Monthly Archives: June 2010

Trevor has put his thoughts of the new iPhone 4 on 247 and he seems more than impressed-

I queued for more than eight hours yesterday, but it was worth the wait.

The screen is just beautiful. Text looks extraordinary. It’s hard to explain, but the screen just seems to disappear as if there is absolutely nothing between you and the words you are reading. Photos and videos just pop.

Call clarity is orders of magnitude better than on my iPhone 3GS. Everything is louder and clearer.

No one has been able to fully match the speed, fluidity and consistency of the iPhone user interface, and the iPhone 4 simply kicks it up another notch. It’s breathtakingly fast and smooth.

Low light photos are great and I’ve been impressed with flash photos, too.  I think this camera can replace a point and shoot with ease. Goodbye Flip, too.

Battery life is looking very good. Yesterday I used the phone intensively for more than two hours straight including surfing, video, 15 minutes chatting on the phone, and a couple of FaceTime calls. Battery went from 100% to 80%. In normal use, I reckon there’s more than enough juice to get through the day with room to spare.

I love the look and feel of the new industrial design. My old iPhone 3GS feels bulky in comparison. Build quality is exceptional.

FaceTime is so easy to use and so seamlessly integrated with the phone it’s not even funny. Video calling may not be new, but I think the iPhone is going to take it mainstream.

I agree with Gavin – the iPod has much richer and deeper sound than previously. Surprising.

The overall performance of the device combined with multitasking provides an unprecedented flow to everything that I do. It doesn’t get much better than this.

I will miss my old 3GS which, despite being a year old, was still right at the top of the smartphone heap. But then my new iPhone 4 is in a class of its own.

And then Gavin popped up with more-

I have now had the iPhone 4 for just over 24 hours. And what a difference it has made already despite the fact I haven’t been able to make any calls as my number won’t be ported until 4pm on Monday.

However, I have synced my films, music and iPod Touch apps across and with the wifi connection been online trying everything from email, web, You Tube and more. What is bizarre is I am having to use my HTC HD2 until Monday and therefore it is easy to compare. Obviously 2 different operating systems, and despite the fact the HD2 is a great phone, the iPhone 4 trounces it is so many ways. The iPhone 4 touch screen typing is the best. Unbelievably the HD2 doesn’t even come close. Then there is the fluidity and speed. Everything just works. No tweaks needed. The HD2 is larger, heavier, larger screen but now it doesn’t look or feel right. Apple’s ios4 really shows how backward Windows Mobile 6.5.5 is!  Now I don’t want a war on bashing operating systems. The HD2 does have some useful spec eg 4.3 inch screen, wifi router and highly tweakable. But all those specs in my opinion doesn’t produce a better phone. I was thinking about my time with the HTC Hero and other Android phones. They are good too, but have an uncontrolled infrastructure ie. different hardware but it does so the most promise. Web os will it survive. Could evolve into something amazing. Anyway back to my iPhone 4.

The screen. The more I use it the more I realise how incredible looking and using the screen is. Writing, viewing anything. The camera. Totally way way above my expectations. Goto my Flickr photo stream, the Dartmoor 3 photos with iP4 next to were all taken on the phone. Make sure you go large to see the detail. My Flickr is www.Flickr.com/photos/gavinfabl100 . I repeat it’s worth checking out the quality.  The audio. How good is good. Well my headphones suddenly started resonating at levels not heard before. Deeper and tighter bass, mid range clarity and superb treble. Very impressive.

And then there is the apps. Endless. Moving between apps is fast and fluid. It’s worth seeing for yourself in an Apple store. The other sweet spot is using the sd reader and copying photos from the iPhone to the iPad . Gotta say this works a treat.  Does anyone know what app you can use to transfer other types of docs? Facetime. Can we get a list of numbers, names to do this. It’s about time we got to see you!

And then Mark popped up with some differing views-

I have just bought the iPhone4 and am seriously thinking of returning it for the Galaxy S. I ALMOST  bought the Galaxy S anyway, but this new problem with the iPhone4′s phone reception has spoiled the aura for me about the “good design” of the iPhone4. Now it feels like style over content. There are some very good points about the iPhone, a smoother interface than Galaxy S, but that does not equal the plethora of features where Galaxy S surpasses iPhone:

you cannot play divx xvid mpeg4 wmv, and apple does not support adobe flash!
you cannot play flac or ape uncompressed audio files you cannot have home screens filled with active widgets you cannot drag and drop music to and from device you cannot use any old usb cable to charge the phone and have to use itunes and quicktime to sync you cannot have a spare battery you cannot put your HD videos you shoot on a SERIES of external memory sticks (when you go on holiday, for example). Hmmm. Mark.

That’s it for now- no more iPhone 4 reviews and first impressions for a few days. It is looking like it is a winner in most people’s eyes so far.