Digital Zone 212: iPhone 4 (Special In-Depth Coverage)

Posted by Patrick Wiscombe on June 9, 2010 under Digital Zone Podcasts | Be the First to Comment

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In this edition of the Digital Zone, we talked about:

• iPhone 4
• Two million iPads sold
• Two-hundred thousand iPhone apps available
• Five million books downloaded for the iPad
• Netflix and Farmville debut on iPhone 4
• Five billion apps downloaded

Here’s the rundown of new features for iPhone 4.0 as well as some newsworthy announcements:

• Two million iPads sold
• Two hundred thousand iPhone apps available
• Five million books downloaded for the iPad so far
• New iBooks feature will include a note-taking system that emulates Post-Its, bookmarks, and native PDF viewing
• HTML 5 support for Apple devices
• Netflix comes to iPhone 4 and will work over the cell phone network as well as Wi-Fi.
• Farmville comes to iPhone 4
• Guitar Hero announced
• Five billion apps downloaded so far with $1 billion paid out to developers
• According to Jobs, iPhone has a 28 percent market share vs. 9 percent for Android.  Blackberry has a 35% share.
• iPhone 4 is thinner, has a squared-off design, has redesigned buttons, a front-facing camera, a flash on the rear camera, a secondary microphone for noise cancellation, and improved antennas integrated right into the design. It’s 26% thinner than the iPhone 3GS: The thinnest smartphone ever, according to Jobs.
• The display features 326 pixels per inch display and is called the “retina display.”
• iPhone 4 has a 960 x 640 display on the 3.5-inch display – 78% of the pixels that the iPad has.
• iPhone 4 is now powered by Apple’s A4 chip. The battery is bigger, and Jobs promises 40% more talk time than before.
• Support for 7.2Mbps networks once AT&T supports it
• iPhone 4 has an internal accelerometer and a new gyroscope feature which will sense movement on a six-axis basis.
• iPhone 4 has video editing and sharing built in. A version of iMovie will appear on the iPhone now, complete with transitions, credits.
• iPhone 4 operating system is now called iOS 4, supports multitasking, a unified inbox, threaded email, and folders that let you group apps together.
• Bing joins Google and Yahoo as a search provider option.
• iOS 4 ships to developers today with no word on a release date to the public. Nearly 100 million “iOS devices” sold to date.
• iBooks is coming to iPhone 4
• Developers who want to integrate ads into their applications can now do so via Apple’s new iAds initiative.
• iPhone 4 features videoconferencing, works in portrait or landscape mode and works on Wi-Fi and only between iPhone 4s. Older phones are shut out.
• Pricing: $299 for 32GB, $199 for 16GB, with two-year contract. Black or white. Same as 3GS. Existing iPhone owners can upgrade up to six months early. On sale June 24. iPhone 3GS will also hang around: 8GB for $99. Accessories are also redesigned
• iOS 4 upgrades for older phones arrive June 21. Free upgrade for the iPod Touch.