Apple iPhone 4
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.