So, so sexy.
My iPhone 4 arrived at 11:45am on the 23rd. I’ve been playing with it so much that I fear I may be going blind and developing hairy palms.
SO… how is it? AMAZING. Seriously, the screen alone is worth the price of the upgrade. The marketing hype behind the Retina Display actually doesn’t do the Retina Display justice. It’s just that damned clear.
If that’s not enough, throw in the new camera. The pictures this thing takes are clearer and bigger than digital cameras that cost $50 more than the subsidized price of a 32GB iPhone. The video looks great when still, but it doesn’t handle panning or tilting very well – yet still better than the Flip HD. iMovie for the iPhone is absolutely worth $5, but it suffers from 1.0 versionhood; there are only 5 themes and applying a theme’s title to a clip lasts for the entire duration of the clip, which seems odd.
The A4 chip really screams, and actually blows the 3GS away at most everything. The new multitasking features of iOS4 really shine on the new hardware.
There are, of course, a lot of stories going around about the antenna and reception issues. These problems are NOT unique to the iPhone 4. Placing your hand over the cellular antenna causes signal to degrade on not only all generations of iPhones, but other phones such as the Nexus One as well. I’m reasonably certain that if Gizmodo hadn’t jumped on this bogus story, hardly anyone would have ever noticed it.
If anything, I’ve noticed significantly better reception with the iPhone 4 in low-signal areas (like where I live) than with the 3GS.
WiFi now uses 802.11n, which means I can stream movies from AirVideo even faster. The iPhone 4 also has nearly twice the speed of the 3GS during a USB sync; I moved 28GB of music, apps, and photos to my iPhone 4 in under 45 minutes. On the 3GS, it’s closer to an hour and a half.
All in all, I’m definitely pleased with my purchase.
