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CNET Top 5 reasons to get an iPhone 4

2010-06-23
if you're like millions of other lemming people your only question about the iPhone 4 at this point is white or black I'm Brian Cooley with another see net top 5 let's head for the cliff and find out the top 5 reasons you just got a rush out and buy an iPhone 4 even if it means choosing between heating your home or feeding your children number 5 better antennas ok this one sounds really boring but what cell phones do is really magic a tiny battery-powered radio in the palm of your hand that can do voice calls emails texts load web pages stream media to video calls and all that while talking to a tower up to several miles away the iPhone fours antennas are now right around the outside edge but without being one of those goofy external jobbies we had in the 90s and the iPhones antennas might now even function as a hand warmer but that wouldn't be good number four two cameras the main one on the back is now 5 megapixels and there's a tiny new one on the front for video calling it shows you to the person on the other end while you see them on your screen an apples FaceTime app promises to make the whole process easy and pretty now you've got to have an iPhone 4 on both ends of the call and it's not like we need another technology to enable self-absorption but you know this one's a huge crowd-pleaser number 3 multitasking ok consumers don't walk in the cell phone stores with multitasking on their lips but they do ask for fast and powerful and multitasking does that and lets the iPhone 4 now truly do multiple things at once and that always feels fast like with the two cameras Apple's actually playing a bit of catch-up in this area but when Apple plays catch-up everyone calls it innovation number 2 HD video and how the iPhone 4 can not only shoot 720p HD video it can also edit in phone with a mini version of iMovie and upload directly to YouTube Mobile me send via MMS or email this sort of thing is really Apple's strong suit but even if they made a hash of it wouldn't you love to have a phone that means you can stop carrying a flip video camera with that goofy little USB thing that sticks out before we get to number one pricing iPhone 4 is going to be either 2 or $300 with a new contract or a reappear it's for your blood don't forget the 3GS remains on the market for just under a hundred bucks now our number one reason why you just gotta have an iPhone 4 the Retina display this whole business about 326 pixel per inch resolution via an IPS transistor matrix or may sound like the kind of stuff geeks bout to compensate but let's put it this way it'll look like ink not dots got it yeah the one feature you always use on a smartphone is the display and it's also the first thing that Wow's somebody's sitting next to you at the bar so yeah retina is gonna pay dividends like BP did before the Gulf that's it for this edition of top 5 folks look at your iPhone 4 and shoot and edit and upload a better version of this show and then send me the link I'm Brian Cooley I'll see you next time you
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