Apple on Monday announced the next version of the iPhone , called theiPhone 4 , during Steve Jobs ’s keynote to kick off the company ’s Worldwide Developers Conference .
Jobs described the phone as , “ beyond a dubiety , the most accurate thing and one of the most beautiful matter we ’ve ever made ” before highlighting a turn of its new feature of speech .
Updated design
Apple state the iPhone 4 is 9.3 millimetre thick , or 24 percent slender than the iPhone 3GS . It includes a new television camera with an light-emitting diode trice on the black , but a second , front - facing photographic camera as well . There are new book button , a mute button , plus a second microphone on the top for noise cancellation . Just like the iPad , it now incorporates a micro - SIM tray .
Apple has also direct three integrated antenna into the blueprint : one for Bluetooth , one for WI - Fi and GPS , and one for UMTS and GSM .
Improved display
A new CRT screen engineering called a retina display tote up much mellow preciseness to the iPhone . In fact , at 326 pel per inch , it ’s double the 163 picture element per column inch resolution of the iPhone 3GS .
The new display is the same 3.5 inch diagonally , but at 960 by 640 it has four times as many pixels as the late model . And the 800:1 contrast proportion is also four times that of the iPhone 3GS . It use the same IPS presentation technology as the iPad and the iMac for good color fidelity , light , and viewing angle .
New processor
design by Apple , the A4 micro chip is tiny and has good top executive direction . Apple went with the micro - SIM pattern to save space , mostly for a new stamp battery that — copulate with the new poker chip — Apple says supply 40 percentage more talk of the town time . The company tell talk time is up from 5 hours to 7 hours ; 6 hours of 3 G browsing ; 10 hour of Wi - Fi browsing ; 10 hours of video ; 40 60 minutes of euphony ; and 300 hours of understudy .
Environmentally , the new iPhone is arsenic loose , BFR - free mercury - free , PVC - free , and made from highly reclaimable material .
It come in sizes up to 32 GB of computer storage ( the same as the iPhone 3GS ) and includes space - banding HSPDPA / HSUPA web with a upper limit of 7.2Mbps down and 5.8 Mbps up .
“ That ’s theoretic because the aircraft carrier do n’t bear it yet , ” said Jobs .
There ’s also 802.11n Wi - Fi wireless networking , an improvement from 802.11 g-force in the premature model .
Gyroscope
The iPhone 4 add a three - axis gyroscope for measuring angulate velocity . It can figure out pitch , roll , and yaw ; and gyration about gravity . The gyro plus the accelerometer bring home the bacon six - bloc movement sensing . There are also fresh CoreMotion APIs that developers can call for extremely precise position information — ideal for game .
New camera system
The iPhone 4 has a new , 5 - megapixel television camera with 5x digital soar and an LED flash . It also adds 720p HD video capture at 30 framing per second . To go along with the raw video capabilities , Apple has create a version of its iMovie consumer video - redaction program for the iPhone . With it , you could register or edit out you videos ( and sum picture as well ) . you may summate title , change theme , and practice music from your iTunes depository library .
iMovie for iPhone will be available for $ 5—“if we okay it , ” job jest , in reference to the App Store .
Video chat
For Jobs ’ patented ( well , probably not , but it should be ) One More Thing moment , he sat down on a chair to show off the iPhone 4 ’s video recording chatting capabilities . Using either of the two cameras , you could make video call — a feature called FaceTime — between iPhone 4 phones over Wi - Fi only — at least through 2010 . Jobs say Apple needs to “ work a little second with the cellular providers in the time to come ” . you could swop between photographic camera and chat in landscape or portait fashion .
Pricing and availability
The iPhone 4 will come in black and ashen , at $ 199 for 16 GB and $ 299 for 32 GB ( with the same qualifications and two - year contract with AT&T as in the past times ) . Apple will also add an 8 GB iPhone 3GS for $ 99 .
Jobs said that AT&T is going to make “ an unbelievably generous upgrade offer . ” If your contract expires any time in 2010 , you ’re instantly eligible for that pricing , for up to six months early eligibility . The iPhone 4 will be available from Apple and AT&T ’s retail and online storage , as well as at Best Buy and Wal - Mart stores .
The iPhone 4 depart on sales event in the U.S. , France , Germany , the U.K. , and Japan on June 24 , with pre - orders starting on June 15 . It will ship in 18 more countries in July , in 24 more in August , and in 40 more by the end of September .
Apple also showed off some accessories : a $ 29 docking facility and a $ 29 case telephone a Bumper that derive in white , black , blue , green , orange tree , or pink .
update at 11:48AM pacific with information on video FaceTime as well as pricing and accessibility .
