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Pros
- The iPhone4 has always felt delicate, the bumper makes it feel a lot more solid and impact resistant
- The case is designed by Apple and you can tell, it’s more polished and fits the industrial design a lot better than other cases
- The rubberized edges keep the iPhone from slipping and sliding when on a desk or other surfaces
- I have a car holder from Proclip and they have a new iPhone4 holder that accomodates the bumper.

Cons
- Attracts lint around the edges of the case which drives me crazy since I’m a bit OCD about my technology
- Harder to put in and pull out of the pocket because of the rubberized edges
- Doesn’t fit the iPhone4 dock that I bought

Some first impressions after using the phone for a few hours:

- The display is really amazing. Text is so sharp, I can see all my icons in my folders.

- I don’t have any issues with the reception dropping when using it in my left hand like some of the blogs are reporting. I was able to reproduce the issue intermittently, dropping 1-2 bars. Also no issue with the screen.

- The build quality is excellent. I like the weight of the phone. It feels a lot more polished than the 3GS.

- Background app streaming is working just fine, was able to keep pandora running while checking my emails.

- Phone is very snappy and responsive, probably due to the 512 MB of ram.

- Have not been able to take much pictures or video yet, but I’ll have a review of that separately.

Apple has announced the new iPhone 4 with a slew of new hardware and software updates. Even with great feature updates such as the Retina Display technology and FaceTime I can’t help but think the new camera will have the most lasting impact on the world of technology. According to Flickr, there were over 17,000 photos uploaded yesterday to the site just from the iPhone 3GS. I’m not sure what the stats are for the amount of TwitPics uploaded per day but I’m sure the number is even larger. All this to say that cell phone pictures are ubiquitous and continue to grow.

The other constant with camera phone pics is they generally suck.  I looked at the new Sprint EVO’s camera pics and videos the other day and I commented to Pat Sun that was not impressed at all. Camera phones continue to push megapixels over sensor quality which has lead to larger pictures with the same crappy quality. I don’t need to be able to zoom further into crap if the over all image is crap to begin with. That’s why Steve Jobs hit it on the head today with the new 5MP camera phone built into the iPhone 4.  This sample pic from the Apple iPhone page made me say wow.   Supposedly the picture is straight out of the iPhone 4 with no editing.  They didn’t go for more megapixels, they went for a higher quality sensor.  Finally, someone got it right and the whole world will see camera phone pictures in a better light.

Image Source:  Apple.com iPhone 4 Gallery

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Originally uploaded by marinaro500.

June can’t come fast enough. I’ve been waiting for this to come out for a while now. Hopefully the camera phone has good optics. Thanks Apple.