iPhone 4 Fever

The iPhone 4 is the product of years of developing, refining, and promoting Apple’s iPhone product lines. It significantly takes the totality of the iPhone family to the next level. Slowly but surely and one step at a time, Apple has improved its efficiency, speed, and features, including some latest development such as added camera flash, enhanced display, dual-microphone, longer life battery and enhanced multi-tasking. The physical design been improved, using steel and aluminosilicate glass to make it more scratch resistant. Add to this the compressed hardware design that makes it much thinner than its predecessors. The new antenna design though, is being observed to generate interferences from the contact of user’s hand and the phone.

Putting more pixels into smaller space is one of Apple’s specialties, (though they have done exactly opposite with the iPad). The iPhone 4 has such fine resolution that it is impossible to see the pixels individually with the naked eye. This technology is what they call the Retina display, which boasts of a 960×640 pixels. It has relatively higher resolution than its competitors (800×480), enhancing user satisfaction on the quality of video, games, and text-based applications

iPhone 4 is being governed by Apple’s A4 processor, similar to that of the iPad. It also has twice memory as the iPhone 3GS, utilizing 512MB of memory to improve system performance. The data processing speed is so much better than iPhone 3GS, noticeable when using the Cisco broadband speed test, having an advantage of about 30% than the 3GS.

The call audio quality, which is one of the most important aspects of a phone, is excellent. The speaker phone function could use more volume though.

Apple also allows other services to connect to FaceTime. This is an exciting development, as it is now possible that Skyp, MSN, Fring, Yahoo IM would someday collaborate and work with FaceTime. The disadvantage of facetime though is that it consumes a lot more power than a regular voice call because of real-time compression of audio and video.