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what's up everyone John render from TechnoBuffalo here is my official review for you of the iPhone 4 I wanted to wait a couple weeks to get a sense of the pros and cons with the device I think I've got a better sense of how it works so sit back relax and enjoy the video ok so let's start at the top of what matters most this is a phone it's got to make good phone calls and I will say that the call quality and the fidelity of the signal is drastically improved of the outgoing iPhone the 3GS and certainly the 3G that preceded it now I know what you're thinking John what about the death grip or if those you that might not know it's one of the things that makes the iPhone have the improve signal strength is its new fangled antenna look at say the left side of the device this whole stainless steel band is actually an antenna and that little gap right there is what's causing all this trouble if you bridge that gap the piece of your finger or some part of your hand you are going to experience a signal drop and eventually a no signal sign which it could be a bit of a problem I demonstrated this on video so if you hold the phone for example with your left hand and your palm is sitting that little area you're not going to see your bar start to drop down it's a real legitimate concern and I did have that problem till I realized what you need to be done and I'll just change the way that I held my phone and certainly I know that you should have to I know this probably isn't unique to just the iPhone but if you are an iPhone 4 user it's going to become a reality of how you deal with your device and there's going to have to hold it differently or put a case on it which will fix the problem altogether now Apple has said this is just a software issue and will be fixed an upcoming update although as of this filming we have not seen that update yet and it is still most definitely a problem so if you change where you hold your phone you're going to notice very clear call quality few drop calls which is certainly something I was very happy about over the outgoing 3GS my experience many drop calls and that seems to have been fixed whether that's the iPhone 4 or 18 t improving their infrastructure really yet to be seen let's go ahead and jump on to some of the new features that's found in the iPhone 4 let's start with what you look at all the time the 3.5 inch multi such Retina display and retina displays a fancy way to say a really high res screen because the resolution of 960 by 640 pixel resolution which is the highest resolution phone on the market and it really comes into play looking at a website for example text looks crystal clear if you zoom all the way in you don't see any sort of pixelation almost looks like you're looking at ink which is really really a handy feature if you a lot of reading on your phone it also makes pictures pop and video look a bit more vibrant one of the things I've really really enjoyed about the iPhone 4 if you want to see any more about these features be sure to check out the YouTube channel I go into detail about the Retina display and the rest of the things that I'm going to talk about all right so next let's talk about cameras and we got to start with the top about this guy right here the front-facing VGA camera which is really tied into Apple's video chatting software called FaceTime which I gotta say is incredibly cool it works very very very well although it is only over Wi-Fi but if you have a strong Wi-Fi same time first your calling is a strong Wi-Fi signal it works very well and again I have a video demonstrating sort of how this works I mean the things that's not really being mentioned is it's also an awesome free voice over IP client when you use FaceTime it does not deduct from your minutes I actually got a phone call from a friend in the UK and we talked on FaceTime for about 25 minutes on our cell phones just below your at home I were able to talk to each other and see each other so this does work internationally and it won't take any of your data or minutes because you're going to be over Wi-Fi the video quality is fantastic Galia fidelity is surprisingly good and it just works very well something that sort of makes a fun extra feature so talking about cameras as well on the back we've got a new 5 megapixel sensor with an LED flash now a lot of cameras on the market have higher sense all sensors don't necessarily let the megapixel count flew into thinking this is going to be a lower quality camera the camera is actually very good take pictures that are definitely comparable to other 8 megapixel sensors on there and again I have videos comparing camera quality here to other 8 megapixel devices but the camera quality is really good and drastically improved over the 3G s and I'm not going to go through and talk about necessarily iOS for particular points however just say that iOS 4 doesn't work very well on device handles multitasking very well and it doesn't really have any sort of slow down and make people have seen with iOS 4 on other legacy devices so next let's move on to battery life as you can probably guess I am a heavy heavy phone user I'm on the phone all the time I'm doing emails internet and battery life has been a problem for me I could generally get through just about one day with my iPhone 3GS I'm not talking about the quotes that numbers at Apple is putting out for battery life this is a real-world usage so clicked it to Wi-Fi most of the day brighten is set up to about 75% emails being pushed in a very constant web browsing on the 3GS like I said I could barely get through a day now with the iPhone 4 but time I plug it into night with the same settings in the same e usage I generally have about 40% of my battery left which means I could probably get through just about a day and a half which is fantastic I don't mind charging my phone every night fact I can get through a day without having to worry about it really is great the battery in here is significantly improved over weights off the outgoing models new design and a bit larger so if battery life is a concern for you do not worry you're actually going to get fantastic battery life here so there are something else sort of going on here too there's a new a 3-axis gyroscope we really haven't had the chance to use it very much only a few games take advantage of it what that's going to mean is with previous generation iPhones that accelerometer so it sets move it left and right it's now going to sense forward and back are really across the sixaxis platta sort of three-dimensional shapes so you can really move the phone and get some more some more fun at it well we haven't seen developers take advantage of that quite yet not much to talk about so next let's go ahead and talk about how the whole features sort of come together for our phone the iPhone is very polarizing device people either love the iPhone hate the iPhone love Apple or hate Apple I will say that I review a lot of devices and the iPhone is my daily phone of choice and that really is for one particular reason and that the web browsing the web browsing for me is one of the most important features to have on a mobile device like I said you guys would probably guess I'd be most of my business online being able to have a browser that can play what I needed to play and work I need it to work is fantastic I certainly the lack of Flash has been an issue however html5 compatibility has really stepped up and been a nice sort of inclusion so with Web OS 4 or sorry iOS 4 not webOS I you can play videos inside of the browser and you get sort of a lot of improved web browsing experience so certainly from that aspect the iPhone 4 has been a great device something I've been really happy with its small it's in it fits in the pocket very well it's not necessarily so flashy everybody's got an iPhone nowadays but for my needs it suits me very well let's talk about negatives because there are some negatives to talk about with the iPhone 4 it certainly not all roses and candy nail clients is still awful so we finally have multiple exchange accounts which is great you thread a messaging which is great I still can't star favorite emails pretty much on the options I have is to move it to a folder or markers unread and that is about it the mail client in here is not very good it's not on par with Android devices it's not on par with webOS or s I've been on par with Windows Mobile the outgoing legacy 6.5 models the email client is just not very good through a heavy email user you're going to be better served the Blackberry or another device that's what we rely on primarily with an iPhone you are going to have some problems one other thing that I want to talk about pretty quickly is the keyboard turn they all seen the keyboard on many videos the algorithms here do look to be improved um actually having much more accuracy at the iPhone 4 keyboard I did at the outgoing 3GS so now there's something to keep in mind another sort of negative into the Penhale if the device is sort of apples walled garden that's sort of implicit when you buy an iPhone 4 are you be able to live within the limitations and the answer for me is yes I can sometimes I wish that I had a bit more openness to it but for the most part it has not been a problem I'm a big fan of Android and other operating systems and they sort of offer that alternative if you're interested but know you're getting into with the phone know that you're going to have some hard time sort of getting everything you want out of entertaining it for how you like to customize up a few exceptions of background and folders and speaking of folders we are still looking at a very stale albeit elegant and functional operating system that's earlier they changed very much since generation one actually looking at just rows of icons and now you can put them into folders but really things are as they are and they haven't really improved that much so if you're looking for a very complex file management system or better way to serve a range or your icons arrange your homescreen or for that matter you can get some lockscreen notifications so I open my phone all I can see is the time and date you're really going to want to look elsewhere certainly there are jailbreaking options which you can do but if you want to keep your phone to refresh and with its warranty jailbreaking may not be the best option for you and you're gonna have to live with what Apple provides and what they provide is a very nice package and a very well-rounded package but there are a lot of big question marks as to why why didn't they they've sort of been addressing those why didn't days one by one cut copy and paste finally came multitasking finally km tethering finally came so hopefully you're going to see those at some point I'll hopefully at that that point served they haven't been passed by other manufacturers so if I could put all this together in sort of a final summation the iPhone 4 gets a very solid four and a quarter out of five stars from me that serve three quarters that's missing I would have liked to seen some additional features like I mentioned homescreen notifications would have been very nice so news and new notification systems in general without the obtrusive okay or canceled serve disrupt over you're doing something like how the Palm Pre with webos notifications or Android with a pull down tray I really would have made this now brings them itself and a phone definitely pop hardware standpoint I think the hardware here is top-notch it's fast it's quick does how many and you slow down the eight for system-on-a-chip coupled with 512 megabytes of RAM makes this thing a screamer and it's very very very fast speaker quality is great camera quality is fantastic and the phone works very well certainly I wish I didn't have to deal with the death grip but so far has not that'd be a problem I may pick up a bumper case for it I would sort of alleviate that in the short-term its overall I've been very happy with the iPhone this is what I take with me when I go out when I'm doing whatever I may be doing this is what's always in my pocket so if that tells you anything at the phone extremely enjoy oh there are other fantastic alternatives out there the iPhone is the one that I choose to take with me so me guys for all these other videos that I mentioned be sure to check out the channel youtube.com slash John for Lakers and for all your tech news check out TechnoBuffalo comm I am John Rhett enger' and I will see you in the next video you