Apple Announces iPhone 4

In a keynote presentation today at WWDC, Steve Jobs officially unveiled the iPhone 4. It's powered by an A4 chip, has a glass front and back, and has stainless steel around the edges, which turns out to be part of the antenna system. The new iPhone uses what Jobs called a "Retina display," running at 960x640, or 326 ppi. The battery is also bigger, with a corresponding increase in battery life. The iPhone 4 supports 802.11n, has two mics for noise cancellation, and a three-axis gyroscope, which allows rotation and precision that accelerometers can't match. The iPhone 4's camera is using a 5-megapixel backside illuminated sensor, which Jobs said does better at low-light photography. It also records 720p video at 30 frames per second, with tap-to-focus. In addition to this, they've created an iMovie app, which allows users to easily edit videos on their phone. Several live blogs of the event, with pictures, are available. The device ships in the US on June 24. Apple's product page has been updated with specs and a video. Read on for more details.
Update: 06/07 18:34 GMT by S : Steve's "One More Thing" this time around: FaceTime, live video chat from one iPhone 4 to another. It is Wi-Fi only at the moment, but they're working with carriers to expand that in the future. Jobs says the iPhone 4 OS is being renamed "iOS4," since it isn't just focused on phones anymore. The release candidate will be made available to developers today. He demonstrated multitasking, a unified email inbox, and folders for apps. In the App Store, you can expect to see an iPhone version of Netflix soon, as well as Guitar Hero and FarmVille. Jobs also announced that iBooks, the ebook application for the iPad, would be getting a few upgrades. Users will soon be able to make notes, and a bookmark button is on the way. It will put bookmarked pages into the book's table of contents. iBooks is also gaining support for viewing PDF files. On top of that, it won't be just for the iPad anymore; it's coming to the iPhone and iPod Touch as well, and it will sync between devices.

Comments

Really?

[XPeter]

Only Apple would get away with releasing key features this late. HTC has been big for what, a year? Already their phones (EVO, Incredible) are surpassing the IPhone.

-Multitasking
-HD video recording
-Dual cameras/mics

Also, it's still missing a good carrier, tethering, and flash.

All of this made in a suicide ridden factory...

Biggest Announcement

[agent_vee]

Sadly, the biggest announcement for most people was "Farmville on iPhone". Second place being "iPhone available in white!". Every other feature Apple announced has already been done by someone else.

FaceTime: The open industry standard

[Steauengeglase]

For proprietary codecs.

Who are the ad wizards who came up with that one?

[Slash.Poop]

that accelerometers can't match.

A HA HA HA!!! Sure buddy. Whatever you say.
You don't expect people to believe that do you?

More precision than highly sensitive scientific instruments!
A HA HA HA!!! Sure buddy. Whatever you say.

Re:iAds

[PopeRatzo]

a serious upgrade in the hardware department

Does anyone know what the "Retina display" means?

Is it just a marketing term (a la "Powerglide transmission") or does it actually describe some innovation in the display?

And can we please pitch in and buy Steve Jobs a sandwich? Even Kate Moss says he's too skinny.

Re:Want one so bad but won't buy

[MouseR]

Sorry... I missed when HTC leapfrogged Apple the first time around... I dont keep current. Mind refreshing my memory?

Re:iAds

[DeadJesusRodeo]

Amusing thought from a dead and overrated comic. He obviously only worked from word of mouth and never advertised his shows or albums.

Or DID he?

But then I don't live my life according to a fucking stand-up comedian. But if you take your christ figures in the shape of a professional giggle-man, more power to you. It's your life.

Re:iAds

[Pojut]

Exactly. You don't care about the reality of what's offered, but instead by your ideological aversion to having only one app store.

I see. So you're saying my opinion is wrong. Thanks.

Not wanting to be stuck with a single app store is not stupid, but choosing an inferior product for the primary reason that it has the option for additional sources of apps tends towards the irrational. I.e., fanboyism.

opinion.

Now, if you truly think that Android will end up with more apps because of this, or at the very least, more high quality apps, then your decision to avoid the iPhone is rational, but the basis behind it is still based on ideology. There's no reason whatsoever to believe that third party Android app stores is going to result in more apps than the iPhone. What will result in more apps is more users and a higher-quality user experience. Android lags significantly behind iPhone in both categories.

I haven't seen anything the iPhone OS can do that Android can't. Can you name some?

You repeat the "there's only one app store" thing over and over, but you completely fail to demonstrate how that's a problem. It's just ideology. It's fanboyism.

I told you why it's a problem. I personally don't want to be tied to a single store. It's not fanboyism, it's what I want.

Re:I don't want it, it's human blood stained

[99BottlesOfBeerInMyF]

While it sounds damn sexy, I don't want it. It is stained with blood from Foxconn employees that make Apple products.

It's deeply sad that you're just now realizing one product in the US is made by poor people being exploited in foreign countries. That applies to almost everything you buy these days because the market shifted in the direction, long ago. It's also almost ironic that you pick out the iPhone as the example of this product, since Apple has been one of the very few companies actually pushing back and not only auditing their suppliers for human rights violations, but openly publishing those audits and requiring changes from their suppliers. Heck Steve Jobs pioneered a better way when he ran NextStep, creating computers that were technologically superior to anything else in the market and were made in the US using high tech robotics for no exploitation of the poor in foreign countries. How many did you buy? You pick the flagship product from the one guy who gave everyone a chance to buy a product that was not "stained with blood" (as you put it) and choose that as where you're going to make a stand? I don't know if that's more sad or funny at this point.