IPhone 4: First Look and manual cutting "Sims"

Apple has once again to mock the competition, releasing product, immediately to break the bank. Sold millions of iPhone 4 users, and still want, but no - the deficit, even though the subject with bloated loss signalWhich, by the way, in the ground and it is relevant only in the United States. While searching yes shall find, however, a lot of money. Cunning "speculators" in Moscow offer iPhone 4 at a price of $ 3,000 per carcass in Ukraine related gadget cost ranges from $ 1,600 to $ 2,400. They all are waiting for the fall, when the novelty spread throughout the world and prices will bounce back. In the meantime, I would like to share first impressions obtained from the use of this magical device, literally on the night came into my hands, so to speak, stuffing it with content for the future is very secured owner. Laziness these people fool themselves iTunes head and some synchronization, and sometimes there is no time for it.

Sawing, cut and Chekryzhov SIM

By the way speaking, this is the second instance of the iPhone 4, came into my hands. In this case, the "European", is not tied to a service provider. The first machine was imported from the United States and given to me by the owner to an hour in the hope that you can unlock. Call he did not, but I made him a fashionable player - inside the machine was installed AT & T card, and it is no problem to activate via the iTunes, from then on it was a matter of technique. What I am - in the second iPhone, which is now in question, of course, no "Sims" was not complete, and because it uses a card is not simple, and micro-SIM. Without it with a new phone to do nothing, because it is not activated. I had put to the expense of one of the personal "simok". But the problem was that I was not where it was to do loop for easy and quick cutting excess plastic with a conventional SIM-card. Neither plant micro-SIM, or printer to print the finished outline and it already cut. I had to do everything by eye, using what was at hand: the Soviet scissors is not the first freshness, stationery knife, a marker for alcohol scrubbing marker traces, polishing cloth, line, nazhdachku.

I also took the instruction to Techradar and the following video to compare SIM-card and micro-SIM:

The result was Kryven'ka, kosenkim, but the card is working, and the machine I'm using it activated without any problems. The process was not particularly difficult, but time-consuming and tedious (tinkering a little more than an hour). Designated marker one cut line - not like it, too thick line has turned out. I tried to identify second office knife - came out a bit better, but the card forever stir a ruler. The remaining lines roughly outlined marker and cut with scissors into the eye, after which the finished piece of plastic with a chip with sandpaper. Hopefully more so did not have to deal with extreme, at least with the help of such a poor instrument. That's the result:

Extract

Well, it's time to look at the "patient." It is packed with good, firm style of Apple, although the box iPhone 4 black color became white, and on its upper side the terminal is no longer a life-size, but only in part. It looks strange, unusual, and even felt a kind of 3D-effect.

Supplied standard: in addition to the phone has a scanty set of "waste paper", the traditional labels with apples, charger (machine came from the UK, and he equipped with a huge network adapter), USB-cable and a standard wired headset - again, "pills", and I would like Apple In-Ear Headphones With Mic and Remote. A funny detail - European Included is a corporate tool to extract SIM-tray, and the US does not. By the way a very useful thing. Unlike plastic snotty treev iPhone 3G / 3GS, which are easily recovered by conventional paper clip, in the iPhone 4, this element sits in its place is much stronger. I should add that the SIM-steel tray into the groove with a noticeable click and the whole process resembles the work of the sliding mechanism in the slider phone - a trifle, but nice.

We consider

What can be said about the iPhone 4 looks? He became more solid: glass and metal, a little awkwardness, very thin, but a heavy body. You take in your hand and feel - a thing! When I compared my iPhone 3GS with the novelty, I was visited by a feeling of deja vu. The bearded in 2007, when the first Aluminum iPhone only began to seep into their homes, one of my friend dragged this device for 5-minute bride. I then compared it with his "people» WM-communicator Samsung i710, after which the latter has become to me like a some baby rattles. Something I felt today. In appearance and tactile sensations old man loses much the iPhone 4, but I can not help but note that in hand iPhone 3GS during a phone call is better. It makes itself felt curved shape of the rear panel of the predecessor.

I noticed that the glass is in a sort of box, but I did not understand, it is made of any material. On the table I want to put the phone very carefully - after all the glass, whatever it was reinforced and chemically reinforced, very brittle material, it is poorly responsive to sudden shocks. I myself, remembering the excitement and the deficit associated with the original Apple covers for iPad, pre-stocked "Bumper", yet had the chance.

Plug and Play

After the activation process and output gadget to normal operation the first thing plunges into shock screen. Recall that in the so-called novelty applied Retina-display with a diagonal of 3.5 inches, made of IPS technology and has a resolution 640h960 points. I compared it with the iPhone 3GS screen, and I was greatly sad. And not only because of the definition interface, which it seems to be drawn on paper, but also because of the significantly higher the contrast (black - it's really black, not gray), better color reproduction, wider angles review.

Then, the web browser has been launched, and my eyes widened again. No wonder Jobs said at WWDC 2010 that the new display perfectly sharpened by text. Many Web pages do not even have to increase in order to read the small text on a diagonal - it is perceived easily. As an example screenshots c Mobile-review (cut width 500 points to avoid resizing effect, and to show how the text looks like), as Macradar opened in adapted for the small screen of the old iPhone version.

Amazing display and high-definition. It is so easy to read text and how it can be done from the screenshots above, even though a relatively small screen size and in proportion to the reduced size of the final image.

Of course, iBooks installed and loaded my library - the application is clearly sharpened under Retina display. Read much more pleasant than iPhoe 3GS screen.

For comparison, a screenshot of the iPhone 3GS:

I will not focus on the characteristics of the device, all of them, and so have long known: the same processor in the iPad, a 5-megapixel camera LED flash illumination and a photosensor function to record HD-Video, VGA-second camera on the front panel 16 or 32 GB flash memory 512 MB RAM. I note only that a special increase in productivity compared to the iPhone 3GS did not notice. Although, it is necessary to take into account increased four times the resolution of the display and, as a result, increase the burden on the computing unit. In addition, Apple could easily reduce its frequency in order to increase autonomy. Still, the iPad battery will be more powerful.

As for running games, not imprisoned under Retina display, in general, they look good, happy color rendering, but still felt that the picture is stretched, and the image is a little unclear. As they say, to the good you get used quickly, and I want a cutting-definition eye not only a web browser and on the desktop, but also in games. I really hope that the hits are adapted for display on iPhone 4 and do not have to buy them again.

I would like to iPhone 4!

In one study, analysts pointed out that the majority of buyers iPhone 4 - the so-called "apgreydery", that is, those who had previously used the previous models Apple smartphones. Judging by my first impressions of working with a novelty - it is not surprising. Man has "become attached" to the user-friendly interface iPhone OS, got a load favorite applications, is pleased with how a herd of elephants to their gadget and does not intend to change it to any other device with a rival platform to board. Such a user can change their old iPhone just on the new iPhone and now Apple offers the newest iPhone, which is faster, better, better and longer plastic! What can be no doubt - we must take! Me in novelty enslaved display and more thin and strong glass-steel housing. For some, it will be important camera (I myself rarely use a phone camera), and can be built-in speaker, which became louder, and now bass sounds like in my favorite Nokia devices E61 / 61i / 71.

In addition, according to my subjective feelings, the player also began to sound better. I tested it using headphones Ultimate Ears TripleFi 10vi, so the nuances of difference was on anything. The sound became clearer and more detailed, but, again, the ears are different. By the way, "pumps" Headphone iPhone 4 is also better. Half the volume it sounds the same as the iPhone 3GS by 70-80%.

I'd like to be the owner of a new iPhone, but a pragmatic economist inside will not get extra money. Waiting for a couple of months can save you a significant amount, for which in my big the family can always find a good use than indulging the desires of short-term hard-boiled gadzhetomana. But this is less want to iPhone 4, I did not, unfortunately.

iPhone 4 for the review given store "America"