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Gizmodo had it right: "We already showed you the new iPhone from every angle, inside and out. Today, Steve Jobs re-revealed it...", and they've made a comprehensive guide to all the features of the new iPhone 4.

• The hardware design is no different than the leaked version - black glass and stainless steel rim. But it's main feature is it's compacted size, about a third thinner than the iPhone 3GS, but jammed full of more...stuff, and weighs a couple grams more. And there are still split buttons for volume like the prototype. One big change is that the stainless steel rim acts as part of the antenna for 3G and Wi-Fi, theoretically bosting the phone's reception.

• Okay nerds, go to town on the specs: an A4 chip (just like the iPad), a Cortex-A8 main processor unit, a PowerVR SGX 535 for graphics, and a pair of 128MB DDR SDRAM chips. Whatever, right? Well, they're all on the same chip, and Apple claims it process data faster while consuming less battery.

• Speaking of, the battery is 16% bigger than the current one. Somehow that adds up to 40% more talk time, but I was never that good at PR math. More figures:
- talk over 3G: 7 hours
- browsing over 3G: 6 hours
- browsing over Wi-Fi: 10 hours
- video: 10 hours
- music: 40 hours
- stand-by mode : 300 hours.

• The display is a 3.5-inch multitouch screen with a 960 × 640 pixels resolution - that's four times as many pixels as the current iPhone 3GS' display. This IPS-based display (same as the iPad) has an 800-to-1 contrast ratio and a greater viewing angle. They're not saying it's HD (though it shoots in 720p, so the display has to match up), but that's what a lot are calling it. And like it's predecessors, the display has an oleophobic layer that makes it easier to clean. Oleophobic? Hey, I just pass the info on to you...

• There's a bigger sensor for the main camera, which is backlit and has bigger lenses too. The camera also has a LED-based flash for both for photographs and video. And when I said main camera, that's because the front facing one allows for video conferencing. It only syncs to other iPhone 4s over Wi-Fi, but outside developers could one day open that up to other phone users...but that is a huge killer app for now.

• But what about the built-in gyroscope, you ask? Yes, that's been improved for higher precision. Coupled with their accelerometer, it has "6-axis motion sensing". And I though there were only three dimensions.

• The phone runs iOS 4, their fancy i-before-everything name for the operating system. It does "selective multi-tasking", reducing resources while several applications are running. And with the new display, items automatically get scaled for the new resolution - that includes typography, 2D vector graphics, and 3D graphics.

• iMovie for the iPhone adds 1,500 new features, which is 1498 more than I can think are necessary. But you can cut newly shot video clips, add effects for still images, and even import music from your music library before uploading it starting at 360p (up to 720).

• How much will it set you back? You get a choice of colors - black or white, and 16GB will cost $199. The 32GB version is $299 - if you are a new user or you are eligible for an upgrade. Existing iPhone users can enjoy the early upgrade for will cost you $399 / $499, and non-contract, the phone is $599 / $699.

If you still have a tech hankerin' in your loins, they also have an article on what the iPhone 4 indicates in in the works for iPad 2.