design

• Aluminosilicate glass that claims to be 20-30 times stronger than plastic
• 34% thinner
• 3 grams heavier, weighs 137 grams
• “thinnest smartphone ever”
• Split volume buttons
• stainless steel rim – acts as atenna for 3G and WiFi
• 4.5 x 2.31 inches and .37 inches thick

The hardware

• A4 Chip processor – just like the iPad
• Power VR SGX 535 graphics card
• subcomponents automatically switch off when not used
• battery is 16% larger
• 40% more talk time
• Apple states
  • Talk over 3G: 7 hours.
  • Browsing over 3G: 6 hours.
  • Browsing over Wi-Fi: 10 hours.
  • Video: 10 hours.
  • Music: 40 hours.
  • Stand-by: 300 hours.
• 3.5 inch display – same as before
• 960 x 640 pixels retina display – four times as many as in the previous iPhone
• 326 ppi
• oleophobic layer – easier to clean
• bigger sensor for the main camera, bigger lens as well
• back light that can be used for flash as well as videoing
• standard VGA conference camera – face time
• built in 3-axis gyroscope and accelerometer – so 6-axis motion sensing
• micro-SIM standard
• additional microphone on the top used for noise cancelation

The software

• iOS 4
• multi-tasking
• Retina display will re-scale all apps to looker sharper and less pixelated
• facetime available over 3g
• iMovie with 1,500 new features
• 720p high definition video recording
• ibooks

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