Everybody here at Discount-Mobiles.co.uk loves iphone for the "apps", apple are way ahead of anything else as far as applications go.
The iPhone 4 is the culmination of years of refining Apple’s iPhone line of products. One by one, Apple has improved features and the latest iteration enhances a number of important elements like display, camera (with Flash), dual-microphone, larger battery and multi-tasking – just to cite a few. The design itself has been updated to use steel and aluminosilicate glass, which is ultra-resistant to scratches (but not shocks).
Thin:
If you have been using an iPhone 3GS before, the iPhone 4 is noticeably thinner. The management of the internal volume is pretty amazing, and I’m not using that word lightly. The industrial design is excellent, although the antenna issues tones it down a little. Among the things that I really like in this design are the buttons: on/off, volume +/- are very easy to “feel” with the fingers and to use. This is something that most competitors often screw up. I use the power button dozens of times a day, so it should be nice and easy to reach.
Feels good:
The body of the iPhone 4 is very thin, much thinner than the iPhone 3GS, which was already considered to be very slim. At first, it’s a little weird because despite the smaller volume, the weight stays the same. The iPhone 4 feels incredibly dense and solid. I got used to it after a few hours. The good news is that even with a case on, it should stay very compact.
New hardware platform:
The iPhone 4 comes with Apple’s A4 processor, as found on the iPad and it also packs 512MB of memory, which is twice as much as the iPhone 3GS. The additional memory is probably most useful to accommodate the new multi-task capabilities of the iPhone 4, but it might also bring some added performance to the system. The A4 processor should also be faster than its predecessor (the phone does feel faster) but speed was usually not a real issue on the 3GS, so the difference is not eye-popping.
Bumper:
To alleviate shocks when the phone gets dropped, Apple has invented the "bumper", a plastic piece that goes all around the phone. It comes in different colors (orange, blue, pink, green, white, black). I have played with the black bumper, and I sure wish that I won’t have to use it. It is probably efficient at what its doing, but it hides the steel band, which is one of the best feature of the phone, I think. Also, the metals feels much better than the Bumper’s plastic.
Apple A4 processor:
You will see a ton of articles saying that both the iPhone 4′s A4 processor and the iPhone 3GS Samsung processor are based on an ARM Cortex A8 design – this keep coming, and coming… Well, that’s true, but it means… *nothing*. As I have said before, smartphone chips are pretty much the equivalent of a PC motherboard, complete with CPU, GPU, RAM and other co-processors. The CPU, the Cortex A8 is one among many blocks within the chip. Telling you that a PC has a Core i5 processor doesn’t tell you much about it
s overall capabilities – it’s the same for the smartphone chip. Maybe it has a few dedicated co-processors that make video and 3D graphics zippy. Or maybe the bus linking all the parts is super fast and let data flow freely. Or maybe the individual blocks have been designed to be shut down at any moment to save more power. “Based on an ARM Cortex A8″ tells you none of that, so in the future, just discard that stuff when you see it. What you’re buying is the overall experience anyway.
High-resolution:
The Retina display is one of the major improvements of the iPhone 4 design. With 960×640 pixels, it has a higher resolution than competitors (800×480) which is great because higher resolution directly impacts the usability of every text-based application (web, email, eBooks…), and the quality of video playback (details…). In practical terms, the Retina Display brings a slightly better user experience than 800×480 displays, especially when there is small text involved. The jump forward from the iPhone 3GS is simply gigantic, also because the 3GS was a little bit short in pixels.
Web browsing:
It’s not news that the iPhone does provide an excellent web browsing experience, but the high-resolution display does make it that much better. There is less zooming involved (if you have a good sight). And when you zoom, I like the fact that things don’t jump around like they do on Android: Android browsers tend to wrap the text around by default, which is not fundamentally bad, but it does make the page content move around, so it’s hard to choose a point to zoom towards. Other than that, the browsing experience on Android 2.x and on the iPhone 4 is both very good.
Features:
- Style:
- Screen Size: 3.5in
- Height: 115.2mm
- Width: 58.6mm
- Depth: 9.3mm
- Weight: 137kg
- Screen Resolution: 640x960
- Touchscreen: Yes
- Talk Time: 420m
- Standby Time: 300hr
- Internal Storage: 32GB
- Memory Slot: No
- Camera: 5 Megapixel
- Front Facing Camera: 0.6 Megapixel
- Video Camera: 720p @ 30fps
- Camera Flash: LED
- Coverage (Band): Quad
- Bluetooth: Yes
- Radio: No
- WiFi: Yes
- 3G: Yes
- Email: Yes
- 3.5mm Headphone Jack :Yes
- CPU :1GHz Apple A4
- App Store :App Store
- USB: No
- Physical Keyboard: No
- GPS: Yes
- Available Colours: Black
Warranty Information:
This handset is covered by a full 24 month manufacturer's warranty and 12 months buyers warranty from Discount-Mobiles.co.uk