Normally the ether would be sizzling with a major new announcement from Apple. Blown of course this time by some twit on their staff losing his tester iPhone...
But now it is out there, and although it is pretty much everything we heard, there were a couple of new details, as explained by dVice:
At 9mm, it's 24% thinner than the iPhone 3GS (but weighs 3 grams more), it has a front-facing camera (640 x 480) with "FaceTime" video calling (but it's Wi-Fi only), an LED flash alongside its new 5-megapixel camera's lens on the back, and separate buttons for volume up, down and mute. It also has a stainless steel rim that functions as the antenna.
Its 3.5-inch display, the same size as current iPhones, has higher resolution (960 x 640), with four times the pixel count of its predecessor. Jobs is calling it the "retina display." That's because, as Jobs put it, "There's a magic number around 300dpi, if you hold something about 10 to 12 inches away from your eye, it's the limit of the human retina to distinguish pixels." The kicker? IPhone 4 has 326dpi resolution.
iPhone 4 has a larger battery than previous models, and Jobs says that will give it 40% more talk time, six hours of 3G browsing, 10 hours of WiFi browsing, 10 hours of video, 40 hours of music, and 300 hours of standby. Those numbers have been exaggerated in the past, so your mileage will probably vary.
This new version of the iPhone has improved video-shooting capabilities as well. It's now packing a 720p camcorder that shoots at 30 frames per second. There's also a new video editing app for $4.99 — a mini version of iMovie developed specifically for the iPhone, and introduced at this keynote by Randy Ubillos, creator of pro editing apps Adobe Premiere and Final Cut Pro.
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