The long-awaited iPhone 4 has recently been released in the US and will soon follow in other markets such as the UK and Canada beginning mid-July. Featuring some new design features along with the new iOS 4, the iPhone 4 is an impressive piece of hardware with a sleek, modern design that is typical of Apple. Offered in black and white colourations and priced at £135 for the 16GB version and £205 for the 32GB version, the iPhone 4 is similarly priced to its predecessor at launch. Borrowing Apple’s custom A4 processor from the iPad and building on the ideas behind the 3GS, the iPhone 4 combines new ideas with a proven formula for success to offer an interesting and enticing smartphone. When looking for your next mobile phone you should consider comparison sites, where you can find the cheapest phone deals and the most affordable Apple iPhone 4 contracts available online.
The iPhone 4′s housing is an exercise in great design, made up of two pieces of aluminosilicate glass, specially treated to make it much harder and more stiff than plastic to increase its durability. However, it is still susceptible to cracks and chips if punished enough, as some users have discovered already. Wrapped around this glass “sandwich” is a band of custom stainless steel alloy that serves as an anchor for the structure of the phone as well as its internals, and houses the buttons, ports, and the iPhone 4′s antenna as well.
The iPhone 4 comes with both a forward- and rearward-facing camera, allowing you to make FaceTime video calls to other iPhone 4 users or take 5-megapixel pictures and capture 720p video. Additionally, the iPhone 4 has received a bump up to 802.11n and gained efficient multitasking to allow you to get the most out of the phone without quickly draining the battery. To help with the multitasking, the iPhone 4 has a 1 GHz A4 processor first debuted in the iPad to help everything run quickly and smoothly, and it is immediately apparent upon comparison with the 3GS that it has fulfilled that role quite nicely.
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Today Apple have issued a letter to iPhone 4 users where they finally address the infamous iPhone 4 reception issue and acknowledge the problem. That’s a good step.
But … they are classifying the problem as entirely a software issue, with signal strength being displayed inaccurately.
Here’s Apple’s verdict on where the problems lie:
We have discovered the cause of this dramatic drop in bars, and it is both simple and surprising.
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A huge thanks to commenter Muero for this information. He corrected the mistake I had made in my original sarcastic post about how the dictionary feature of iBooks simply didn’t work in Canada. Apparently, it has nothing to do with how many maple leaves are on your flag, but, rather, what language an eBook is set to. I had to go all the way back into Stanza on my Mac, set the of my eBook to English, and re-import the file into iBooks via iTunes to get the option to download the iBooks dictionary. After a 20 second download I was good to go and was defining words left and right like nobody’s business (Business: biz-nis -noun; none of yours.)
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iOS 4, released yesterday with much fanfare, brings seven major, new additions to the iPhone fan base, and around 100 extra smaller improvements and tweaks. The major, new benefits iOS 4 brings, dubbed “tent-poles”¬ by Apple’s CEO during one of his recent keynotes, are Multitasking; App Folders; Enhanced Mail app; iBooks for iPhone and iPod touch; Enhanced enterprise features; Game Center; and iAd.
Multitasking, the most prominent feature in iOS 4, employs several methods (services) to allow applications to perform tasks in the background, while preserving battery life and performance. Those include background audio, Voice over IP, background location, push notifications, local notifications, task finishing, and fast app switching.
Apple has posted an iOS 4 Apps section on the iTunes App Store, which is also accessible from the Featured section on the iPhone’s App Store. Currently there are 42 apps in the section, all of which utilize iOS 4’s unique features in one way or another, many taking advantage of iOS 4’s new multitasking and fast app switching capabilities.
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MyWi (reviewed here) has been updated to work on iOS 4, and has received a number of major improvements in the process. This new version is only available on the Rock App jailbreak store, though.
New features include live battery usage indicators, option for a status bar icon instead of the giant blue bar, and speed and battery usage enhancements. You can also choose to tether by USB, bringing the total number of tethering options in MyWi to three (alongside Bluetooth and Wi-Fi tethering).
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How do you close out an iPhone app that is running in the background in the new iOS 4? We’ve had more than one reader ask this question since the launch of the new iPhone operating system, and the iPhone 4, last week. Some have asked about this due to battery drain concerns, and others just because they want to be able to shut down a backgrounded app.
So this seems as good a time as any to share a quick tip on how you can force apps to close in the new iOS 4.
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It appears that iOS 4, more so than previous iPhone software, presents a less accurate signal meter, showing less signal at times than an iPhone 3GS while still being able to achieve the same or better call quality. …
Readers report that Apple’s tech support forums originally confirmed that a iOS 4.0.1 software fix addressing the issue would ship early next week (as early as Monday), before the comments were subsequently taken down along with all the other related discussion about the matter.
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On top of the infamous antenna issues, there appears to be another quite serious iPhone 4 problem that is affecting a good number of users. Namely problems with the iPhone 4 proximity sensor are causing mid-call hangups, unintended dialing and more similar troublesome behavior when using the new iPhone.
I learned of these issues via an email from a regular reader here, Brian Bothwell. Since I’ve not yet experienced the issue, I’m going to share Brian’s rundown of the problem here – as it is affecting him and he has researched it heavily …
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The App Store is currently featuring a number of ‘awesome’ iOS 4 enabled apps – so it’s easy to find some notable apps that are ready to make the most of the new OS’s features.
The list includes Apple’s own brand new iMovie app for the iPhone as well as many popular and well-known apps.
You can find the list by going to the Featured tab in the App Store and tapping on the big iOS 4 button at the top right of the screen.
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