The Apple WWDC (World Wide Developers Conference) is underway at the time of posting.The highly anticipated new iPhone has been announced with confirmation of some of the details already in the blogosphere and also some pleasant surprises not previously uncovered.iOS 4 Highlights, in addition, to those already announced:
- Name change from iPhone OS4 to iOS 4
- Bing search
iPhone 4 Highlights:
- Gyroscope added to existing sensors
- iMovie on-phone movie editing
- Front Camera for video calling (using Apple FaceTime)
- High Resolution ‘Retina’ display – 960×640 – 4x more pixels
- High contrast display – 4x more contrast
- Two antennas in surrounding bezel – WiFi/Bluetooth/GPS and UMTS/GSM
- HD 720p 30fps Video Recording
- LED Flash
- Apple A4 processor
- Dual microphone for noise cancellation
- 802.11n wireless
- HSPDA/HSUPA – 7.2Mbps down and 5.8Mbps up
The iOS 4 release date is 21 June 2010.The iPhone 4 release in US/UK/France/Germany/Japan is 24 June 2010.I’m surprised that FaceTime (also the name for IBM message collaboration solution) and iOS (also the name for CISCOs networking operating system) were chosen as Apple product names but I’m sure all with be revealed shortly.For more coverage see: http://live.gdgt.com/2010/06/07/live-wwdc-2010-keynote-coverage/
