iPhone 4G impression
I’m pretty late to the party, but the iPhone 4G has officially been announce. It offers many upgrades over the previous generation of iPhone, as well as advantages over the competition. It’s alredy been posted numerous times each and every feature, so I’m not going to reiterate each of them.
Here’s is what I like:
- That screen is beautiful. It packs four times the pixels as the previous iPhone, and has the highest resolution of any mobile device in existence.
- That slim, shiny case with chrome edges, both stylish and practical. Supposedly the edge is a new, revolutionary anntena that boosts signal for wifi, gps, and cellular data. The glass exterior looks like clear crystal and is more durable than plastic.
Besides the hardware improvements iOS4 offers some significant software improvements that any iPhone 3G/3GS and iTouch 3G user will also be able to take advantage of:
- Multitasking… finally!
- App Folders
I didn’t mention FaceTime, the video chat feature, on purpose. It just doesn’t really excite me. They built it on an open-standard, but one that no one else is using. Why not Skype? Implementation aside, video chat has never taken off because nobody wants to use it. Then again, who knows, maybe the iPhone is what VideoChat needs to be taken on by the masses.