Apple has released iOS 4.0.1 for iPhone. Looks like the rumors were true. Go grab it and enjoy your new bars. Let us know if it fixes any other problems you might have been having.

Today is a great day for all iPhone consumers in the world, as Apple presented their new revolutionary and thin smartphone, the iPhone 4.

Featuring FaceTime, thanks to which the dream of video calling is made into a reality, the iPhone 4 comes with a new stunning Retina display with the highest resolution display ever to be built into a smartphone, thus providing the most stunning and crisp text, photos and videos. In addition to all those neat features, the iPhone 4 also comes with a five megapixel camera plus LED Flash and HD Video Recording. The processor of the iPhone 4 is the Apple A4 processor, and it also features a three-axis gyro plus up to forty percent longer call/talk time. All of these great features will come into a beautiful and stunning all-new visual look of the phone – a new glass and stainless steel design – the thinnest smartphone ever to be made.

iPhone 4 will be based on the newest version of the most advanced operating system for mobile devices in the world, the iOS 4, featuring Multitasking, Folders, Enhanced Mail, Deeper Enterprise support and the new iAd mobile advertising platform from Apple. The iOS 4 includes over one hundred all-new features and one-thousand and five-hundred new APIs for the talented developers around the world.

The all-new and thin iPhone 4 is expected to be available in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany and Japan on the 24th of June. The smartphone will first arrive in the United States for the price of $199 with a two year contract.

CEO of Apple, Steve Jobs, stated that the iPhone 4 is the biggest leap since the original iPhone, and that FaceTime video calling sets a new standard for mobile communication. He also stated that their new Retina display is the highest resolution display ever in a phone; with the text looking like it does on a fine printed page. Steve Jobs was very happy to say that they have been dreaming about both of these breakthroughs for decades.

With FaceTime, you can make a regular voice all and a video call anywhere where Wi-Fi is floating. You can even switch the cameras with just one tap, instantly, to show your friend what you are seeing.

The 3.5 inch Retina Display of the Apple iPhone 4 is four times as many pixels as the iPhone 3GS and seventy-eight percent of the pixels on the Apple iPad – approximately 960 x 640 pixels. The human eye is even unable to see the individual pixels on the phone while held at a normal distance with the resulting 326 pixels per inch, thus making the text, images and video look smoother, realistic and sharper than ever before.

The all-new smartphone, Apple iPhone 4, is the thinnest smarthphone ever with its 9.3 millimeters. The front and back of the smartphone are made from aluminosilcate glass which is chemically strengthened to be thirty times harder that plastic. It is also more scratch resistant and more durable than ever before, making the life of one iPhone 4 longer. The iPhone is encircled by a highly finished stainless steel band which is made from a custom alloy. It is forged to be five times stronger and durable than the standard steel.

The iPhone 4 will come with a five megapixel camera featuring autofocus, a 5x digital zoom, a backside illuminated sensor and a built-in LED flash which will allow you to take amazing shots even in dark environments and rooms with low light. Every iPhone 4 has also a built-in three-axis gyro that provide a six-axis motion sensing when combined with the accelerometer, making it perfect for gaming. The new handy iPhone 4 operating system by apple, iOS 4, will make sure you can customize and arrange your information in your own style. You can now instantly switch between applications with the Multitasking feature, and also organize the applications into collections by simple making a directory “Folder”, and dragging them there. You will also be able to customize your home screen with an array of supplied wallpapers.

The iPhone 4 will come in black or white colors, and will be available in the United States first, for the suggested retail price of $199 for the 16GB model with a two year contract. The 32GB model will be at the price of $299. The Apple iPhone 4 is expected to be released in the United States, Germany, France, Japan and the United Kingdom on the 24th of June, 2010. Customers can also pre-order the smartphone beginning on the 15th of June, 2010.

The Apple iPhone 4 will also be released around the world in 88 countries by the end of September.

Apple previewed its iPhone® OS 4 software and released a beta version of the software to iPhone Developer Program members. The iPhone OS 4 beta release includes an updated Software Development Kit (SDK) with over 1,500 new Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and over 100 new features that will be available to iPhone and iPod touch® users this summer. New features include Multitasking for third party apps; Folders to better organize and access apps; improved Mail with a unified inbox, fast inbox switching and threaded messages; enhanced Enterprise support with even better data protection, mobile device management, wireless app distribution and more; Apple’s new iAd mobile advertising platform; and iBooks, the delightful new ebook reader and online bookstore recently debuted on the iPad™.

“iPhone OS 4 is the fourth major release of the world’s most advanced mobile operating system,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “We’re delivering over 100 new features, including multitasking, folders, a unified inbox, deeper Enterprise support, and an iPhone version of our iBooks reader and online iBookstore.”

iPhone OS 4’s new multitasking offers users a new way to quickly move between apps, and provides developers seven new multitasking services to easily add multitasking features to their apps. These services include background audio, so apps like Pandora can play music in the background, and VoIP, so VoIP apps can receive a VoIP call even when the iPhone is asleep or the user is running other apps. iPhone OS 4 provides multitasking to third party apps while preserving battery life and foreground app performance, which has until now proved elusive on mobile devices.

Folders help users better organize and quickly access their apps. Simply drag one app icon onto another, and a new folder is automatically created. The folder is automatically given a name based on the App Store category of that app, such as “Games,” which the user can easily rename. Using folders, users can now organize and access over 2,000 apps on their iPhone. Users can also create and manage iPhone folders on their Mac® or PC using iTunes® 9.2.

iPhone OS 4 delivers the best mail experience on a mobile phone with its new Unified Inbox, allowing users to see messages from all their email accounts displayed together in a single inbox. With just a few taps, users can quickly switch between inboxes to see messages from any single account. In addition, users can now thread their messages by conversation, making it easier to stay on top of email discussions, as well as open email attachments with compatible apps from the App Store.

iAd, Apple’s new mobile advertising platform, combines the emotion of TV ads with the interactivity of web ads. Today, when users click on mobile ads they are almost always taken out of their app to a web browser, which loads the advertiser’s webpage. Users must then navigate back to their app, and it is often difficult or impossible to return to exactly where they left. iAd solves this problem by displaying full-screen video and interactive ad content without ever leaving the app, and letting users return to their app anytime they choose. iPhone OS 4 lets developers easily embed iAd opportunities within their apps, and the ads are dynamically and wirelessly delivered to the device. Apple will sell and serve the ads, and developers will receive an industry-standard 60 percent of iAd revenue.

The iPhone OS 4 beta release includes a developer preview of Game Center, which contains a set of APIs that allows developers to create apps with the ability to invite friends to play a game, start a multiplayer game through matchmaking and track achievements and compare high scores on a leader board. Apps created with GameKit APIs will work with Game Center, Apple’s new social gaming network available to iPhone and iPod touch users later this year.

New enterprise features in iPhone OS 4 include improvements in security, scalability and compatibility. The new Mobile Device Management service can be integrated with third party servers to wirelessly configure, query and even wipe or lock managed iPhones, and iPhone OS 4 enables enterprises to securely host and wirelessly distribute their own in-house developed apps to employees. The new Data Protection feature uses a user’s passcode as an encryption key to protect mail messages and attachments stored on the iPhone. iPhone OS 4 now provides the option to set a longer, more complex passcode, making iPhone and its data even more secure. iPhone OS 4 allows IT managers to set up multiple Exchange ActiveSync accounts, is compatible with Exchange Server 2010 and includes support for forthcoming SSL VPN applications from Juniper Networks and Cisco.

Today, more than four billion apps have been downloaded from the revolutionary App Store and more than 185,000 apps are available to consumers in 90 countries. Over 85 million iPhone and iPod touch users around the world can choose from an incredible range of apps in 20 categories, including games, business, news, sports, health, reference and travel.

Source: Apple

For IPhone and iPod touch owners – time has come to update your movie information. If you are true cineastes or simply love to be aware of a new coming movie to watch for the weekend – then a newly released IMDb (Internet Movie Database) app is exactly what you need.

The IMDb app consists of three parts: Movies, TV and People.  As for movies, they include Showtime, Coming Soon, US Box Office Results, MOVIEmeter (i.e. top 250 movies rated lists). TV sections include US TV Tonight and US TV Recaps (this section is especially convenient for those who’ve missed their favorite show or would like to see what happened in the previous show series). People section consists of Starmeter and Born Today. Starmeter is remarkable for ranking the 25 most-searched stars on IMDb. Each star page is filled with photos, detailed bio, fun trivia and quotes, and so on.

Besides, this app will take up very small room in the drive space of your device (only 1/2 MB).

The only bad news is that you won’t be able to leave comments, rate movies or see and update your personal lists.

But on the other hand by using your GPS location you can find the top movie showing in your city with all relevant details.

And finally, this app is available for free for all iPhone and iPod touch in the App store.

Week one of the Smartphone Round Robin is over and week two begins tomorrow. We’ve just scratched the surface here and already we’ve run the gamut from a Windows Mobile user examining webOS to a BlackBerry user having an encounter with the Droid. If you have a Smartphone need, we’re pretty confident that the Round Robin will help you find out how to fill it.

We could go on, but there’s egg nog to be spiked and presents to be wrapped, so hit up the updates page for a list of reviews by platform and hit this post up after the break for the best of Smartphone Experts this week.

Look what we have here — some great news for AT&T as it snags first place in Gizmodo’s 12 city 3G data test. (Just like their latest commercial claims.) The 12 cities are as follows: Maui, Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New York, Phoenix, Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, and Tampa.

When it comes to being number 1, AT&T hasn’t always been this lucky (remember a little something called customer satisfaction?) Perhaps this is a sign of good things to come and maybe, just maybe, some of that anger and hatred AT&T has gotten in the past will turn into a positive vibe.

“It was measurably faster, however, download-wise, in 6 of the 12 markets where we tested, and held a significantly higher national average than the other carriers. Only Verizon came close, winning 4 of the 12 markets. For downloads, AT&T and Verizon came in first or second in nine markets, and in whatever location we tested, both AT&T and Verizon 3G were consistently present. If you’re wondering about upload speeds, AT&T swept the contest, winning 12 for 12.”

Personally, I’ve tested speeds with my AT&T and Verizon lines respectively and get the same results here in Chicago. AT&T’s 3G data speeds always come out on top in both uploading and downloading.

Love AT&T or hate them, these results are somewhat impressive.

[Via Gizmodo]