iPhone 4 Is Finally Here

Apple unveiled the new iPhone 4 on Monday, touting it as the biggest leap since the original iPhone (launched in 2007). The iPhone 4 is said to be a quarter slimmer than the current handset and features a 5 megapixel camera with LED flash, HD video recording, Apple’s A4 processor, a 3-axis gyro and up to 40 per cent longer talk time.

The phone also offers FaceTime videophone app and Apple’s new Retina display, claimed to be the highest resolution display ever built into a phone.

In addition, iPhone 4 comes with iOS 4, which includes over 100 new features and 1,500 new APIs for developers. iOS 4 features Multitasking, Folders, enhanced Mail, Enterprise support and Apple’s new iAd mobile advertising platform.

“iPhone 4 is the biggest leap since the original iPhone,” said Steve Jobs, CEO, Apple. “FaceTime video calling sets a new standard for mobile communication, and our new Retina display is the highest resolution display ever in a phone, with text looking like it does on a fine printed page. We have been dreaming about both of these breakthroughs for decades.”

iPhone 4 is claimed to be the thinnest smartphone ever—9.3 millimeters—with an all-new design and build quality like no other mobile device. The front and back are made of aluminosilcate glass, chemically strengthened to be 30 times harder than plastic, more scratch resistant and more durable than ever.

The fourth generation iPhone allows you to access to tens of thousands of games and entertainment apps on the App Store. The new iBooks app will be available for iPhone 4 as a free download from the App Store and includes Apple’s new iBookstore. The iBooks app will sync your current place in a book, along with any bookmarks, highlights and notes you have created, between copies of the same book on your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch. iBooks users can also now read and store PDFs right in iBooks. There are now over 60,000 books available in the iBookstore.

It delivers seven hours of talk time on 3G networks, up to 10 hours of Web browsing on Wi-Fi and up to six hours on 3G, and up to 10 hours of video playback and up to 40 hours of audio playback. Powered by Apple’s new A4 processor, iPhone 4 features a second microphone and advanced software to suppress unwanted background noise for improved call quality when in loud places. iPhone 4 also offers 802.11n Wi-Fi networking and adds quad-band HSUPA to provide 7.2Mbps downlink and 5.8Mbps uplink capability.

iPhone 4 comes in either black or white and will be available in the US for a suggested retail price of $199 for the 16GB model and $299 for the 32GB model in both Apple and AT&T’s retail and online stores, Best Buy and Wal-Mart stores. iPhone 4 will be available in the US, France, Germany, Japan and the UK on 24 June 2010 and customers can pre-order their iPhone 4 beginning 15 June 2010 from the Apple Online Store or reserve an iPhone 4 to pick up at an Apple Retail Store.

Also on 24 June, a new iPhone 3GS 8GB model will be available for $99. iPhone 4 will roll out worldwide to 88 countries by the end of September.

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