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Sep 10, 2010

iPhone 4

So the boss showed up with an iPhone 4 the other day, and said "here you go"! So that rather made my day.

And now having had it for a couple of weeks, I feel like I've died and gone to heaven. My previous phone was the iPhone 3G, over which the iPhone 4 is a huge improvement, for three primary reasons:

3. Multitasking. It was such a pain having to exit out of my navigation software to make a call or fiddle with the iPod, then having to go back in and tell it where to go again. All that is behind.

2. Pixels! The display on the iPhone 4 is 960x640, which means FOUR times as may pixels than the previous model. Everything looks fantastically crisp and sharp. I can't wait for desktop displays to approach the same pixel density.

1. Speed, speed, speed! Everything now works quickly and smoothly. The phone can keep up with me! The 3G was terribly slow and jerky at times.

It certainly feels different in the hand as well. Heavier than the 3G, which makes it feel solid, and narrower which is great, but otherwise I must say I preferred the feel of the rounded plastic back of the old model to the edgy steel and glass of the new model.