We’re not sure just why pictures of the iPhone 4 dragged over 1 million people to the Gizmodo web site, but they did, and guess what, it looks just like an iPhone. Everyone is pretty much agreed that the pictures were genuine, because people that should know better have confirmed it to other newspapers. Gizmodo paid the person who found the iPhone 4 in a bar $5,000 for the device and will now return it to Apple after requests arrived from Steve Jobs office saying, ‘Hey you’ve got something of ours.’
Basically the device has some minor outward changes, new buttons, a slightly more bevelled edge, and internally it has the new OS version loaded, and not much else different. The battery is about 16% larger, and it will have a 5 megapixel camera, but so has virtually every smart phone. It will also have a second, front-facing camera for video conversations. Like the iPad, it will use a microSIM which is unique to Apple so regular SIMs cannot be inserted.
The display is beefed up to 960 x 640 pixels, though slightly smaller than the 3GS’s, and there is a secondary microphone for noise cancellation. In contrast to the 3GS, the phone will have a completely flat back and an aluminium border and will be three grams heavier. Internal components have had to be somewhat miniaturized to make room for the larger battery, says Gizmodo which examined the device.