WEBVTT - How the iPhone 4 Works 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:02.960 Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve Camray. 0:00:03.240 --> 0:00:08.959 It's ready. Are you get in touch with technology? With 0:00:09.039 --> 0:00:18.360 tech Stuff from how stuff works dot com. Hello again, everyone, 0:00:18.400 --> 0:00:20.520 welcome to tech Stuff. My name is Chris Pollette and 0:00:20.520 --> 0:00:22.800 I'm an editor here at how stuff works dot com. 0:00:23.239 --> 0:00:26.160 Standing across from me as always, the senior writer, Jonathan Strickland. 0:00:26.520 --> 0:00:29.840 Just remember what your old friend Jack Burton says, Yes, sir, 0:00:30.000 --> 0:00:34.160 the check is in the mail. All right, then that's 0:00:34.240 --> 0:00:36.879 that's from That's from Big Trouble in Little China. Okay, 0:00:37.280 --> 0:00:39.800 it's a great movie. Has nothing to do with our 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:43.040 podcast today, No, because we're actually going to talk about 0:00:43.080 --> 0:00:46.440 the the iPhone for Yes, this was a topic that 0:00:46.640 --> 0:00:49.560 we ever received many, many many requests about. In fact, 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:52.560 we received requests about it before the iPhone for debuted. 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:56.360 And here's a secret for you guys. We don't get 0:00:57.120 --> 0:01:02.560 uh pre release devices ever. Really uh. We don't have 0:01:02.640 --> 0:01:05.760 companies send us these things. We don't review them. So 0:01:06.160 --> 0:01:08.760 it's hard for us to report on things that haven't 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:10.520 come out yet because we don't get our hands on 0:01:10.560 --> 0:01:13.320 them ourselves. We have to rely on information just like 0:01:13.560 --> 0:01:15.959 most of you do. But now that the iPhone ford 0:01:16.000 --> 0:01:18.920 has been out for a while, and uh for a 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:21.720 while being a couple of days. Uh, we can kind 0:01:21.720 --> 0:01:23.600 of talk a little bit about it and what makes 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:27.000 it different from the previous iPhones. Now, we are going 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:31.360 to avoid, for the most part, discussions of iOS four 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:33.560 because we're going to do that in a separate podcast, 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:37.720 since the operating system works on devices besides just the 0:01:37.760 --> 0:01:40.360 iPhone four, So we're mostly going to look at the 0:01:40.360 --> 0:01:42.839 hardware here and what we may talk about a couple 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:46.800 of features that are iOS for you know, features, but 0:01:46.880 --> 0:01:51.240 they're unique to the iPhone four right now, so let's 0:01:51.240 --> 0:01:55.360 start by talking about how it's different from previous iPhones. 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:58.040 And if you were to set an iPhone for next 0:01:58.080 --> 0:02:00.440 to an iPhone three G S, you would notice some 0:02:00.480 --> 0:02:03.560 differences right away. That's for one thing, it's flat like 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:09.760 an halibut. Yes, and an alibut his name is eric Um. 0:02:09.880 --> 0:02:14.280 So the old ipho three G and three gs. And 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:18.040 actually that every design up until the iPhone four had 0:02:18.080 --> 0:02:20.799 kind of a rounded back, yes, which meant that it 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:25.079 wouldn't sit flat when you set it down on a tablet. Yeah, 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:27.320 well not. It kind of wobbled a little bit because 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:29.880 it was rounded just enough so that it would kind 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:34.600 of not sit perfectly flat UM, and some people thought 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:37.040 that was irritating. Some people didn't care. In fact, a 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:38.960 lot of the reviews I've read where they've talked about 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:41.480 the design, they've said, you know, we didn't have any 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:43.560 issues with the old design, but it is kind of 0:02:43.560 --> 0:02:48.680 cool to see a new design. The Apple is moving forward. 0:02:48.720 --> 0:02:51.760 They're not resting on their laurels. Well, this one is 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:56.880 flat flat can flat on both sides, and glass on 0:02:57.000 --> 0:03:01.079 both sides. That's true on like previous versions, UM, the 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:04.320 the iPhone four has glass on both sides. UM. It's 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:07.080 point three seven inches thick, four and a half inches tall, 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:10.040 two point three one inches wide, waste four point announces 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:15.120 has a three and a half inch display with pixels 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:17.360 per inch UM and the glass, by the way, it's 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:21.800 aluminum based ceramic glass. It's very, very tough, although you know, 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:24.359 don't go playing soccer with it because it will break. 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:27.760 If you drop your iPhone four and it breaks, and 0:03:27.800 --> 0:03:29.840 you say, well, tech stuff said it was really tough. 0:03:30.480 --> 0:03:33.280 I think when they say really tough, they're saying, well, 0:03:33.280 --> 0:03:35.120 we figured eventually got to put it in a pocket 0:03:35.160 --> 0:03:37.240 with your keys, and it might win a fight with 0:03:37.280 --> 0:03:39.680 your keys or your cat's claws, but it probably will 0:03:39.720 --> 0:03:42.480 not win a fight with a set of concrete steps. 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:44.880 It might not even win a fight with your keys 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:49.160 over a prolonged, prolonged use. So here's the thing, is 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:51.200 that the iPhone four is brand new, so it's really 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:54.760 until people have had this for a while, and these 0:03:54.800 --> 0:03:58.840 these phones have had some uh some pretty good use um, 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:00.880 and we're not really going to know for sure. We're 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:02.800 not gonna know it. Maybe that the scratches show up 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:05.640 in time, but but it seems to be a pretty 0:04:05.720 --> 0:04:10.280 hardy design so far. Also, that that glass we talked about, 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:16.440 it has an oleophobic coating which is supposed to kind 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:19.680 of keep smudges away. Uh, it's supposed to, you know, 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:22.760 the oleophobic means that the oils and your skin aren't 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:24.960 supposed to be able to cling to that glass. It's 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:28.200 supposed to not accumulate um. But from what I've seen, 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:32.760 it's a smudge magnet um. If it's like the coating 0:04:32.920 --> 0:04:35.960 on my first generation iPod Touch, it's how we're going 0:04:36.000 --> 0:04:38.880 to do a reasonably decent job at avoiding smudges. If 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:42.159 it's more like the coating on my iPad um. It 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:44.960 will end up needing to be wiped down about every 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:47.479 twenty three seconds or so. Yeah, I'm thinking it's going 0:04:47.560 --> 0:04:50.920 to be more like the iPad um. So the especially 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:53.000 from what I've been reading. I don't own an iPhone 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:55.640 for nor do I, so we can't really talk about 0:04:55.640 --> 0:05:00.760 this from personal use perspective. Um, I have held one alert? Yeah, 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:03.960 where was that? I got friends who own one? You've 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:06.680 been cheating on me with other people who know things 0:05:06.720 --> 0:05:08.640 about tech I've got all right, I've got some friends 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:12.080 who are Apple fanatics. Yeah, I mean I'm I like Apple, 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:15.200 all right. I know I got the anti mac bias 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:19.520 rep early on and tech stuff, but that's just not true. Um, 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:21.680 but I'm not a fanatic. You know. I don't go 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:23.320 out there and buy the product as soon as it 0:05:23.360 --> 0:05:26.000 hits the market. I do that for Android. Uh. The 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:28.800 I've never I've never stood in a line for an 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:32.640 Apple product, And that's not true. That was the very 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:36.039 first iMac. That was the last time I stood in 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:39.039 a line. So you're older and wiser now, at least older. Well, 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:41.160 I just don't feel like standing a line anymore. So 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:45.520 you're older and lazier now. So the Yeah, the the 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:48.880 it's a it's a neat little device. I mean it's 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:51.440 you know, it's nice design. I like it a lot. 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:53.840 They have they have done have made quite a few 0:05:53.880 --> 0:05:56.919 improvements to it. For example, the camera. Yes, it's a 0:05:56.920 --> 0:06:00.160 five megapixel camera. Yes, UM has a larger the the 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:04.320 most important thing since we've done the megapixel myth busting 0:06:04.400 --> 0:06:08.680 in our previous podcast. And it has a larger image sensor. Yeah, 0:06:09.400 --> 0:06:12.160 it's got it's got a really good color detection and 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:15.680 uh contrast features as well. From what I understand, the 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:18.039 pictures that you take with this camera do tend to 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:22.120 be very sharp and and the colors are very true 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:24.520 to what the actual colors are. So apparently, you know, 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:28.800 as a camera in a phone, it serves quite well. 0:06:28.839 --> 0:06:30.200 And and in fact we should go ahead and say 0:06:30.200 --> 0:06:33.720 there's not just one, there two because it's one on 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:36.520 the back that that it has people traditionally use I 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:39.599 guess if you will, for the for taking photos that 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:42.800 you might say upload to Flicker or you know, put 0:06:42.839 --> 0:06:45.400 on your Facebook profile. That's that's the big one. That's 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:50.360 that's the larger photo size and UM photo sensor on it. 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:52.839 So yeah, there's a forward facing in and back facing camera. 0:06:52.920 --> 0:06:56.520 The forward facing camera is used for other features like 0:06:56.600 --> 0:06:59.479 FaceTime when you can also use the back facing camera 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:01.160 for FaceTime if you want to. And we'll get into 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:02.960 FaceTime and a little bit. That's one of those i 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:06.719 iOS four features that is unique right now to the 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:09.800 iPhone four. Yes, I'm sure eventually it will come to 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:11.880 other devices, but right now the iPhone four is the 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:14.400 only thing that can run it. Um. Before we leave 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:16.760 the camera thing, though, you feel like I should mention 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:20.160 the l E ED Oh yes, it has a flash. 0:07:20.200 --> 0:07:22.200 I feel like if it's an l D maybe we 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:25.360 should put flash in quotes. But it does function that way. 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:28.240 You can turn it on even for video mode. If 0:07:28.240 --> 0:07:30.880 you want to record video. You can use your I 0:07:30.920 --> 0:07:34.640 S I phone for for that purpose. Hello, let me 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:37.400 trip over that. And uh, you can use the LED 0:07:37.720 --> 0:07:40.640 flash to take still photos or leave it on for 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:43.280 video recording. Yeah. So now you don't have to worry 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:46.640 about those low light situations as much, where you know, 0:07:46.680 --> 0:07:48.920 you take the photo and then eventually you look at 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:50.560 it and you realize you can't make out any of 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:52.960 the details. The l a ED should help a little 0:07:53.000 --> 0:07:54.440 bit with that. Not grant, you're still not gonna be 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:58.440 able to go into pitch black and rooms and take 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:02.080 a picture and expect full D detail. But it'll help. Um, 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:05.080 you were mentioning the display, the three t six pixels 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:10.120 per square inch display, it's a the The full resolution 0:08:10.160 --> 0:08:14.360 is ninety six forty pixels. UM that three six pixels 0:08:14.360 --> 0:08:17.640 per square inch. The the When Jobs announced this at 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:23.120 the Worldwide Developers Conference, UM, he called it a retina display, 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:27.840 and the claim was that the human eye is only 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:32.680 capable of detecting around three hundred pixels per inch at 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:36.720 a distance of around ten or eleven inches from your face. 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:42.800 That's not entirely true, um, Your ability to detect that 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:47.040 kind of resolution. The number of pixels per inch depends 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:50.320 on several factors, the main one being distanced from your eyes. 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:54.520 So yeah, between like nine and twelve inches. It maybe 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:57.720 somewhere in the realm of four hundred pixels per inch. 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:01.079 That's not to say that the display isn't gorgeous. It 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:04.320 is beautiful. It's probably the best looking display I've ever 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:08.040 seen on the phone. I still haven't seen one in 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:12.000 person yet. I have not seen the EVO, which has 0:09:12.280 --> 0:09:16.719 a very good screen as well. But out of all 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:19.360 the ones, I have seen. It is the sharpest image 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:23.880 I've ever It's beautiful. The colors are very vibrant. Um. 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:26.200 You don't really see that pixelation that you can see 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:30.280 on a lot of other devices. So even though the 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:33.240 claim that this is that it's a greater resolution than 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:37.559 the human eye can possibly detect is probably not entirely accurate, 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:42.240 I don't think it matters. That's nitpicking. Yeah, Like if 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:45.120 I were to stand up, Mr Jobs, I I beg 0:09:45.200 --> 0:09:48.440 to differ at ten inches, I can detect four hundred 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:51.080 and seven pixel per edge, and that's greater than your 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:56.800 three whatever. Um, I would expect to be ejected immediately 0:09:56.880 --> 0:09:59.760 from the conference because that is nitpicking. The display is 0:09:59.800 --> 0:10:04.920 a amazing um so. Uh. Another thing that you'll notice 0:10:05.000 --> 0:10:07.840 if you're just looking at the phone before you've even 0:10:07.840 --> 0:10:11.600 turned it on. It has buttons. Yes, it does have buttons. Yeah, 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:13.880 something that you don't expect to see on an Apple device. 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:16.480 Necessarily they try to get away from that as much 0:10:16.480 --> 0:10:19.520 as possible. But yeah, it has has dedicated volume up 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:22.840 and volume down buttons as opposed to the little mono 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:26.600 button that it used to have. Yeah. Yeah, they found 0:10:26.600 --> 0:10:29.560 out that people actually want that. I think. Yeah, I 0:10:29.600 --> 0:10:32.120 think I think it just works better. Also, another thing 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:34.560 that is noticeable is that it has sort of an 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:39.240 aluminum border along the edge. Well it's not actually aluminium, No, 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:41.679 it's not, but that's what looks like, oh yeah, yeah, 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:45.520 it's Um, it's actually that's the that serves as an antenna. 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:48.920 Actually to antennas, yes it does. There's one that's the 0:10:49.160 --> 0:10:53.839 WiFi Bluetooth antenna. One that's the edge three G antenna. 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:57.040 This also has caused some issues which I guess we 0:10:57.080 --> 0:10:59.840 can talk about really quickly. Um. It turns out that 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:03.560 if you hold the phone a certain way known as 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:09.080 now and forever the wrong way, um, that you could 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:12.480 bridge the gap between these two antenna and by bridging 0:11:12.480 --> 0:11:15.199 the gap, you sort of create one long antenna. And 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:18.040 the thing about antenna, one of the things about antenna 0:11:18.120 --> 0:11:24.840 is that, uh, the length of the antenna helps determine 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:28.280 how efficient that antenna isn't picking up the signals. It 0:11:28.320 --> 0:11:30.160 needs to be a particular length in order to pick 0:11:30.280 --> 0:11:34.439 up certain frequencies of radio signals efficiently. So if you 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:37.040 hold the phone in a certain way so that you're 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:39.920 bridging that gap, you've created a long antenna. It's not 0:11:40.000 --> 0:11:42.199 as efficient at at picking up signals, and you may 0:11:42.280 --> 0:11:45.400 notice that your reception suffers as a result. People have 0:11:45.480 --> 0:11:47.520 said that, you know, they'll look at the phone, it'll 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:50.000 have let's say four bars of reception, and then they 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:51.640 pick the phone up and they look at it and 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:54.719 it either loses one or two bars immediately. Well, it's 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:58.959 because they're bridging that gap. Apple's response to this, Steve 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:02.840 jobs response to this actually in an email, was you're 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:06.280 holding it wrong. So either don't hold it that way, 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:10.120 or buy one of our Apple iPhone four cases that 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:13.400 will create you know, by putting it into the case, 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:15.480 you no longer going to have contact with the antenna. 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:20.520 You won't make that problem happen. Uh. This has caused 0:12:20.559 --> 0:12:24.680 some journalists to criticize Apple because it's the first time 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:29.280 that they've offered an actual Apple case for for one 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:31.640 of their products for sale for one of their products, 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:36.560 and the well, not the only time, but yeah, that bumper, 0:12:36.640 --> 0:12:39.360 And it does appear in the sense that it's not 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:42.480 a this instead of going with the third party thing, 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:47.040 they've gone this is an Apple produced case that is 0:12:47.080 --> 0:12:49.520 supposed to solve this problem, and it's an additional thirty 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:54.080 dollars so for the say conspiracy theorists. They might say, oh, 0:12:54.240 --> 0:12:58.120 so you're not going to give us a free uh bumper, 0:12:58.160 --> 0:13:01.280 which is what Apple is calling it. Um, so you're 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:04.480 automatically you knew about this and you're doing this. This 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:07.559 is what some conspiracy or they're or they're just saying like, oh, 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:09.480 so what you're telling us is you've you've got a 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:13.079 flaw on your design. And instead of instead of fixing 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:17.199 it or giving us a fix the legitimate customers, you're 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:19.959 telling the customers like, oh, well, here's the device, but 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:21.360 if you want to work, you need to buy this. 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:25.760 It's almost like extortion. Um. That's what some people are 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:30.120 criticizing Apple about again. UM. Now, personally, I did not 0:13:30.120 --> 0:13:32.000 notice this because I did not know about that that 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:36.080 particular issue when I was handling the iPhone for so 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:38.960 I didn't even think to look for it. Um. I 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:42.319 had not heard about it. So I can't report from 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:45.960 personal experience if it's you know, the case or not. Well, 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:49.320 apparently some it seems to affect people who are left 0:13:49.320 --> 0:13:51.600 handed a little bit more frequently. Yes, And I am 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:55.600 of the sinister persuasion, so it would hit me. Um. 0:13:55.640 --> 0:13:58.480 And apparently a from what I read there is a 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:03.520 left handed uh group and that center group, Yeah, that 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:07.440 sent a criticism to Apple about it. UM for what 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:09.200 it's worth, And I mean, I haven't used it, and 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:13.000 I don't know if there's anything uh, you know, wrong, 0:14:13.360 --> 0:14:17.040 if they're actually doing something for for nefarious purposes or not. 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:21.080 But let's just say it's it's part of the design. UM. 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:25.640 Ours Technica actually talked to UM, an organization known as Antennesis. UM. 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:30.640 They're involved with mobile device antennas and UM Basically they 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:34.120 asked them, you know, is this legitimate? Is there you know, 0:14:34.240 --> 0:14:37.360 something strange going on? And apparently from what from what 0:14:37.440 --> 0:14:42.680 Antennesis told Ours Technica, UM, the iPhone four isn't the 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:46.360 only phone to have a some kind of problem along 0:14:46.440 --> 0:14:50.720 these lines. UM. Partly this is because of FCC restrictions 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:55.000 on where radiation can emit from a phone, and they 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:58.120 try to put uh the antenna towards the bottom, away 0:14:58.160 --> 0:15:02.040 from your head, towards where your job would UM. And I'm, 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:03.840 you know, thinking back on it my motor role razor 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:05.800 back a couple of years ago when I used one 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:08.520 of those the antenna is, if I'm not mistaken, down 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:10.280 towards the bottom, the fat end of the phone where 0:15:10.280 --> 0:15:13.400 the microphone is as well. Um, because they don't want 0:15:13.440 --> 0:15:17.800 that up near your brain, I guess. Um. So apparently 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:22.160 others like the HTC Droid Incredible um and Google's Nexus 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:26.640 one Android phone and some Nokia phones also have a 0:15:26.760 --> 0:15:28.520 version of this problem where the antenna is placed on 0:15:28.560 --> 0:15:30.400 the outside of the case and you can actually touch 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:35.120 it and create that uh antennas circuit problem and it 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:39.680 will cause reception problems and possibly dropped calls. Um. But 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:41.760 it's not just apparently, it also has to do with 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:44.920 the way the manufacturer tries to get around the SEC 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:48.080 regulations and you know, work with that, and it has 0:15:48.120 --> 0:15:50.000 a lot to do with a lot of different people apparently, 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:55.560 but certain phones, including the iPhone for have that problem. 0:15:55.600 --> 0:15:58.560 Now we've talked a lot about what's on the outside 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:01.160 of this device, why don't we when we dive into 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:03.080 the device little bit and talk about some of the 0:16:03.120 --> 0:16:06.160 stuff that makes it go okay, like maybe the gyroscope. 0:16:06.560 --> 0:16:08.600 I was gonna actually start with the processor. Oh, let's 0:16:08.640 --> 0:16:10.200 go with the processes. You know, it's it's a one 0:16:10.200 --> 0:16:14.840 giga Hurts arm cortex A eight chip. It's the same 0:16:14.840 --> 0:16:17.520 thing that you find in the iPad except ours technical 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:20.440 says that it does not move quite as quickly. It's 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:23.600 not as brisk as the the iPads processor, at least 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:26.360 in they're testing, um and does things. It does things 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:28.760 almost as fast, but it's not as fast. Now maybe 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:32.800 that's a result of having the other iPhone guts in 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:35.160 there and it's having to run all that other stuff 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:38.920 could be but um, it also may not be quite 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:41.280 as fast. But yeah, Apple says it's a one gigga 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:44.640 Hurts processor. Uh, it's got phone or in twelve megabytes 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:48.320 or ram um and uh. Now we're going to go 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:50.480 into the whole gyroscope thing now. So it has an 0:16:50.520 --> 0:16:53.960 accelerometer like the previous iPhones, which allows you when you 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:55.920 you know, turn it from portrait to landscape. That's what 0:16:55.960 --> 0:17:00.600 makes the screen flip. Uh, and can sense motion in 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:04.840 certain directions. Now it has also a three access gyroscope. Yes, 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:09.919 Steve Jobs used in his keynote speech for the announcement 0:17:09.920 --> 0:17:12.760 of the iPhone for to play Jenga in front of 0:17:12.760 --> 0:17:15.720 a whole auditorium full of people, right, and he got 0:17:15.800 --> 0:17:18.879 roundly mocked by the Tech for Us for playing Jenga. 0:17:18.960 --> 0:17:21.560 Although from what I understand, the people who were actually there, 0:17:21.640 --> 0:17:24.520 who were not jaded tech journalists, thought it was kind 0:17:24.520 --> 0:17:26.840 of cool. As they were developers. They were looking at 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:29.960 it not from oh this is such a goofy little demo. 0:17:30.040 --> 0:17:32.119 They were thinking of, oh my gosh, what are the 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:35.959 potential uses for this technology. Yes, maybe Jenga is not 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:41.520 the most UM useful application for adding a gyroscope, but 0:17:41.560 --> 0:17:44.640 it does give you much more control, much more precision 0:17:45.160 --> 0:17:47.600 of the control that you can the motion controls in 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:51.400 the iPhone. So the gyroscope gives you pitch yaw and 0:17:51.600 --> 0:17:57.840 rolla y'all, and the accelerometer helps. Uh. When paired with 0:17:57.880 --> 0:18:02.320 the accelerometer and the gyroscope, you've got a six axis controller, yes, 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:05.399 and you know you have can you have motion detection 0:18:05.440 --> 0:18:09.760 along six different axes of motions. So that means that 0:18:09.800 --> 0:18:14.040 developers can create games or other applications that um can 0:18:14.080 --> 0:18:16.680 really take advantage of this in ways that the previous 0:18:16.760 --> 0:18:21.240 iPhones could not handle. And it's also it's it's starting 0:18:21.280 --> 0:18:24.000 to sound a lot like things like the we mote 0:18:24.119 --> 0:18:27.880 and the Sony's Move controller, which also have these these 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:31.479 gyroscopes and accelerometers in them in order to translate your 0:18:31.520 --> 0:18:35.360 emotions into actions. In a in a virtual environment. So 0:18:35.400 --> 0:18:37.920 now the iPhone four could theoretically do the same sort 0:18:37.920 --> 0:18:41.359 of stuff. I would not be surprised to eventually see 0:18:41.520 --> 0:18:46.640 iPhone type uh apps that would allow you to control 0:18:47.840 --> 0:18:54.200 console based uh actions. It might take a while because 0:18:54.200 --> 0:18:56.520 you're gonna have you know, and I'm sure they would 0:18:56.560 --> 0:18:59.119 be branded by whatever company it was that was, you know, 0:18:59.240 --> 0:19:02.119 running the console. But so we think about that, you 0:19:02.119 --> 0:19:07.520 could actually theoretically, because of the the capabilities of this phone, 0:19:07.640 --> 0:19:10.800 you could turn it into a video game controller for 0:19:10.960 --> 0:19:14.399 specific console. Well, the iPhone has already been used to 0:19:14.560 --> 0:19:18.360 some degree as a controller, yeah, for different for different applications. 0:19:18.359 --> 0:19:20.919 For remote you can use as a remote controller for 0:19:20.960 --> 0:19:25.480 certain uh, certain electronic devices. So yeah, it's it's unheard of, 0:19:25.880 --> 0:19:27.640 but this will make it far more functional in that 0:19:27.800 --> 0:19:29.720 in that regard. Now, I don't know if anyone would 0:19:29.720 --> 0:19:32.280 ever go through the trouble to actually do that, I mean, 0:19:33.240 --> 0:19:37.119 but it's a potential. Yeah, it's it's it's not unheard of. 0:19:37.480 --> 0:19:42.159 So um, it also has uh there's something else that 0:19:42.240 --> 0:19:44.240 kind of the battery. Yeah, it's gonna talk about the 0:19:44.240 --> 0:19:46.480 battery life. Yes, So one of the things about the 0:19:46.480 --> 0:19:48.600 iPhone for is that the battery life is actually much 0:19:48.720 --> 0:19:53.600 longer than it uh than previous iPhones. Um. In fact, uh, 0:19:53.840 --> 0:19:56.280 even though it's a thinner device, the weight of the 0:19:56.320 --> 0:19:58.359 phone might surprise some people. They think like, oh, it 0:19:58.400 --> 0:20:02.600 should be lighter than the old iPhones because it's thinner. Um, 0:20:02.640 --> 0:20:05.119 it's about the same. Yeah, And some people think that 0:20:05.160 --> 0:20:07.199 the reason why it's about the same is because the 0:20:07.240 --> 0:20:10.560 battery is actually larger. So even though it's lost some 0:20:10.560 --> 0:20:14.640 some girth, it's it's still it's still the same way 0:20:14.680 --> 0:20:17.760 because the battery. Apple says that the battery will give 0:20:17.760 --> 0:20:22.720 you up to seven hours of talking time without without 0:20:22.840 --> 0:20:26.040 a need to recharge, or six hours of browsing if 0:20:26.080 --> 0:20:28.639 you're on a three G network, or ten hours of 0:20:28.640 --> 0:20:32.879 browsing if you're on WiFi, and over three hundred hours 0:20:32.920 --> 0:20:37.960 of standby power okay, which is pretty awesome. Ours Technical 0:20:38.040 --> 0:20:42.600 found about twenty five hours of general use, um video, 0:20:42.600 --> 0:20:46.679 about eleven and a half music about you know this 0:20:46.720 --> 0:20:49.440 is what this is what's kind of interesting because Apple's 0:20:49.640 --> 0:20:53.120 claims are way lower than those numbers. But I guess 0:20:53.160 --> 0:20:55.040 that's probably part of the thing is that you know, 0:20:55.080 --> 0:20:57.119 they don't want to make a claim and then have 0:20:57.200 --> 0:20:59.400 someone come out with it saying, oh, it's nowhere near 0:20:59.560 --> 0:21:02.120 that I and I wouldn't want to either. I understand 0:21:02.119 --> 0:21:04.399 why they would do that. The recharge cycle to that 0:21:04.480 --> 0:21:07.160 they found was about an hour and a half, which 0:21:07.200 --> 0:21:11.360 really not bad, not bad at that is phenomenal. I mean, 0:21:11.880 --> 0:21:14.640 you know what, as much as I've said, like I'm 0:21:14.640 --> 0:21:16.919 not really interested in getting an iPhone or whatever, the 0:21:16.960 --> 0:21:20.760 iPhone for a lot of the features have me interested in. 0:21:21.080 --> 0:21:23.399 I mean, I've thought about the potential of once my 0:21:23.440 --> 0:21:25.879 contract is up, moving to A T and T and 0:21:25.920 --> 0:21:28.879 getting an iPhone. Um, that would be a good segue 0:21:28.960 --> 0:21:32.040 because I was going to add this point. Yeah, Um, 0:21:32.200 --> 0:21:34.800 last night, the day that we're recording this, the rumors 0:21:34.800 --> 0:21:39.000 started breaking. Last night, Bloomberg business Week said that they 0:21:39.040 --> 0:21:44.560 had heard rumors that Apple might be bringing the iPhone 0:21:44.560 --> 0:21:47.960 for two Verizons network. Now we've heard departure from A 0:21:48.040 --> 0:21:50.200 T and T being the exclusive provider here in the 0:21:50.240 --> 0:21:52.680 United States right now, and we should we should point 0:21:52.680 --> 0:21:55.560 out a couple of things. First of all, uh, we 0:21:55.640 --> 0:21:57.800 are we well, first of all rumor. Second of all, 0:21:57.840 --> 0:22:00.959 we are aware that in other countries, the iPhone can 0:22:00.960 --> 0:22:04.920 be found on multiple carriers within certain countries, that's awesome here. 0:22:05.080 --> 0:22:06.920 Not in the United States. Yeah, in the United States, 0:22:07.000 --> 0:22:09.840 A T and T is the only network that that 0:22:09.880 --> 0:22:13.080 carries the iPhone. There was an exclusivity agreement that I 0:22:13.119 --> 0:22:16.159 had heard originally spanned five years, and it was signed 0:22:16.160 --> 0:22:18.200