WWDC 10: Steve Jobs unveils the iPhone 4 ; announces free iPhone OS 4 upgrade
We were truly excited about Steve Jobs’ keynote address at the 2010 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC 10) today, and he didn’t help calm us down any by saying we ‘won’t be disappointed’!
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Now that the keynote is past, and our baited breath has turned into coffee breath, we’d like to honestly say we were a wee bit disappointed. We knew that Jobs was almost definitely going to show off the new iPhone (name confirmed as the iPhone 4) today, and to not do so would have been to go against three consecutive years of iPhone tradition, but that it would be nearly the only thing he talked about wasn’t the storm of revelations we pictured!
And this is when we realised that the leaked prototypes we all ogled at in the past month or so have now made our eyes water in unrequited expectation... We saw too much of the ’oh so’ closely guarded secret, and let our guards down, ending up not truly satisfied with just the unveiling. But that might be exaggerating things a little. When Steve Jobs says “the iPhone reinvented the phone”, he certainly wasn’t kidding, and however expectant we might have been, it doesn’t subtract too much from the sheer potential of the iPhone 4:
iPhone 4
We know that to start reporting with the statistics and updates that Steve (first name basis at this point – perhaps it’s the sense of familiarity) traditionally showers upon his audience before winding up for the curtain raiser would only make you scroll down in frustration, so let’s leave those for later, and start with the main attraction, the coup de jour, the iPhone 4:
Jobs always breaks it down into chewable morsels for us to swallow, and he didn’t disappoint (or choke) us. Here is the iPhone 4 introduced in 8 easy parts (or as Jobs put it, 8 out of the 100s of new features):
1) All New Design
As we’ve said before, the leaked prototypes did give away a bit too much for us to be overexcited about this, but some surprises certainly were in store for us...
- Stainless steel body, glass on front and back
- Super thin at 9.3mm, 24% thinner than the iPhone 3GS, and the “thinnest smartphone on the planet”
- Dedicated volume controls and mute button on the left side
- Micro SIM tray on the right side
- Front facing camera, receiver and the home button on the front
- Rear facing camera and LED flash on the back
- 3.5mm jack, sleep/wake button, and secondary microphone on top
- Primary microphone, 30pin connecter, and speaker on the bottom
We knew all this, but it was great to see it confirmed anyways, in high-res. Jobs next revealed the shocker, the reason for all those un-Apple-like seams/lines we’d all noticed on the prototypes... antennas. That’s right, three seams, to break the stainless steel edge casing into 5 different integrated antennas, a never-before-used engineering work that Jobs called “really cool”. They’re for UMTS, GSM, GPS, WiFi, and Bluetooth.
Seams in stainless steel
Read on to know more about the 7 remaining defining features of the iPhone 4, from the camera to the display
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