Steve Jobs announced the new iPhone 4 at the WWDC keynote today in San Francisco. In addition to the next generation iPhone, the new operating system has been renamed from iPhone 4 OS to iOS 4 and was was demonstrated with new apps including Netflix for the iPhone, FarmVille, and Guitar Hero. Personally speaking, I won’t be using any of those apps. Well, maybe Netflix while waiting for a flight, but more than likely I’ll watch it on my iPad. The iPhone 4 camera is being updated to 5 megapixels and now includes a flash. The entire body will be 24% thinner and made entirely from stainless steel and glass. The screen will be of higher resolution and will be much shaper than previous generations. Lastly, one of the major surprises is that the iPhone 4 will include FaceTime, video conferencing using the iPhone calling functionality. The front-facing camera is designed especially for video calls and the technology is being released for developers to add FaceTime in 3rd party applications, such as IM clients.
More important with the iOS 4 are the new features that like true multi-tasking (including 3rd party apps) and folders for apps organization. Email is being updated which will allow you to view messages from all of your email accounts in a single, integrated inbox. Messages will be threaded (similar to Gmail and Google Apps mail).
Some very large and very exciting news for the iPhone/iPad community. The iOS 4 will be made available for iPads later this year and since the iPad release in April 2010 there have been 2,000,000 sold to date.
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