Apple WWDC 2010 – iPhone 4G Announced
| Posted in Technology | Posted on 07-06-2010
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WWDC 2010 was fully packed, sold out in 8 days, people from over 50 countries here. Huge crowd poured in at the Apple WWDC 2010.
Everybody is excited and are awaiting to see new stuff from Apple.Over 5,200 attendees here with over 120 sessions and hands on labs by over 1,000 Apple engineers at WWDC.
Steve Jobs on Ipad: He Cites an email he got about a guy agreeing the iPad is magical because it got a girl interested in him at a cafe.iPad will be in 19 countries by the end of July. 8,500 native iPad apps currently.Along with the 200,000 iPhone apps, native apps downloaded over 35 million times.
17 apps per iPad already downloaded, “a great number.” In first 65 days, users have downloaded over 5 million books.
Steve moves to App store: Cites over 225,000 apps currently on App Store. 15,000 apps submitted per week. 95% approved within 7 days.
Explains 3 Top reasons for app rejection:
1: Doesn’t function or do what the developer says it does.
2. Use of private API’s.
3: They crash.
The World most popular game comes to the iPhone by end of June – FARMVILLE
All Facebook friends can be accessed in Farmville for the iPhone as well as all the same social functionality found on Facebook.
iPhone 4 is very thin – 9.3mm thick, 24% thinner than current iPhone. This is the thinnest smartphone on the planet.
Retina Display: 326 ppi. 300 ppi is limit of the human retina when held 10-12 inches away from the eye. Text looks like “a fine printed book.”326 ppi. 800:1 contrast ratio also 4x better than 3GS. Uses IPS technology for superb color and wide viewing angle.Retina Display has 78% of the pixels of an iPad right in the palm of your hand.Apps automatically run full size but look even better because iPhone OS automatically renders text and controls in higher resolution.With higher resolution artwork, apps/games on Retina Display “look stunning.”
iPhone 4 powered by Apple’s A4 chip designed by Apple’s own team. Biggest component in iPhone is the battery. Bigger battery plus A4 processor, 40% more talk time. 7 hours talk time. 6 hours of 3G browsing, 10 hours of WiFi browsing, 10 hours of video. 40 hours of music. 300 hours of standby.
3 axis gyro for pitch roll and yaw. Gyro + accelerometer = 6 axis motion sensing. New CoreMotion API’s for extremely precise location.Rotation of 3D objects is unbelievably smooth.Gyro joins 4 other sensors, accelerometer, compass, proximity and ambient light sensors.
The 4th generation iPhone4 comes with Dual mics, 802.11n. With 32GB of storage, quadband HSDPA/HSUPA, iIt is Capable of 7.2mbit down 5.8mbit up once carriers support that speed.
New camera system in iPhone 4 to take better photos with 5 megapixel camera. Backside illuminated sensor. 1.75 micron pixel size in sensor.5x digital zoom in camera app and tap to focus with LED flash.
Camera records HD video too. 720p at 30fps.Tap to focus video with built-in video editing.One-click sharing. LED flash can stay on during video recording. Record, edit, and share HD video right on your phone.
iMovie for iPhone can record directly in to timeline or choose from clips and photos on device.Pinching changes scale of timeline. Everything in the iMovie UI has awesome animations. Photos added automatically are Ken Burns effected. Camera records geolocation in to video.Music can be added, comes with a few tracks but any music from iPod library can be used.Can export to 360p, 520p, and 720p. Macro video shots and low light shots look amazing.
iPhone OS is now iOS 4. iOS4 has multitasking, folders, retina display integration, enhancements to mail, camera and photo apps, much deeper enterprise integration and tons of new features.
Folders can be renamed and go in the dock.
Bing is a third search option. Google will remain the default still.
Three stores on the iPhone: iTunes, iBooks, and App Store.
iAds is here for one simple reason: To help developers make free and low-cost apps for users.iAds look like, look very similar to AdMob.iAds keep users in the app when tapped instead of closing the app, loading the browser, and taking you to a random web site.
iAds enabled July 1st.$60m committed to second half of this year for iAds from advertisers.Apple expects to dominate 48% of second half of 2010 mobile advertising market after only 8 weeks of selling.
Video Calls with iPhone 4. Apple calls this “FaceTime”. Quality looks great.Apple will ship tens of millions of FaceTime devices this year.Based on many open standards, h.264, AAC, SIP, STUN, TURN, ICE, RTP, SRTP, Apple going to standards body tomorrow to make FaceTime an open industry standard.
That is the iPhone 4 for you. On sale from June 24th.
Price and availability, comes in two colors white and black just like spy shots.
Price with 2 year contract: $199 for 16GB model, $299 for 32GB model.iPhone 3GS will be $99. iPhone 4 will be in 88 countries by end of September.
iOS4 upgrades for iPhone 3GS, iPhone 3G (with not all features supported), and iPod touch (again with not all features and no first generation) for free on June 21st.
I hope the new iPhone is loved by one and all. Thanks to Steve Jobs & Apple, the greatest innovative technology company in the world. Thanks All!!!





