After getting my hands on iPhone4 here in Singapore through M1’s preorder, and queuing 2 hours+ just to collect it, here is a list of my comments after using it for almost 2 weeks:
1) It feels solid, holding it in my hands just feels more right than my old iPhone3G. It is not heavy, and putting it beside my old iPhone3G makes the old iPhone looks more plastic.
2) The retina display is really awesome. Again putting it side by side with my old iPhone3G, the colours on iPhone4 seem to be brighter, sharper and generally more pleasing to the eye.
3) Battery Life. With the iPhone4, I started using it as my main phone. Using it for work daily, I must say the battery life is really much better than my old iPhone3G, but still way behind my 2 year old Nokia N97.
4) The iPhone4 runs all my applications much faster. Using the Whatsapp application on iPhone3G was painful, with me typing faster than the words appearing. With the iPhone4, everything is so much faster. Playing Godfinger, for example, was so less frustrating than before.
5) HD video recording. It is really incredible, the video quality was top notch, and really impressive.
6) The Apple’s death grip problem? It really exists. I have tested this in a few locations in Singapore. But since the coverage in Singapore is generally pretty good, this is not a serious problem. I have yet to encounter any drop calls because of this.
Suffice to say, iPhone4 should have been the phone that Apple releases originally, instead of waiting 2 generations for it.
