iPhone Cruncher

The iPhone is still on the loose today. More and more buyers re getting crazy over buying the new iphone. But before evrything else, Apple has already promised its Iphone to be more thinner and a sharper display.

Apple today announced its fourth-generation smart phone, the iPhone 4, with virtually all of the expected improvements plus a few surprises.

The leading surprise was made in addition of  a  built-in gyroscope that responds to movement along six axes of motion, and promises to enable new kinds of video games—including a stacking puzzle that Apple boss Steve Jobs demonstrated during his presentation.

The iPhone 4 will be available June 24 for $299 and $199 for its 32 GB and 16 GB models, respectively, with pre-orders beginning on June 15. It will be the thinnest smart phone on the market, at just 9.3mm thick—or 24 percent thinner than its predecessor, the 3G S.

These enhancements include the expected ability to multitask; Jobs demonstrated how iPhone users will, for the first time, be able to check e-mail, view Web pages, and stream music at the same time. And they’ll also be able to view e-mails from multiple accounts, and open PDF files by using the iBooks app now available for the iPad, a version of which is being added for iPhone.

You’ll also be able to use more search engines on your iPhone. In addition to Google, iOS4 will add native support for Yahoo! and Microsoft’s Bing.

iPhone has been behind many of its competitors in terms of pixel density, which generally equates to sharpness.In a side-by-side demo with 3 GS, pictures and text indeed appeared much sharper on the iPhone 4, yet they also appeared to be a bit darker. We’ll just have to wait to test the new phone in our labs. iPhone 4 also upgrades the current 3-megapixel camera to a 5-megapixel one, and claims a better, backside-illuminated sensor, too. And, in a game of catch up with other cameras, has added an LED flash that stays on for video recording.

ITaking it’s a cue from HTC’s Evo, iPhone 4 has a front-facing camera to facilitate video conferencing. The feature, called FaceTime, is free but will only work over a WiFi connection in 2010. However, at today’s demonstration between Steve Jobs and someone else, the transmission appeared to stall several times.

In spite of the demands of multitasking, which typically boosts power consumption, Apple claims to have improved battery life on the iPhone 4. Each charge, it says, will allow the device to run for 7 hours of 3G talk, 6 hours of 3G browsing, 10 hours of WiFi browsing, 10 hours of video, or 40 hours of music.

iPhone 4 has a flat, glass back, two buttons on the side for volume control, and a second microphone on the bottom, to allow for noise cancellation. Its stainless-steel trim also acts as an antenna.

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