“We had the chance to spend a half an hour with the iPhone 4 in its natural habitat: an Apple-designed demonstration center in the Moscone West convention center, right after Steve Jobs’s 2010 Worldwide Developers Conference keynote. So we tried as many of its new features as we could, and got a feel for Apple’s most significant iPhone upgrade yet,” Dan Moren and Jason Snell report for Macworld.com.
“When you first heft the iPhone 4, you still get the sense that it is an extremely solid, well-put-together device. According to Apple’s specs, the iPhone 4 is a tenth of an ounce heavier than its predecessor, the 3GS, though as it measures in at a narrower 2.31 inches (to the 3GS’s 2.4 inches) and a thinner .37 inches (compared to the 3GS’s .48 inches), you get the impression of an incredibly dense device,” Moren and Snell report. “And somehow, as with every subsequent iteration of an Apple product, the company has managed to make its earlier designs look almost clunky by comparison—using the device gives you the impression that this is the handset that Apple has been waiting to make for the last three years.”
Moren and Snell report, “At 326 pixels per inch, the iPhone 4’s display offers a level of legibility that you’ve come to expect from the printed page, not a computer. The original iPhone’s high-resolution screen (163 pixels per inch) was already a huge step up from what we’d expected from a computer display, but the iPhone 4’s screen is in a completely different category… The screen uses the same in-plane switching (IPS) techniques used on the displays in all the iMacs and in the iPad. As a result, the display is bright and colorful, with a massive viewing angle that really does look great, no matter which way you hold it.
Photos and videos are absolutely spectacular on the iPhone 4. It really is like looking at a self-illuminated photographic print, not a computer image. High-resolution videos play smoothly and look immaculate.”
Read much more in the full article here.
It’s painful to read all these glowing reviews on my 3GS and have to wait weeks to upgrade…
A new game all over again – no competition worth it’s salt in sight for years
Now imagine the 4th generation iPod touch (I have the 2nd) – with at least one of those cameras and a Retina screen. Come the holiday shopping season they will be flying off the shelves. Or next year’s iPad. The biggest problem will be keeping up with demand.
“We had the chance to spend a half an hour with the iPhone 4 in its natural habitat”
At a German beer garden with bar stools?
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I’m just thinking that these phones would make great skipping rocks on a lake and makes me wonder…. is there a rock skipping app in the app store, it might work!!
Might need a strap to tie it in to your hand so you don’t actually throw it
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Send Em All Back to the Drawing Board.
“Dare i Say Bloodbath”
“And somehow, as with every subsequent iteration of an Apple product, the company has managed to make its earlier designs look almost clunky by comparison.”
Oh really? How quickly we forget when Apple went from the rich, sturdy, classy aluminum shell of the iPhone to the cheap, plasticky iPhone 3G. There was nothing clunky about the original design. It felt like you were holding a Mercedes in your hand. The reason why the iPhone 4 is such a stark contrast is because Apple fell off the wagon for two generations.
With iPhone 4, however, it’s once again a sexy device in a class by itself. So I forgive them. And I bet it feels like a Benz again. Let’s hope Steve and Jonny don’t lose track in the future.
“keep dreaming, what apple have not tell you is that the new iPhone does not have plastic keabord also”
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I love the cell antennas built into the case. Form follows function.
Eight people bought iPhones after seeing mine for the first time. (3 years ago) They are ALL upgrading on day one. Must be great to create a product that people can’t wait to buy the second it’s released.
I love the design. It is fine art for the consumers hand. Rare in the commodity world of phones. But, it is time to give up my iPhone 1 with iOS 3.
Thanks for making the Androids look like rusting hulks of post iron age design.
OH, I hope the references to Mercedes Benz was to feel and look. Because thaey rate at the very bottom of the list in the US for reliability. In fact, 120 to 240 percent more likely to have problems.
If, look and feel- thumbs up!
twilight wrote: It’s painful to read all these glowing reviews on my 3GS and have to wait weeks to upgrade…
Pfft… try living in Canada, we’re stuck on 3 year plans so I’ll have my 3GS for another 2 years.
Goddamn Canadian cell phone companies…
I’ll be pre-ording mine as soon as I can. I hope they’ve ramped up the production to accomodate the orders. It’s going to be just as big of a hit as the iPad.
Maybe I’ll be wowed in person, what with the pretty glass and all, but I am still not the biggest fan of the overall look of the design.
I am glad to know that the stainless steel wrap is purposeful. Maybe that, too, will look more appealing in person. From the Gizmodo pictures, it seemed too shiny.
I don’t know what “game” Apple is playing, but it looks like Apple is the only player. Everyone else is playing some other game by a difference set of rules.
Although I can’t wait to get mine, I’m still disappointed in the lack of a 64 GB option. I would gladly pay extra for it, and have the phone be a little thicker, in order to accomodate.
All of the others try to offer an almost the same matching device that can only follow with a imperfect elusion of something that is kind-alike what Apple is supplying.
It is like being in a desert and you are reaching for that cold icy glass of water and some idiot has a glass of warn swamp mud they are trying to get you to take.