iPhone 4 will be winging its way to the UK soon but a clutch of lucky commentators got their hands on the new iPhone straight after Steve Jobs revealed it last night. We’ve rounded up the best of their iPhone 4 first impressions. Head on through for our iPhone 4 first impressions round-up…
While Gizmodo didn’t get an iPhone 4 launch invite after the iPhone 4 leak, Engadget got its mitts on the new iPhone and its gadget lust was evident. Its crush on the iPhone 3GS is well and truly over:
“We’ll hand it to Apple the phone is so thin it’s kind of mind-boggling. The 3GS by comparison looks bloated…the screen is truly outrageous – you basically cannot see pixels on it. We’re not being hyperbolic when we say it’s easily the best looking mobile screen we’ve ever laid eyes on.”
Meanwhile, the more sedate folk over at Forbes were a little less effusive. After his iPhone 4 hands-on, Brian Caulfield reported: “It feels solid. Also: the screen resolution makes it very easy to read. Other than that, it works like an iPhone.”
For Laptop, it was all about the new build and the white iPhone 4 but it also seems we’ll all be packing cleaning cloths as standard – iPhone 4 is a smudge magnet:
“The glass front and back surfaces feel great, although we noticed plenty of fingerprints after I and other journalists had spent just a few minutes playing with it. We especially dig the all-white version, which looks totally unlike the last white iPhone…or really any other phone on the market.”
The FT was most taken with iPhone 4’s speediness: “Running the new iOS 4.0 software and with an A4 Apple processor inside, response times seemed markedly faster than its predecessor.” Will nippier performance lure you to upgrade your iPhone 3GS?
For The Huffington Post, Larry Magid says: “It’s clear to me that Apple has once again raised the bar.” But he avoids getting too hyperbolic: “I’m impressed but I’m not overwhelmed but in a way that’s the way it should be. Technology evolves and the iPhone 4 is clearly a good move forward.”
Meanwhile, obsessive tech blogger The Scobleizer (aka Robert Scoble) films virtually everything he does so his effusive praise for iPhone 4’s improved video skills compared to the HTC Evo are worth listening to:
“The video features are FAR superior on the iPhone, especially the new editing features. I will buy the iPhone for these features alone, so for a video geek like me these are a huge deal.”
Finally, John Gruber of Daring Fireball (possibly the most analytical of all Apple commentators) has a meticulous break down of his hands-on time with iPhone 4. As well as revealing that the stainless steel frame is down to Apple’s metal of choice, aluminum, being useless for antennas, he offers up even more praise for the iPhone 4 screen:
“…the pixels appear to be painted on the surface of the phone; instead of looking at pixels under glass, it is like looking at pixels on glass. Combined with the incredibly high pixel density, the overall effect is like ‘live print’.”
Let us know what your first impressions of iPhone 4 are. What features are you most excited about? And has Apple missed anything major that you were hoping for?
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