Until today, iPhone fans have had to settle for images of a nonfunctional iPhone 4 prototype or peaks during the handset’s unveiling at the Worldwide Developers Conference. However, now comes both photos, videos and text from a Czech Republic website demonstrating the unit Apple plans to ship next week.
The Jablickarc.cz website includes photos of the iPhone 4, along with images created with the units 5-megapixel digital camera and video camera. The website’s user claimed the phone is fast, responsive and can take demands of heavy use with little impact on its battery life.
Finding a reliable GPS connection for the iPhone 4 was “surprisingly quick,” establishing a solid link “almost immediately,” according to the site’s user. Despite putting the handset through its paces for an hour, including surfing the web, playing games and watching videos, the iPhone 4’s battery dropped by just 10 percent.
Other details are leaking out about the iPhone 4 prior to its June 24 general availability. Thursday, we reported the iPhone 4 will have 512MB of memory, much more than previous iPhones, or even the iPad, which sports 256MB.
Additionally, Oppenheimer analyst Yair Reiner earlier this month said talks with suppliers prompted him to conclude the iPhone 4’s camera is “orders of magnitude more sophisticated than anything previously attempted in a smartphone.”
[via AppleInsider, 9to5Mac and Czech website]
Ed Sutherland is a veteran technology journalist who first heard of Apple when they grew on trees, Yahoo was run out of a Stanford dorm and Google was an unknown upstart. Since then, Sutherland has covered the whole technology landscape, concentrating on tracking the trends and figuring out the finances of large (and small) technology companies.
