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June 7, 2010

THE COMING: iPhone 4 is Finally Here

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 THE COMING: iPhone 4 is Finally Here

John Q. Public has been impatiently waiting for the announcement of the newest iPhone since the Internet was sent into a frenzy after a drunk employee mishaply lost a prototype of the Apple gadget last month. Well, it’s finally here. Apple’s CEO and king of hyperbole Steve Jobs took to the stage and finally unveiled the newest iPhone this morning at a developer’s conference in California. We took to Twitter to report on the day’s exciting developments.

Here’s a video of the iPhone 4 and it’s features.

1:34pm, Jun 07 from HootSuite

Steve Jobs: “We’re introducing iPhone 4.”

1:33pm, Jun 07 from HootSuite

Steve Jobs: “[The iPhone 4] is 24% thinner than the iPhone 3GS.”

1:34pm, Jun 07 from HootSuite

Steve Jobs: “As a matter of fact, it is the thinnest smartphone on the planet.”

1:37pm, Jun 07 from HootSuite

Steve Jobs: “It’s the thinnest smartphone ever. Stainless steel, glass on the front and back. Extraordinary build quality.”

1:38pm, Jun 07 from HootSuite

Steve Jobs: “We dramtically increased the pixel density, Four times the amount.” #iphone4

1:45pm, Jun 07 from HootSuite

RT @YoungPharoh: Steve Job is having an iPhone network fail….Somebody yelled Verizon. Ha!

1:50pm, Jun 07 from HootSuite

iPhone 4 stats: A4 processor. battery- 7 hrs of 3G talk, 6 hrs of 3G browsing, 10 hrs of WiFi browsing, 10 hrs of video, 40 hrs of music…”

1:52pm, Jun 07 from HootSuite

Steve Jobs: “we have another new piece of hardware. We’re adding a gyroscope.” #iphone4

1:58pm, Jun 07 from HootSuite

iMovie for iPhone! #iPhone4

1:59pm, Jun 07 from HootSuite

Built in video editing and HD video recording

2:08pm, Jun 07 from HootSuite

so the iPhone OS 4 has just been renamed to iOS4…big whoopie.

2:18pm, Jun 07 from HootSuite

Steve Jobs: “iBooks. We are bringing it to the iPhone with the iPhone 4.”

2:34pm, Jun 07 from HootSuite

iPhone now has mobile video conferencing! Skype that.

2:36pm, Jun 07 from HootSuite

Video call bad news: WiFi only. Only iPhone 4 to iPhone 4.

2:39pm, Jun 07 from HootSuite

Okay, so everybody needs to get an iphone 4 so I can video conference you….I think the Skype app will make Iphone to Skype possible soon

2:41pm, Jun 07 from HootSuite

Steve Jobs: “Pricing — there’s two colors. White and black. Pricing — $199 for 16GB, $299 for 32GB.”

2:43pm, Jun 07 from HootSuite

iPhone 4 will be available June 24th

2:45pm, Jun 07 from HootSuite

AT&T customers: If your contract expires at any time in 2010, you can upgrade to the iPhone 4. You can get it up to six months early.

3:14pm, Jun 07 from HootSuite

RT @funnyordie The video chat on the new iPhone will revolutionize accidentally pocket dialing friends. Now they can see inside your pockets

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 THE COMING: iPhone 4 is Finally Here



About the Author

Pharoh Martin
Pharoh Martin
Pharoh Martin is the founding editor of Thesmugger.com. He lives in DC and is really too busy to keep up a blog but he tries anyway. As a journalist/ editor he's interviewed a bunch of people that somebody may find interesting and covered everything from politics and social issues to music and lifestyle subjects, not that you would care. He does wants you to know that he has been published in the Washington Post, Vibe, GIANT, XXL, TheRoot.com, Newsone.com and Allhiphop.com, among many other places in hopes that you wouldn't refer to him as a blogger.