iPhone · Standard
2010
iPhone 4
Retina, FaceTime, and a new glass-and-steel industrial design reset the iPhone form.
- Announced
- 2010-06-07
- Family
- iPhone
- Branch
- Standard
- Historical weight
- Paradigm shift
Key specifications
Apple verification ↗- Display
- 3.5" Retina LCD, 960×640 (326 ppi)
- Chip / CPU
- Apple A4 · 800 MHz
- Memory
- 512 MB
- Base storage
- 16 GB
- Ports & charging
- 30-pin dock, 3.5 mm
- Weight
- 137 g
- Dimensions
- 115.2×58.6×9.3 mm
- Original OS
- iOS 4
- Launch price
- $599
- Released
- June 24, 2010
- Discontinued
- September 2013
- Graphics
- PowerVR SGX535
- CPU cores
- 1
Generation delta
What changed?
Introduced
2- Display
Retina display
The higher-density Retina display sharply increased perceived text and image detail.
- Communication
FaceTime
A front-facing camera and FaceTime made video calling a core iPhone capability.
Changed
1- Industrial design
Glass-and-steel design
The curved plastic-backed form gave way to a thin glass-and-stainless-steel sandwich.
Technology DNA
Ideas carried by this generation.
Canonical predecessor
iPhone 3GS iPhone 4