- Sega released a new video of Vanquish for PS3 and Xbox 360, which shows the basic gameplay.
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- Apple has officially announced iPhone 4 will launch on June 24, which will have a 5MP camera with LED flash and 720p/30fps video recording, there will be a front VGA camera for video calling FaceTime, here are the specs of the iPhone 4.
Dimension: 4.5" height x 2.31" width x 0.37 depth, 137g weight
Location: Assisted GPS, Digital Compress, Wi-Fi, Cellular
Power: Talk time up to 7 hours on 3G, 14 hours on 2G, Standby up to 300 hours
Internet use up to 6 hours on 3G, 10 hours on Wi-Fi
Video playback up to 10 hours, Audio playback up to 40 hours
- iPhone 4 will be available in US (AT&T), UK (Vodafone, Orange, O2), France, Germany and Japan on June 24, the 16GB model will be for $199 and 32GB model will be for $299. The existing iPhone 3GS 8GB will be reduced to $99, but 3GS 16GB will remain unchanged. iPhone 4 will launch in Canada and other countries sometimes in July.
- Apple said the updated Safari 4 for iPhone will have 30% performance improvement over the previous version, Bing will be one of the preloaded search engine options.
- Engadget reported that Apple's iWork Suite will be coming to iPhone, users will be able to open emails in iWork's keynote.
- iBooks will be coming to iPhone and iPod Touch, allowing users to purchase eBooks online. iPad currently holds 22% share of ebook sales.
- Netflix announced its video streaming service will be coming to iPhone in summer with 3G streaming capabilities, and it also seamlessly switching between networks.
- Activision announced Guitar Hero is now available on App Store for $2.99, featuring tunes from Queen and The Rolling Stones, there will be additional track packs soon.
- iMovie will be coming to iPhone for $4.99, which allows user to perform sophisticated video editing.
- Apple announced the iPhone OS 4 has been renamed to iOS4, which will launch on June 21 with 1500 new features, including selective multitasking, unified inbox, app folders and data detectors. iOS4 will automatically redraw text and controls of existing iPhone apps in iPhone 4's high res display. iOS trademark is licensed from Cisco.
- iOS4 will be available for iPhone 3G, 3GS and iPod Touch 2G for free. However, iPhone 3G will not have multitasking function and iPod Touch 1G is unsupported.
- Apple mentioned that the video calling feature FaceTime will be available in WiFi only at the moment, it supports open standards like SIP, H.264 and AAC.
