Steve Jobs at WWDC
iPhone 4G is here. As expected Steve Jobs has launched the iPhone at the opening keynote of World Wide Developers Conference in San Francisco, California which commenced a couple of hours ago. Describing it as the ‘biggest leap since the original iPhone’ , Steve Job said he will discuss eight features of the ‘thinnest smartphone on the planet ‘ from over 100 new features.
The new iPhone is 9.3mm thick and is 24 per cent thinner than the iPhone 3GS. It will have a front-facing camera, microSIM, camera with LED flash, headset, and a second mic for noise cancellation. In what Jobs described as ‘brilliant engineering’ the stainless steel band around the new handset has been used as part of the antenna system. “Stainless steel for strength. Glass on the front and back. Integrated antennas, and extraordinary build quality,” summed up Jobs.
The second major enhancement was termed Retina Display. The display resolution has grown to a superb 326 ppi( pixels per inch). The iPhone 4 will ship with bigger batteries and better battery life. Seven hours 3G talk, 6 hours 3G browsing, 10 hours WiFi browsing, 10 hours music, 40 hours of music, and 300 hours of standby.Jobs also announced a new piece of hardware for the iPhone 4: a three-axis gyroscope that would tie together the gyro, accelerometer, and GPS for 6-axis motion sensing. He said the new addition was ‘perfect for gaming’.
The next enhancement in line is a whole new camera system built into iPhone 4. The new handset will have a 5 megapixel sensor with a backside illuminated sensor compared to the 3 MP camera in older models. As an added bonus, the new camera would also record HD video – 720p at 30fps. “Record and edit HD video right on your phone. It’s pretty remarkable,” Jobs said. The experience for iPhone 4 users would be enhanced through a custom built app called iMovie for iPhone. According to Randy Ubillos, Apple’s chief architect of video apps, it would allow users to “record HD video and edit with beautiful transitions and titles, all on the device you carry with you every day.” Even music can be added from iTunes.
