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Apple gives iPhone 4 the gesture Bernard Cole Cupertino, Ca. – Looking to stay one or more steps ahead of its numerous smartphone competitors, Apple Inc. has added a three-axis microelectromechanical system (MEMS) based gyroscope capability to give its new iPhone 4 more gestural control options. . By the 2010 holiday season, it is expected that all the major handset vendors will announce gyro-enabled smartphones. Gyroscopes enable much more responsive user interfaces by allowing various motions to control action. Such features are now standard on gaming platforms such as Nintendo's MotionPlus add-on for its Wii video game controller. The new gyro feature will now allow the iPhone to recognize detailed gestures—such as air-signing a check--as well as allow its use as a 3D mouse when controlling a computer mouse or large screen TV. Other MEMS and capacitive sensors added to the new iPhone 4 will further enhance motion processing including a proximity sensor akin to Wii's sensor-bar, an ambient light sensor and dual noise-canceling-silicon microphones. Leading the 100 new features listed by Apple for its new iPhone 4 was the new iOS 4 operating system, which includes multitasking for the first time, and the fact that the iPhone is sharing the same processor as its iPad—the proprietary A4. The new iPhone 4 is a tenth of an inch slimmer and thinner, but actually weighs two grams more. Its new screen has twice the old resolution (960-by-640 at 326 pixels per inch). Battery life has also been extended with "40 percent more talk time" claimed. Average talk time is now up from five hours to seven hours per charge, or you can do six hours of browsing over 3G networks or 10 hours of browsing over Wi-Fi. 40 hours of music playback and 300 hours on standby keeps it awake for over 12 days. Two new digital cameras up the pixel count for stills to 5 megapixels from 3 megapixels in the iPhone 3G, adds an opposite side camera for video conferencing, can record HD video and works with a new movie app from the desktop world—iMovie for iPhone. To learn more, go to www.apple.com.
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