Apple announces new iPhone 4: the Steve Jobs keynote Los Angeles Times (blog)
07.06.10
...the phone's new "retina stretch," which boasts a resolution four times higher than that of previous versions. Its 3.5-inch exhibit features 960 x 640 pixels -- 78% of the pixels of the much larger iPad, he says. He calls it "the tucker window on the planet."
10:42 a.m. - Problem!
Jobs runs into a major problem when a revelation of the new phone's resolution fails because of a poor Internet connection. He's unable to burden the New York Times' Web page -- an odd, unscripted blooper that's rare for Apple.
"Boy, I'm grim guys, I don't know what's going on," Jobs said.
"Scott, you got any suggestions?" he says, seeking staff from Scott Forstall, Apple's vice president of iPhone software.
"Verizon!" someone yells. The audience laughs.
10:50 a.m. - Gyroscope
The iPhone 4 will have a built-in Gyroscope, a much more very motion sensor that can sense the phone's position around three difference axes. It can sense nautical toss about, roll, and yaw -- with the accelerometer, that means the new phone can sense six different axes of motion.
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