The iPhone 4, so many different emotions come to mind when you hear the name of that device no? The complaints of signal issues, proximity sensors, everything right? For me this is easily the best device I’ve ever owned.

I remember when the iPhone 3G came out, and Apple presented their commercial for it, and the words “The only phone to be the iPhone, the new iPhone..3G.” To me that’s the only true device that can beat the iPhone, the iPhone that follows it. You can call me a fanboy but when you get down to it, it’s true. Android is a very worthy competitor but you didn’t come hear to hear about that OS did you? Hit the jump for the full review!

Design:

Apple has completely redesigned the iPhone 4, and it’s either a love or hate it thing. My opinion? Love it. The phone feels more sturdy, and durable (same thing I loved about the original iPhone). The last two, 3G and 3GS, felt nice, but didn’t have that build, that “not so cheap” feel to it.

The iPhone 4 is now more rectangular, and not curved like modern Apple products, like the magic mouse. The back and front are both glass made from aluminosilicate glass, basically the glass that’s used in the windshields of helicopters, and high-speed trains. It’s strengthened to be 20 times stiffer, and 30 times harder than plastic. The glass is “more scratch resistant than ever”. I haven’t dropped it yet *knock on wood* so when I do, I’ll let you know how it did.

Display:

Probably one of the biggest, if not the biggest, and most noticeable change on the new iPhone 4 is the display. I am amazed at how clear and crisp the screen is. My guess for the new iPhone was that they were going to go to about 3.7’ – 4’ for their displays but that would only require developers to change graphics and proportions of their games/apps/etc..

I don’t think my camera can capture the beautiful display and the ppi (pixels per inch) but let me just say it’s amazing and take my word for it, ok?

Camera

The camera was upped from 3 megapixels on the 3GS to 5 megapixels and you can notice a difference. Now when we talk about cameras, people automatically want better pixels, but as Steve made very clear through the regular presentations we always get, megapixels doesn’t determine the quality of the camera but other things such as photons, lighting, even with this iPhone having 5 megapixels, it still takes better picture than a Droid X which has a 8 megapixel camera.

The camera also brought forth 720p HD video recording. The quality is amazing. It’s going to take some getting used to, but it is amazing. Plus with the built in LED flash on the back, pictures and HD video recording is a walk in the park for the iPhone 4.

Battery Life

Quite simply the biggest reason for me to upgrade to the iPhone 4 from a 3GS was the battery life. Apple tried to make the 3GS sound like a powerhouse and while it was a big upgrade from the 3G or original iPhone the battery life was simply a no-go I honestly couldn’t get more than 6 hours of using it, let alone 7-8 of standby.

With the iPhone 4 I can easily last the whole day on one charge doing way more than I could on my 3GS, and I think that easily has to do with the A4 chip inside the device, which maximizes performance while not affecting the battery life too much.

Operating System: iOS 4

A lovely upgrade to the newly branded iPhone OS operating system, Apple has done some major revisions to this huge upgrade for the iPhone. It’s brought forth multitasking, home screen wallpapers, spell check, new widgets, and high quality, glossy-like icons, plus MUCH MUCH MUCH more.

To make it short and simple, it’s easily the most advanced Operating System in the mobile world.

FaceTime

Now to most, it’s nothing new, that’s basically to anyone living in the Europe/Asia, or tech bloggers. We’ve known that video calling has been alive for a while now but no one has brought it to the table quit like Apple has, with the simple, easy to get to UI, I mean what’s not to appreciate about it?

Sure, you have to have an iPhone 4 to use and be on Wi-Fi, but do this before you complain, download Fring! From the App Store and try a video call and lemme know how well that works out for you. Now imagine all 3.4 million iPhone 4 using FaceTime over 3G and how much that would strain AT&T’s network, or any network for that matter! Plus being on Wi-Fi brings crisp, and clear video calling, and come to think in this day and age where is there not free Wi-Fi?

Stainless Steel Band/Antennagate

Now who doesn’t have a video up about the bad reception problems? Gizmodo has one, nearly all iPhone youtubers, as for me? I can produce the problem but I have yet to have it affect one of my calls or data, I do have a bumper on it, but even without it I don’t have an issue.

People get mad because you have to put a case on it, but I mean why wouldn’t you want a case on a phone you spent $200-$500 on? I always have cases on my iPhone, so that problem never affected me but apparently for some it’s like the world ending, put a case on and shut up.

Summary

To sum my review up, I simply love the phone, the build quality is awesome along with the retina display simply makes it awesome hardware wise, then you get iOS 4 which is the other component to this phone and that’s just like the perfect tag team partner in this wrestling match. I don’t think a phone will be able to match it hardware wise, sure the Droid X is there, but the iPhone still succeeds to me in everything. If your hesitant to buy this phone, don’t, buy it!

For any questions/comments/whatever you can tweet me on twitter @iRockish

Is your iPhone 3G on the latest and greatest OS by Apple? iOS 4? Too bad it’s slow right? Well according to an Apple spokesperson told WSJ that they are looking into the problem that’s plaguing the phone.

The most common criticism is that the phone is slow after an upgrade. There are also many complaints that the phone drains the battery quickly and becomes excessively hot. Concern about general problems such as slowness and battery life on gadgets isn’t unusual, but using iOS 4 on the iPhone 3G seems to make the problems so bad that the phone is nearly unusable for some people.

Maybe a special iOS 4.0.2 specifically for iPhone 3G users or maybe all their problems will be fixed with iOS 4.1 all together.

If you need help downgrading you can always tweet me for help on Twitter @iRockish

Like we need any more proof, right? Even so, the more confirmation the better we say, and one of our Apple guys has sent us in some shots of the field test firmware for the new iPhone HD (or whatever it is), and we’ve got them right here for you. They are pretty self explanatory.

There’s one more screenshot after the jump!

Let me know what you think about this! Tweet me @iRockish or tweet the main account! @JailbreakNews

In the first picture it seems that the white iPhone face plate hasn’t been fully snapped in. Rumors are that they attempted to put the black plate on their but it didn’t fully snap in/match up. Different size iPhones? You be the judge.

Are Google taking the piss? I hope you have some good WWDC announcements to blow them out of the water?

F*** the google android team

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Here’s the pic of the email:

The silkscreen on the production A4 reads:
* APL0398 339S0084 YNL215X0
* K4X2G643GE N26CGM0T

The leaked prototype has these markings:
* APL0398 339S0084 YNE07423
* K4X2G643GE GSA1400A

The two numbers that are different are likely manufacturing numbers (each lot of chips is stamped with a unique number to track them through the supply chain). The important numbers are:

* APL0398 339S0084 * K4X2G643GE

Hit the jump for my POV!

I’m not too sure if I like the new design of the new iPhone, I mean hell yeah new design but there’s certain things I wanted for a new design but I guess you can’t make all 85+ million customers of iPhones + iPod touches happy now can we Apple?

What do you think? Drop us a comment or Tweet me on Twitter

MacRumors has said that both look identical but two differences, the newly leaked devices indicates “16GB” of storage and Gizmodo’s pride and joy indicated “XXGB”, and there are now screws on the bottom of this device.

Also this unit is apparently turned on with “Inferno!” on the screen, and text indicating that the battery has 24% left. Rumors are that this is part of “firmware diagnostics” that MacRumors has seen before, but called “Bonfire!”

Hit the jump for some more pictures and a video!

and now the video!

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This morning they received a report from a reader:

“Not sure if anyone [..] has noticed this same thing, but my Upgrade Eligibility date on my AT&T account switched from 11/21 to 6/21 in the last day or so. I bought a 3GS on launch day last year, and my upgrade date read 11/21 since then. A few other folks in my office have noticed the same changes happening to their accounts as well.”

It’s unclear right now if this is intentional or something that AT&T were hoping users wouldn’t notice, but either way I’m excited!

These images are reportedly from a trustworthy source who receives components directly from Chinese factories, you know since everything in U.S. is from China.

The front frame adds a hole for a front facing camera. The LCD connector is a different position suggesting a substantial redesign. The connector is larger providing an increase in the number of connections to the motherboard which indicates a higher resolution display.

The glass looks identical to the 3G will only change the disposition of the connector, this suggests that there will be substantial revolution in appearance or in touchscreen technology. While the LCD is radically different compared to 3G. The connector is bigger and this suggests an increase in the number of connections to the motherboard (short PIN) as a result there will be a clearer definition superior to its predecessors.

What do you guys think about a higher resolution display on the iPhone? I’m all for higher resolution and HD video. I can’t wait till June.