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Steve Jobs is announcing the details of the next iPhone currently Here’s are the iPhone 4 details. The new iPhone 4 is very thin – 9.3mm thick, which is 24% thinner than current iPhone. The iPhone 4 has a stainless steel case for less smudges and scratches, the band that goes around the iPhone 4 works as an antenna.

The iPhone 4 3.5 “inch display is called a Retina it is 960 x 640 pixels with 326 ppi (pixels per inch), 78% of the pixels of iPad. Jobs claims is better than OLED. The rear 5 megapixel camera has LED flash and 5x digital zoom and there is a front facing camera for video chat.

Other iPhone 4  Features

• A4 processor is the same that runs the iPad.
• Super motion sensing with 3 axis gyro, that ties the gyro and
  accelerometer, compass, and gyro
  together for six axis. It’s perfect for gaming.
• 8021.n Wi-Fi
• Dual mic noise surpression.
• Improved battery life – with 40% more talk time.7 hours of 3G
  talk, 6 hours of 3G browsing, 10 hours of
  WiFi browsing, 10 hours of video, 40 hours of music.
• Video specs – HD video recording (720 pat 30 fps), tap to focus
  video and built-in video editing.
• New iPhone OS 4 features including multitasking.
• iMovie for iPhone is .99 -  has a time line, add photo feature
  and video editing features.

The demonstration did not go off without a glitch, audience members were asked to
shut off  Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi hotspots that were causing problems with the
demonstrations. 

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The new iPhone 4 arrives on June 24, and you can pre-order or reserve yours on June 15. There are two versions 16 GB edition priced at 9 and a 32 GB model priced at 9 at AT&T. iPhone 4 will come in white and black.

If we go into the Wireless and Mobile News way-back machine, we noted that some studies suggested that iPhone problems with AT&T were not due to the network but due to “antenna” and radio issues. The new iPhone 4 has an antenna built right into the case which should help a lot.

We discovered more features of the iPhone 4. For Facetime with Friends there is a new video chat app FaceTime.

FaceTime is lets you see friends anywhere there is Wi-Fi. Using FaceTime is as easy as making a regular voice call, with no set-up required, and you can instantly switch to the rear camera to show others what you are seeing with just a tap.

OS 4, has over 100 new features, including Multitasking, Folders, enhanced Mail, deeper Enterprise support and Apple’s new iAd mobile advertising platform. With Multitasking, users can now switch between any of their apps while preserving battery life. With Folders, users can organize their apps into collections by simply dragging one app on top of another.

The new iBook app will be available for iPhone 4 as a free download from the App Store and includes Apple’s new iBookstore, to browse, buy and read books on a mobile product. 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, and users have downloaded over five million books in the first two months.

Steve Jobs also noted the new iPhone is environmentally friendly.

Phone 4 embodies Apple’s continuing environmental progress. It is
designed with the following features to reduce environmental impact:

• PVC-free handset.
• PVC-free headphones.
• PVC-free USB cable.
• Bromine-free printed circuit boards.
• Mercury-free LCD display.
• Arsenic-free display glass.
• Majority of packaging made from post-consumer recycled
  fiberboard and biobased materials.
• Power adapter outperforms strictest global energy efficiency .

  AT&T will also offer current iPhone 3GS 16GB and 32GB models at new, lowered price points of 9 (16GB) and 9 (32GB), with a two-year term commitment plus voice and data plans, while supplies last.

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