We have all been waiting for this moment for a long time. The leaked photos, police raid, vietnamese photo leaks, rumors upon rumors about the features – it’s the culmination of all these events was today.
The WWDC 2010 Steve Jobs keynote.
We were following the live blogs from the Steve Jobs keynote.
Here are some of the important announcements before they announced the iPhone HD
- iBooks for iPad getting an update with PDF capability
- Netflix for iPhone coming this summer. FREE app.
- Farmville for iPhone coming by end of June. You access the same farms in Facebook! Push notifications for withering crops.
- Guitar Hero on sale today for $2.99.
- 5 billion iPhone apps downloaded from App Store. Paid $1 Billion to developers.
Here the details we gathered for the new iPhone 4!
- 9.3 mm thick! Thinnest smartphone in the world!
- Front facing camera
- Micro SIM tray
- Integrated antennas
- 5MP camera with LED flash
DISPLAY - 3.5 inch display
- 4x pixel density improving the resolution twice over
- 326 pixels per inch retina display. Human eye can read 300 ppi.
- 800:1 contrast ratio
- 960×640 display – existing apps look better
- iPhone glass is 30 times stronger than plastic – same as sapphire crystal.
Processor - A4 processor. Bigger battery.
- 7 hours 3G talk, 6 hours 3G browsing, 10 hours WiFi browsing, 10 hours music, 40 hours of music, and 300 hours of standby
- A4, 32GB, quad band HSDPA / HSUPA, dual mics, 802.11n
CAMERA - New Camera system - 5 MP back illuminated sensor with same pixel size. 5x digital zoom + LED flash. Tap to focus.
- Records HD video, 720p at 30fps. Built-in video editing. LED flash to stay on for video.
- Tap to focus in video. One click sharing.
- iMovie for iPhone – Use it in portrait or landscape mode. Record directly into a video timeline, add transitions, add photos for Ken Burns effect, 5 different themes, auto-geolocation add for certain themes.
- iMovie for iPhone – $4.99!
iOS 4 - 1500 developer APIs, 100+ new user features
- Bing search added
- Golden Master Candidate for developers today. Users to get it soon. (?)
- Free upgrades to iPhone 3GS, 3G on June 21st.
iBooks for iPhone - The same controls, the same highlighting, the same bookmarking, the same PDF reading
- Download the same book to all devices with one purchase. Just like apps. Wireless sync!
- PDF reading – Showing selections, highlighting with colors, notes, bookmarks
iAds - Devs get 60% of the revenue
- Apple hosts the ads
- Payments via iTunes Connect
- iAds enabled July 1st.
FaceTime - Video calling on iPhone 4 is called FaceTime.
- WiFi only in 2010.
- Switch from front or rear camera automatically.
- iPhone 4 to iPhone 4 only.
Colors - Black and White
Price - $199 16GB & $299 32GB with 2 year contract
- Pre-Orders on June 15
- Launches on June 24 in US
- Shipping in five countries, US, France, Germany, UK, Japan — in July, we’ll be doing 18 more countries.”
Accesories - New iPhone dock $29
- New Apple iPhone case – Bunker $29.
We will keep updating this post as we gather more info. Ask us anything in the comment and we will try answer it for you.
