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: Apple iPhone 4G

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: 2010

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: $299.00

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Desription ......... The iPhone 4G has close to 100 new features. These features include stainless steel casing which makes the iPhone 4G durable versus prior versions. It has another important and innovative feature which is a front facing camera. The iPhone 4G actually has two cameras one front facing and another at the back of the phone. Both cameras can be used at the same time if needed.

There are other notable differences between iPhone 4G and prior models. It has volume control on the side and it has accessible memory bay for a microSIM card. This is different from prior models when all of these features were control by the iPhone software of hidden behind cover.

The iPhone 4G has other visual difference versus its predecessors

30 pin connector
Sleep button
Second microphone
Headset input

The iPhone 4G has other important improvements over its rivals. It has better pixel density of its LCD display. This provides the iPhone 4G with the better quality of the display and almost eliminates pixilation from the screen. It incorporates multitouch display with high contrast ratio which makes the iPhone 4G screen easy to use and pleasant to look at. Other screen parameters that are important to note are:

960-by-640-pixel resolution
326 ppi
800:1 ratio
500 cd over m2 brightness
Oleophobic coating
326 ppi

The iPhone 4G has improved Gyroscope which is used by Apple OS to determine position relative to the ground. This gyroscope is important for implementing motion based apps such as games, navigation and additional sensor based apps. The main difference of this new gyroscope is that it is three-axis gyro which in turn allows for higher set of operations to be performed while using your smartphone. Other important sensory capabilities are:

Ambient light sensor
Accelerometer
Proximity sensor

The iPhine 4G has wide variety of apps. Its new addition is app called iMovie. It also user to add META information to their videos such as titles, captions and transitions. iMovie app allows to tag your video clips with geo location information and you can always retrieve it via any geo location capable apps such as google maps for instance. Aother notable changes in iPhone 4G over prior versions in terms of software upgrades are:

iOS 4 – new name of its software
Bing Default search
iBooks which is featured in its iPads
iAds
Video Calling

The iPhone 4G supports wide array of video as well as audio formats. Steve Jobs and his technical team did a good job by adding a lot more video/audio formats hence making the iPhone 4G more user friendly. Audio Formats Supported by the iPhone 4G are:

Apple Lossless
Audible
MP3 VBR
HE-AAC
Protected AAC
, MP3
AAC (8 to 320 Kbps),
AAX
AIFF
WAV

Video Formats Supported by the iPhone 4G are:

avi
ulaw
M-JPEG
mov
MPEG-4 video
mp4
m4v
H.264

The iPhone 4G was enhanced to view different type of application files. Apple added wide array of viewers for the documents ranging from MS Office to Adobe. We are provinf short list of file extensions compatible for viewing on the iPhone 4G

jpg
tiff
gif
doc
docx
htm
html
H.264
xlsx
xls
vcf
rtf
txt
pptx
ppt
pdf
pages
numbers li>
key

We are pleasantly surprised by the amount of technology that Apple was able to fold into such a compact and small smartphone. We expect newer version of iPhone 4G hitting shelves soon with even more features, apps, technology. Always a pleasure to see what comes out of Apple’s RD department.