The Apple iPhone 4 is definitely a smartphone experience to remember. Not having used any Apple products before, I decided to take the plunge by getting one last November 2010, just 5 months after its release in June 2010. I was keen to see if the iPhone 4 really delivers on exceeding the usual expectations on what a smartphone can do.
Upon opening the box, you would be greeted with a 3.5 inch touchscreen phone weighing 137 grams. It is shaped in a rectangular slate bar with a frame of stainless steel. This is quite a marked change from the curved rounded back of the earlier iPhone 3GS. Typical of Apple's clean design that is also found on its MacBooks, there are very few buttons found on its exterior. There are 2 volume buttons, a silent mode switch, a lock screen button and a home menu button. The feel of holding the stainless steel frame is pretty satisfying, and it is interesting to know that this is actually the antenna of the iPhone 4 as well.
Now comes the best part of actually turning on the iPhone 4. The multi-touch screen is very slick, quick, and responsive thanks to the power of its Apple A4 processor running at 1GHz with 512MB eDRAM. In fact, the smoothness of its touchscreen is still what sets the Apple iPhone 4 apart from other smartphone rivals.
The killer feature of the iPhone 4 is the Retina Display, which features the highest resolution of 326 pixels per inch on its little screen. This works out to a 960 by 640 resolution. At the time of this writing in October 2011, this record still remains unbeaten across all smartphones and tablets. Apple has succeeded in creating a display do pleasing to the eye that the human retina can no longer distinguish any pixels just by looking at the screen. This is what makes any viewing of text, photos, videos, web pages, games, and graphics such a pleasant experience that is not found elsewhere.
The iPhone 4 has also been beefed up over its predecessors with a 5 megapixel camera that is capable of shooting video in HD 720p at 30 fps. Although this is not the highest specs that exists today, it is still a joy to use the camera for both photos and videos due to the smoothness and slickness of Apple's interface, which allows quick sharing via emails and messages at a very decent image quality as well.
Packing the usual smartphone features of Wi-Fi, 3.5G and Bluetooth connectivity, its motion-sensing features enabled by its gyroscope and accelerometer provide the iPhone 4 a superior edge, particularly in allowing many more apps to be written and made available via its App Store. To date, there are already over 500,000 apps available in the Apple App Store, which makes the iPhone 4 the reigning king of apps, way ahead of Android at only about 230,000 apps.
The iPhone 4 also has its strength in the audio department, since it is essentially an iPod Touch with phone functions added in. Although its speakers sound a little weak on their own and the included earphones are not that impressive, but attach it to docks or any other premium headphones such as Beats and you would hear the difference compared to many other smartphones and MP3 players out there.
Available in black and white colours, the flash storage space options of 16GB and 32GB are still a little small, since there is no card slot for extra memory storage. Apple has also ensured the iPhone 4 is compatible with the newly-released iOS 5, which also enables new features such as iCloud for cloud storage, and iMessage for free messaging among all Apple devices.
The future looks great for the iPhone 4 and despite newer models being released such as the iPhone 4S, I am sure to keep the iPhone 4 running for quite a while, since it is the most complete smartphone experience packing in sheer ease of use and convenience all into one small handheld device.
Now that the iPhone 4S has been released, many UK networks are offering great reductions on their iPhone 4 tariffs, so if you want to get your hands on one, there has never been a better time.
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