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hi I'm Kate German senior editor here at singer calm to day Rex a first look at the Apple iPhone 4 this of course is Apple's newest iPhone has a lot of new features has a redesign first we're gonna take it out of box though just pop it off the top there Daniel oh there it is so from the start you see this is a very different iPhone and design take it off the lid there and inside you have of course a small instruction sheet you get the small wall plug that we've seen a normal USB cable and the standard iPhone earbuds so pretty standard as far as the box goes now with the iPhone 3G and 3GS merely were tweaks of that original iPhones design this is a lot different it's flat on both the front and the back so the nice thing is is it doesn't wall but when you put it on the table anymore when you pair at the iPhone 3G that we have here you'll see that it is a bit thinner it's actually a 25% thinner yeah Apple says this is a thinnest smartphone around that certainly may be true for now but you know the thin iPhone the thin smartphone race changes constantly so I don't think we'll hold that title for long it does have glass on the front and on the back I do notice at the back in particular attracts a lot of smudges and fingerprints that we didn't see on the previous phone so you want to watch that you see a metal band and circling the entire phone it actually is a new antenna as well you do see a couple of notches on the top on the side but it's Apple didn't say that this would improve call quality they didn't actually promise that perhaps this redesign is an effort to make those things better some of the other changes you'll see is there's a new poise cancellation microphone here right on the top that's next to the 3.5 mm headset jack and the power switch here on the side the SIM tray which used to be on the top is moved to the side of course that is a micro SIM slot the volume rocker has been redesigned it's now split volume buttons a small change but I like it actually the silence button has been revamped just a little bit about you to barely notice it and down here on the bottom you see that the same 30 pin connector Jack the speaker and the microphone and of course the home button is completely the same the phone is four point eight ounces so it actually is the same way as the original iPhone the iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS were just a little bit lighter you don't really notice it it definitely is smaller though and I notice that immediately taken out of the box it is a bit narrow and measured across the front face and I already told you that it is thinner I do think that when I look at it alone it certainly looks small and of course you particularly notice it when you put the phone by side couple other changes in design you see that there's a camera right here that is a VGA camera you can use that for self-portraits or for the FaceTime video calling feature it is five megapixel it also records HD video the iPhone 4s and the first handset to offer this feature but it certainly works well we recorded some quick videos and they looked really great there's still no white balance or brightness or color tones or anything like that but I used to seen that from Apple but never really taken the camera and add a lot of customization with it but I think what these updated certainly makes a camera pretty good along with the new camera you will know a couple tweaks to the interface there is the control for the flash you also see a small control for switching between the front and rear cameras so everything is really accessible in front so it's pretty cool the FaceTime feature is Apple's new video calling feature it isn't new Apple certainly makes it look really nice from what I've seen in demos we have seen it look pretty good I can't show you here right now because we actually don't have I - iPhone 4s at the moment getting one very soon though so well add an extra video how-to of what the FaceTime looks like also we need to talk about that display of course this is Apple's Retina display and the reason they call that is they think they say that its resolution is beyond what's perceivable by the human eye there's been some debate about whether that's really true but I can say that the display is absolutely stunning you can't see any pixels at all colors are fantastic text looks great websites photos videos everything I was looking at was really really great when you put it next to you really need to get zoom in to see it but you do see a definite difference there Apple certainly stepped up the display and made something that's really competitive so it's glad to see that the iPhone 4 does have a new processor and from the start I can tell you that it was completely faster doing anything opening apps going between menus especially that camera shutter actually that was really really quick but this phone is certainly faster than what we've seen before as I said the iPhone 4 does have a bigger battery of course we haven't haven't done a full battery drain yet but in just in the brief testing I've done it seems like it's doing it well with the multitasking and we saw with iOS 4 there of course is the concern that that will put a drain on the battery faster I the way Apple design multitasking they say that that it's not gonna do that and I haven't found anything yet but it's always nice to see a bigger battery so certainly welcome those of course the feature wise the iPhone 4 brings a lot of things and with the added iOS for idiot brings even more I won't get into the iOS for changes here but if you want to learn more about the iOS 4 changes I did a first look at the iowa's 4 so you can check that out on the whole this is the biggest upgrade to the iPhone since the iPhone 3G I think we've took them independently if you took the iPhone 4 you took the iOS 4 you took those independently they'd be great but you need to add them together you really come with a compelling sleek and really nice device of course there are so many great smartphones out there so not gonna say that it's the best cuz you to do that to do that would really ignore so many smartphones and how fast the technology world develops if you're an iPhone fan and if you like what Apple has designed as a smartphone experience this is a great phone I'm Kent Sherman and this is the Apple iPhone 4