Steve Jobs took to the stage a short time ago at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco.  While much of the fourth generation iPhones secrets were already known through a controversial Gizmodo expose, we didn't have the details until now.  So here's the confirmation of the specs along with some surprises too - check out our iPhone v4 cheat sheet for everything you need to know down the pub tonight...

Prices - $199 16GB, $299 32GB | Available 24th June - Pre-order from 15th June (Inc UK)

Hardware

• Powered by Apple A4 CPU (same as iPad)
  
• IPS (in-plane switching) Screen - 960 x 640 - 326 DPI - 4x the pixel density of 3GS
• 800:1 Contrast ratio - 4x better than 3GS
• 802.11n Wi-Fi
  
• 40% More Talk time with new battery
• Glass Front & Back
• New Front Facing Camera - 'FaceTime' Video Calling (Wi-Fi only for now)
• Rear Camera - 5MP (with backside illuminated sensor)
  
• HD Video Recording - 720P @ 30FPS
  
• Rear LED Flash
• 24% Thinner than iPhone 3GS
  
• Micro Sim Tray
• 2nd Mic for Noise cancellation
  
• Stainless Steel band around phone incorporates antennas
• three-axis gyroscope - Gaming?
• Up to 32GB of Flash Storage (no 64GB option)
• Available in Black or White
• 3GS stays at $99

'FaceTime' Video Chat

Other Stuff iMovie for the iPhone ($4.99)  - Record, edit and send HD video all on the iPhone iPhoneOS renamed iOS - Sensible with the iPad (Apple TV?) using same OS now  Multi-Tasking (Pseudo MTing - we remain to be convinced) Unified Inbox EMail threading Folders 'Deeper' Enterprise Support Bing! added as a search option iBooks coming to iPhone - Syncs place etc across all devices iBooks gains PDF support iAds switched on July 1st

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written by Dusted , June 07, 2010

meh... count me out.

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written by Lemmy , June 07, 2010

Love it! Will be in the Q on launch day

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written by Gary Meek , June 07, 2010

Wow, it almost does what an N95 could do 3 years ago :p

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written by CJUK , June 07, 2010

thanks, for posting, that was useful ...

'looks a useful evolution / quality update, too ... the noise cancellation could be helpful (we not infrequently find noise can ruin call clarity, with our iPhone 3Gs) ... ditto the better screen (we sometimes watch TV, live & recorded, via WiFi & EyeTV from an Elgato dual-tuner stick, so the screen resolution improvement will be v.welcome - hopefully there'll be a corresponding EyeTV update soon, to bring export formats into line ...

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written by Hutchy , June 08, 2010

LMAO at Nokia fan-boy Gary above !

This thing leads the world. Comparing it to some half-cocked, buggy as hell, battery eating, train wreck UI, 20th century hardware, makes you look pretty stupid.

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written by CJUK , June 08, 2010

guess the N8 / Symbian 3 will be the Nokia competitor to this new iPhone - due out third quarter, some places, they say - 'though our experience with the E61/ Symbian 60 we had before iPhone wasn't good (UI / features really working / updateability), so not sure ...

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written by Vex , June 08, 2010

Ordered mine at 10pm through a friend who works at one of the mobile operators.

Just as well really, I've just supplied him £1500 worth of surround sound speakers at cost.

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written by Vex , June 08, 2010

I can't see anything about AppleTV though, did I miss it or was it not there at all.

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