Steve jobs took to the stage a short time ago at the Apple worldwide developers conference in San Francisco. While much of the fourth generation iPhones secrets were already known through a controversial Gizmodo expose, we didn’t have the details until now. So here’s the confirmation of the specs along with some surprises too – check out our iphone v4 cheat sheet for everything you need to know down the pub tonight…
Prices – $199 16GB, $299 32GB | available 24th June – Pre-order from 15th June (Inc UK)
Hardware
Powered by Apple A4 CPU (same as iPad)
IPS (in-plane switching) screen – 960 x 640 – 326 DPI – 4x the pixel density of 3GS
800:1 contrast ratio – 4x better than 3GS
802.11n Wi-Fi
40% more Talk time with new battery
Glass Front & Back
New Front facing camera – ‘FaceTime’ video Calling (Wi-Fi only for now)
Rear camera – 5MP (with backside illuminated sensor)
HD video Recording – 720P @ 30FPS
Rear LED Flash
24% Thinner than iphone 3GS
Micro Sim Tray
2nd Mic for noise cancellation
Stainless Steel band around phone incorporates antennas
three-axis gyroscope – Gaming?
Up to 32GB of Flash storage (no 64GB option)
Available in Black or White
3GS stays at $99
‘FaceTime’ video Chat
Other Stuff
iMovie for the iphone ($4.99)
– Record, edit and send HD video all on the iPhone
iPhoneOS renamed iOS – sensible with the iPad (Apple TV?) using same OS now
Multi-Tasking (Pseudo MTing – we remain to be convinced)
Unified Inbox
EMail threading
Folders
‘Deeper’ enterprise Support
Bing! added as a search option
iBooks coming to iphone – Syncs place etc across all devices
iBooks gains PDF support
iAds switched on July 1st
www.apple.com/iphone : Full Specs
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