Bytes - iPhone 4 available END JULY in Hong Kong and Singapore!

If you must have it before everyone else then get your new iPhone 4 from the US, France, Germany, Japan and the UK on June 24. Pre-orders start Tuesday, June 15 from the Apple Online Store or reserve an iPhone 4 to pick up at an Apple Retail Store there. Wait a few weeks till end July and get it in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.

What's there not to like? This penultimate in phone technology and design has FaceTime Video Calling, Retina Display, 5 Megapixel Camera and HD Video Recording, it offers the highest resolution display ever built into a phone, resulting in super crisp text, images and video. Enjoy up to 40 percent longer talk time and a beautiful all-new design of glass and stainless steel that makes it the thinnest smartphone in the world. Equipped with iOS 4, the newest version of the world’s most advanced mobile operating system, this includes over 100 new features and 1500 new APIs for developers. iOS 4 features Multitasking, Folders, enhanced Mail, deeper Enterprise support and Apple’s new iAd mobile advertising platform.

Like the iPad, the new iBooks® app will be available for iPhone 4 as a free download from the App Store and includes Apple’s new iBookstore which will sync your current place in a book, along with any bookmarks, highlights and notes you have created, between copies of the same book on your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch®. iBooks users can also now read and store PDFs right in iBooks. There are now over 60,000 books available in the iBookstore, and users have downloaded over five million books in the first two months.

Available in either black or white, the phone will cost US$199 for the 16GB model and US$299 for the 32GB model. iMovie for iPhone will be available on the App Store for just US$4.99. Note that these are the US prices excluding tax.

- Elaine