needed and that would just be in low signal areas where it had to boost the gain to get a lock on the local base station. In a high signal area, the signal wattage needed would be a fraction of a watt.
Thats why i said pro & cons. IPS isn't some magical technology. It's the same technology i have in both my monitor & TV so i am well aware of the advantages.
I did. You need to make 2 year contract with our local servide provider (Sonera), and still just the iPhone costs you almost 600 EUR over the 2 year subsciption period.
Probably, that should be "or" - although I'd be much happier if it was true as written!
IPS is worse than what they were already using before in the sun.
http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/news/item/11646_Sunlight-the_flaw_in_many_a_ma.php
http://blog.gsmarena.com/pixel-qi-transflective-lcd-trounces-the-ipad-unit-in-broad-daylight
Retina display... Retina display has a Pixel Per Inch of 326, and the Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 has PPI of 312, so if you want to see how good Retina display is, go check out an SE X1 or LG Arena, or any other phone with a WVGA resolution with a 3.0" screen or smaller. It has been observed that the unaided human eye can generally not differentiate detail beyond 300 PPI. I formerly owned an Arena, and frankly, I can't even see a pixel in my N900. Talking about high PPI... Kopin unveils smallest color SVGA display - optics.org
In other words : You should have gone with Super AMOLED, Jobs. I'd probably jump ship from my N900 to an Galaxy S when I can, but I'm still evaluating the merits and cons of switching, and day by day it becomes less tempting.
And that is why they have such a small market share: until the price comes down, Apple will continue to be tounced in terms of pure sales volume by everyone else (even Blackberry sells far more than Apple does).
The new ones work better!
I for one look set to jump on the Iphone4 wagon, HTC is very very nice but the 3GS in my opinion felt more polished.
Iphone4 with its dimensions should also sit nicely in my pocket.
AMOLED screens are nice (I've seen a few, and they are nice) but their daylight visibility is poorer than on the iPhone LCD screen and the colour values and contrast are off too (not that it really matters. It's just a mobile phone, y'know?).
if it ran out july this year, i could have a free upgrade :(
Oh well o2 shop here I come on the 24th
The gyroscope I had when I was younger was a 10cm sphere with a rotating mass in it.
Or do they have electronic gyros now??
For the price they're asking (£500 - £600) you would have thought the new iphone should have the best hardware etc for a smartphone but it's still playing catch up to things like samsung i8910hd, sony xperia etc!
As long as it does the job I want it to with a seemless experience what is under the hood does not concern me.
What exactly does the iPhone4 need to 'catch up' with in comparison to either the i8910HD or Xperia?