Apple has announced today what everyone has been drooling over for months. That’s right, here comes the new iPhone 4, which will be available on June 24th (they most likely mean 2010).

Steve Jobs was the keynote speaker at the Worldwide Developers Conference, where he introduced the new iPhone 4. Before highlighting the new phone’s features, he said that it is “beyond a doubt, the most precise thing and one of the most beautiful things we’ve ever made.”

Here are some of the new features.

-24% thinner than previous iPhones.
-Five megapixel camera with LED flash
-Front-facing camera for conferencing
-720p HD video capabilities
-Available in black and white, at $199 for 16GB and $299 for 32GB
-Same great f’ing two-year AT&T contract (seriously, when does this madness end?)
-Gyroscope for six-axis motion sensing
-Talk time is up from 5 hours to 7 hours; 6 hours of 3G browsing; 10 hours of Wi-Fi browsing; 10 hours of video; 40 hours of music; and 300 hours of standby.

So there you have it. The new iPhone 4 is on its way. We’re sure it’s a very nice device and we’ll probably be upgrading to one in the next six months.

There have been a ton of third-party Twitter applications for the iPhone, but nothing officially from Twitter. Well, no longer! Twitter has unleashed their official app for the iPhone and it looks pretty sharp.

This is actually an upgraded version of Tweetie, which the company bought recently. But still, it’s pretty clean and easy to use. It’s also free of all the obnoxious ads and spam crap that can show up in other third-party apps.

But it’s got everything you could really want in a Twitter app. You can search tweets, make your posts, shrink your URL’s, pretty much everything you’d need Twitter for. And of course, it’s free. So you can go to iTunes or just use the search function on the app store on your iPhone to go ahead and download it.

I might do that right now. I’m sick of Twitteriffic.

According to CNET.com, the police are investigating Gizmodo after the tech blogging giant paid $5,000 to a guy who found an iPhone 4G in a Redwood City, CA bar. Apparently, it’s against the law to buy found property in California.

Apple has spoken to police about the incident and according to CNET.com’s source, the investigation is being spearheaded by a computer crime task force led by the Santa Clara County district attorney’s office.

According to the editor’s at Gizmodo, they explained that they paid $5,000 to someone who claimed to have found a new iPhone 4G. Yeah, we get that. That’s why you are being investigated. That’s exactly what the complaint is about.

The investigation is to determine whether or not sufficient evidence exists to file criminal charges. Gawker, Gizmodo’s parent company, said that no one had spoken to them about this yet.

Apple doesn’t let stuff like this go, so if it’s possible to pursue charges, we’re sure they’ll stay on it. Apparently, they have no interest in getting any positive stories out of Gizmodo ever again.

Some how, some way, Gizmodo.com came across an iPhone 4G, which so far no one has seen. Where did they find it? Lost in a Redwood City, CA bar. It was camouflaged to look like a 3G so no one would notice. But Gizmodo did, and they took it apart and analyzed it and determined that this is in fact, a rare prototype of an iPhone 4G. The packaging and final details may get tweaked, but this is it.

We could just re-write what Gizmodo said about the phone, or we can let them tell you directly:

What’s new

• Front-facing video chat camera
• Improved regular back-camera (the lens is quite noticeably larger than the iPhone 3GS)
• Camera flash
• Micro-SIM instead of standard SIM (like the iPad)
• Improved display. It’s unclear if it’s the 960×640 display thrown around before—it certainly looks like it, with the “Connect to iTunes” screen displaying much higher resolution than on a 3GS.
• What looks to be a secondary mic for noise cancellation, at the top, next to the headphone jack
• Split buttons for volume
• Power, mute, and volume buttons are all metallic
What’s changed

• The back is entirely flat, made of either glass (more likely) or ceramic or shiny plastic in order for the cell signal to poke through. Tapping on the back makes a more hollow and higher pitched sound compared to tapping on the glass on the front/screen, but that could just be the orientation of components inside making for a different sound
• An aluminum border going completely around the outside
• Slightly smaller screen than the 3GS (but seemingly higher resolution)
• Everything is more squared off
• 3 grams heavier
• 16% Larger battery
• Internals components are shrunken, miniaturized and reduced to make room for the larger battery

That’s a pretty sharp phone, now what is it going to cost me?

Yep, that’s right. There is a new DROID phone coming out and it’s called the DROID Incredible. The DROID was first available last November through Verizon and this latest Android phone will be coming out April 29th.

DROID Incredible features the newest version of HTC Sense with a seven-panel home screen for all your widgets. What’s more, it’s the first Verizon phone to use Qualcomm’s 1GHz Snapdragon processor and have an eight megapixel camera.

Sweet!

Features (that we essentially lifted from BestStuff.com….we love that site):

* Android 2.1 with HTC Sense experience
* 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor for maximum responsiveness
* Friend Stream for unified Flickr, Facebook and Twitter updates (yay!)
* “Leap” view for quick access to all seven home-screen panels
* Eight megapixel camera with dual-LED flash for better images
* 3.7 inch WVGA (480×800) AMOLED capacitive touch display
* Optical joystick for smooth navigation
* Dedicated, touch-sensitive Home, Menu, Back and Search keys
* Proximity sensor, light sensor and digital compass
* Integrated GPS
* Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g)
* 3.5 mm headset jack

You can pre-order your DROID Incredible at VerizonWireless.com. It’s priced at $199 after a $100 mail-in rebate (we hate those).

Isn’t this cute. An app from the web browser company Opera was approved by the Apple app store today and should be available for download later today or tomorrow. That’s right, a new web browser will be available for surfing on the iPhone. Don’t like Safari? No worries, help is on the way.

Opera claims that this web-browsing application will let you surf the web six times faster than with the standard Safari browser that is available on all iPhone and iTouche devices.

“We are delighted to offer iPhone and iPod Touch users a great browsing experience with the Opera Mini app,” said Lars Boilesen, CEO of Opera Software. “This app is another step toward Opera’s goal of bringing the Web to more people in more places.”

It comes as a bit of a surprise to us because Apple can be a bunch of Nazi’s when it comes to letting apps in that compete with Apple stuff. In this case, the Apple stuff is Safari. Maybe Apple is softening up a bit and willing to let competitors throw their hats in the ring. And…..maybe not. We have a feeling that they only reason they let this in is because either they don’t see it as a threat or they see some way to make money on it.

Well isn’t this cute. Apple has decided to remove the word “Google” from the search bar in the iPhone’s Safari browser. You know how when you put your search terms in you have to then hit the “Google” button to execute your search? Well, they are getting rid of that.

I guess we saw it coming. Google and Apple have been in a pissing match for some time now. Apple rejected Google’s Google Voice app. Google’s Android is supposed to compete with the iPhone’s OS. Google CEO Eric Schmidt stepped down off of Apple’s board of directors. You get the idea.

But now, Apple is apparently tweaking Google’s nips again by getting rid of the Google brand from Safari in the new iPhone OS 4.0. It could possibly be that Apple is actually considering a deal with Microsoft to make Bing the default search engine. We hope not, we aren’t huge on Bing.

Our bigger concern is that this spat between the two tech giants hinders the amount of cool stuff that we the consumer get. Please, Apple and Google, just play nice.

A recent market research study showed that smartphones that are based on Google Android have gained market share. In the months from December to February, Android phones have gained 5.2% during that time period while Palm and Microsoft platforms have seen their biggest losses.

Apple probably won’t flip out over this, but their market share dipped a tenth of a percentage point to 25.4% Then again, maybe that will totally set some Apple execs off, who knows? We would have to think that too much of a slip will be the final dagger that leads Apple to open up the iPhone to other service providers besides AT&T. As it is they are working on doing that.

Palm’s decline is a bit odd since their WebOS has gotten tremendous reviews. But when it comes to technology, we would have to think that Apple and Google are two of the top names in forward-thinking cool stuff.

Overall, 45.4 million people own smartphones now, which is up 21% from the previous three months. So, it would seem that the overall pie is growing and that should be a help to all involved.

On Monday, Apple announced that it would be holding a special, invite-only event to show off the latest version of the new iPhone OS. Leave it to Apple to pull this off right after the launch of the iPad.

The event on April 8th will allow everyone to “peek into the future of iPhone OS.” Hooray?

You can count on Macworld to provide you a blow-by-blow update of the event, which starts at 10 a.m. Pacific time. What new features will iPhone’s 4.0 OS have? Oh do tell!

Well isn’t this something? The new iPhone that is supposed to be released June has very few details. We’ve heard about it being the iPhone HD and having a forward-facing camera for teleconferencing, but information has been scarce.

Now, we hear that it’s been leaked that this new iPhone will be running a new build of Google Android. Wow. Didn’t see that coming.

With Apple’s exclusivity agreement with AT&T coming to a close, the company can start shopping their phone around to other carriers. We are expecting a Verizon version soon, and that should help the iPhone really pound the rest of the mobile market.

Neither Apple nor Google has been able to confirm the Android rumor. But, neither company is stupid and this could be huge for both of them.