After falling behind the evolving technology, Apple has finally announced a phone that gives current devices a run for their money. Yes, this phone is exactly what Gizmodo revealed in the leak but Apple still had some tricks up its sleeve. Sure, I’m not going to buy the phone, but it’s really interesting to see how HTC or Motorola is going to combat this new phone. But what is exactly to make of all this Apple hype? In short, it’s all bullshit.

One thing is insanely awesome that can’t be matched: the screen, oh yes the resolution is fucking beautiful. This is the biggest improvement in the iPhone 4 in my opinion. Though, that’s mostly because the previous iPhones had horrible resolutions. Needless to say, this resolution can’t even be matched by the HTC Evo. However, Apple is marketing this as being 4 times better than the 3GS, which is true. However I can easily say my phone is 4 times better than the iPhone as well. Hell, my XPERIA has over 300 DPI as well, thoughthats because the screen and resolution are smaller.

Apple finally jumped onto the video conferencing bandwagon as well. They’re not the first, though they are trying to act like they are. Followers of Apple were quick to say that Apple is the first company to do it correctly. I’m sorry, but how is restricting it over WiFi “doing it correctly?” Say you want to make a video call, you have to notify the person you are calling “hey man, I’m gonna videocall you, can you get on your WiFi?” That is just one inconvenient step, adding to the fact that you can only call iPhone to iPhone using the FaceTime software. Back on my XPERIA, I’m able to make a video call to anyone else that has a video camera on their phone. Asians and Europeans have been doing this for ages, why is America falling behind on this?

Apple also introduced a LED flash on the back of the camera, giving some reason that it’s awesome for low lighting. Newsflash Apple, phones have had this for ages. Just because you finally have it doesn’t make it a revolutionary new feature. Want something revolutionary? The Nokia N8 has a fucking 12 megapixel camera with a Xeon flash. It’s really something. Apple demoed how you can edit the video taken by the camera using an app called iMovie (which is not actually included with the iPhone and you have to pay $5 to get it. Apparently this is supposed to give you a rich experience in editing movies. What I say is, just plug the phone in and edit the videos with the desktop version of iMovie. The mouse will really help.

Apple had some problems with Cisco before for using their name for “iPhone” and now Apple borrowed from Cisco again by using iOS. That’s not the only problem Apple had with naming issues. Apple had to purchase “FaceTime” as well. In my opinion, the name FaceTime is stupid. Why would Apple go out of their way to acquire the name? Would a simple name like “Video Call” be good enough? It seems pretty inconsistent to have FaceTime as the video call but not have AudioTime as the regular calling name.

There were some laughs to be had during the press conference. During the keynote Steve Jobs had problems connecting to the WiFi on the new phone. He asked everyone to turn off the WiFi in their laptops. I found it pretty funny. When he still couldn’t get it to work, he asked for suggestions and some guy yelled out “VERIZON!” This was a very awesome moment in the press conference.

But I’m going to admit, this is a pretty fancy phone and it’s bound to bring in some great competition. It just frustrates me how Macfags try to ignore how the iPhone didn’t have the features for the last couple of years while other phones did and now that they do then the phone is the greatest thing ever. But whether you love or hate Apple we can come to the conclusion that Farmville sucks.

Also, fuck MicroSIM.