"We are going to take the biggest leap since the original iPhone," Apple chief executive Steve Jobs said as he showed off the "iPhone 4" at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference here.
The iPhone 4 will go on sale on June 24 in Britain, France, Germany, Japan and the United States and will cost 199 dollars for the 16 gigabyte model and 299 dollars for the 32GB version.
The touchscreen smartphone, which comes in black and white versions, will be available in 18 other countries in July and 24 more in August.
The iPhone 4 includes more than 100 new features including a front-facing video camera to allow for video-conferencing between iPhones, a better still camera, an improved battery and a screen with significantly higher resolution.
To demonstrate the video chat program, called "FaceTime," Jobs, dressed in his trademark black turtleneck and blue jeans, called up Jonathan Ive, an Apple product designer, and held an iPhone-to-iPhone video conversation.
The iPhone 4 can also shoot and edit HD video. Randy Ubillos, Apple's chief architect for video applications, displayed an iMovie for iPhone video editing program available from Apple's App Store for 4.99 dollars.
Jobs touted the higher-resolution screen as a major leap forward. "There has never been a display like this on a phone," he said.
The 3.5-inch screen is the same size as on previous models but features 326 pixels per square inch, four times more pixels than the earlier iPhones.
The improved battery life allows for 40 percent more talk time, Jobs said, and the iPhone 4 -- at 9.3 millimeters or three-eighths of an inch -- is 24 percent thinner than the previous model, iPhone 3GS.
The iPhone 4, which runs on Apple's A4 processor, features a five-megapixel camera, an improvement on the previous three-megapixel camera.
Users will also have the option to use Microsoft's Bing as an Internet search engine in addition to Google and Yahoo! Google remains the default search engine.
Jobs joked that some of the attendees at the conference may have seen the iPhone 4 previously "because there have been a few photos around."
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