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Reviewing iPhone 4 is a challenge. It has been hailed by Apple as the greatest leap forward since the original iPhone 2G and dismissed by critics as just another iterative rehash. iPhone 4 has a new look. Polished stainless steel bound by sleekly laminated layers of glass, it harkens back to the heydays of Leica and Braun and might just be the iPhone Apple has always dreamed of making. Yet having glass front and back and the antenna array banded along the side could end up being as much functional loss as it is form win.
iPhone 4 also ships with Apple's latest software, iOS 4. It brings features such as multitasking and folders, unified inbox and threaded email, and FaceTime video calling. Each of these come with limitations however, that while making them nearly effortless for new users to pick up, ensure power users will retain a level of frustration with the platform.
Like every one of Apple's iOS products before it, iPhone 4 is going to be as divisive and controversial as it is popular and passionately embraced. Some of you will be looking at it, iPhone 3GS, 3G, or even 2G still in hand, wondering if its worth the upgrade. Others may be looking across from Android or BlackBerry, webOS or Windows Phones, trying to figure out if its finally time to make the switch (or come back).
So is it? Read on as TiPb goes hands-on with Apple's latest hardware and software to help you decide.
Update: The Verizon iPhone 4 has finally shipped and there are some differences and new options. Check out our full Verizon iPhone Review for all the details!
iPhone 4 hardware
Where previous iPhones have become iconified as singular slabs, iPhone 4 takes it to the next level - flat, curved but with an edge, and -- of course -- obsessively thin.
That's 0.37 inches (9.3 mm) thin for the spec fans among us, at 4.5 inches (115.2 mm) high and 2.31 inches (58.6 mm) wide and weighing in at the same 4.8 ounces (137 grams) as the iPhone 3GS. It looks flat out sexy and it feels fine to hold even if Apple has once again made no concessions towards grip -- as we said it's all stainless steel and glass.
Along the sides you'll find the few, familiar buttons and ports -- 3.5mm headset (still flush), noice-canceling mic, sleep/wake button, microSIM card slot (along the side now), speaker, 30-pin dock connector, phone mic, volume up and down buttons (separate now, not a rocker), and the ring/silent switch. On the front, below the screen (which we'll get to in a moment) is the home button. Above the screen is the ear speaker and the new front-facing, VGA (640x480) camera. On the back is the new 5 megapixel still, 720p video camera and LED flash.
Retina Display
Beneath the front layer of that glass is what Apple is calling Retina Display, a ridiculously dense 960x640 screen resolution. That's four times as many pixels packed into the same 3.5 inch (88.9 mm) diagonal space as the iPhone 3GS (and every previous iPhone). At 326 ppi (pixels per inch), it's higher than the print quality of many color publications and while scientists will debate the exactitude of Apple's branding to our eyes the only thing that matters is -- no more pixels.
We're not going to get into the debate about whether or not 326 ppi is a truly a retina-exceeding display -- Georgia has covered that debate -- but here's an attempt to simulate the difference strictly for the purpose of this review.
We took similar screenshots with both the iPhone 3GS and the iPhone 4 and then scaled up the the iPhone 3GS to 200% using "nearest neighbor" to keep the edges from smoothing. On a 72/96 ppi computer screen the difference will look far more dramatic than it really is but for small details like the icons in a folder or tiny text on a web page, the difference is noticeable.
Much like Apple's design trend has been to minimize the machine and leave only the display as a window into the web and apps, Retina Display takes that even further, it turns the display into a window. The grid is gone and you see only the content. It's both subtle and profound and you might not notice the difference until the next time you see tiny text on a lesser display. iPhone 4 is simply more like looking at a glossy magazine or analog movie screen that piece of electronics.
Like with the recent iMac and the iPad, Apple is using LED with IPS, which are a couple of acronyms that net out to rich colors, deep blacks, and a very wide viewing angle. You can watch movies or read text even if you're looking at it almost sideways. Most impressive.
Previous generations of iPhone held on to the 480x320 display while competing devices went to 800x480 (or 854x480 in the case of the newly announced Droid X), iPhone 4 leapfrogs to the top again. And by making the new 960x640 resolution precisely quadruple the old one, they've ensured legacy apps will look exactly the same as on an iPhone 3GS (no iPad style jaggies) and new apps specifically design for iPhone 4 will look significantly sharper.
It's a huge step up from previous iPhones and from any other display currently on the market.
The downside to all that glass is that it could scratch, chip, or even break. Dieter's iPhone 4 somehow suffered a hairline scratch on the first weekend. Since it's glass on both sides, it also increases the odds that, if you drop it, glass will take the impact.
With the display now laminated to the screen, you'll have to replace the whole assembly if that ever happens. Consider extra insurance or a case or body skin if you're at all worried. However, the benefit of that lamination is that there is no space at all between the LCD and the outer glass, which makes the display look better and should completely eliminate dust appearing in that space.
We should also note there were initial reports of yellow splotches on some screens. This could be the result of the laminate glue not having had time to properly cure. Running the display on high brightness and waiting a couple days is supposed to render it clear. That seems to be the case but we're going to wait a while before scratching it off our watch list.
While the iPhone has always had a very popular camera, it would be polite to say it hasn't always had a very high quality camera. The iPhone 3GS took a step forward with 3 megapixels, tap-to-focus, and much better auto white-balance and imaging software. It was good enough to outperform other camera phone with higher pixel counts but was starting to show its age as Nokia and Android hit the 8mp mark.
iPhone 4 shows that Apple is not only making an effort to keep up now, but is actively working to take their camera to another level.
Rather than chopping up their sensor even more to join the aforementioned megapixel race, Apple went with a more modest increase to 5mp but increased the size and quality of the sensor, and added back illumination at the same time. That means each pixel is bigger and better at absorbing light which translates into higher quality images, especially at low light. (And they even threw in an LED flash for good measure.)
Here are some photos taken by Dieter and Leanna.
- See more of Dieter's photos
- See more of Leanna's photos
It's not perfect -- whites are sometimes blown out, the 5x digital zoom is still a digital zoom, and it won't match a high quality point-and-shoot, much less DSLR -- but it's still amongst the best cameras we've seen on a phone to date. That, combined with what seems like even better software and the convenience of convergence means many people will be leaving their point-and-shoot camera at home.
Another product that doesn't look like it's long for this world is the Flip Mino HD. iPhone 4's 720p, 30fps video looks good enough, thanks to the same tap-to-focus and white-balancing software, that anything under a proper 1080p prosumer video camera can mostly be left at home. (Mostly because video recording drains battery and eats up storage, so if you're planning to shoot a lot on the go you'll need a way to recharge and to transfer old video off to make room for new.)
Here's some video Leanna recorded (crushed by YouTube compression, of course, but hit the 720p button for best-we-can-get quality).
And here's some in low-light with the LED. (It can be turned on and left on for video work).
iPhone 4 also features a front-facing camera. It is considerably smaller than the beast of a lens on the rear, the front-facing camera is intended mainly for VGA quality self-portraits (hello new profile pics!) and video, like for Apple's new FaceTime feature. (More on that below.)
Stainless steel antenna band
When the first leaked images of iPhone 4 appeared many people doubted they were the real-thing since the black gaps in the otherwise polished steel band around the outside looked so decidedly un-Apple. At WWDC 2010 Steve Jobs revealed that the band was actually the main structural element of the phone -- and an external antenna array. The black gaps were the separations between the Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and GPS antenna and the GSM/UTMS cellular radio antenna.
While Apple often says great form is functional, seldom do they let functionality trump form to this extent, so we figured it must be important. And it is. Many people report better reception with the iPhone 4... unless they touch it on the lower left side, making a connection between two of those antennas with their hand.
It's not happening to everyone (at TiPb we're split -- for example Dieter can reproduce it at will, Jeremy doesn't have it at all) and we don't yet know how widespread it is or whether it can be fixed by a software update, but -- for a lot of people if you hold iPhone four in your left hand or otherwise create a connection between the two antennas on the left side, the network (voice and/or data) can drop from full bars to none almost immediately.
Areas with strong signal, especially outside, seem to have fewer problems than areas with weak signals, especially inside. Apple has, incomprehensibly, suggested users learn to "hold different" or use a case that insulates the area.
Suffice it to say those aren't acceptable answers, so we'll just have to wait and see what happens next.
Call quality overall is quite good. If you're not bridging those antennas, reception is markedly better than previous iPhones and dropped calls slightly better.
Apple lists the radios as UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA (850, 900, 1900, 2100 MHz), GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz), 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi (802.11n 2.4GHz only), and Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR wireless technology.
Pentaband cellular is a great addition. Unfortunately, it doesn't include T-Mobile US 3G, but the extra bands will certainly be appreciated by networks in the Asia-Pacific areas that use them.
Likewise, fast, far reaching 802.11n is an appreciable upgrade somewhat crippled by being restricted to the more congested 2.4GHz frequency. Most 802.11n routers give the roomier 5GHz range as an option. It's too bad Apple didn't do the same.
Speaker and mics
For a company whose heritage is the iPod, the iPhone has never blown us away with its speakers. They've lacked loudness to the degree that some users took needles to previous models in desperate attempt to get the sound out. (We didn't recommend it, still don't.)
We're glad to report that iPhone 4 sounds better and louder to us. The speaker phone, while still not booming, is far more usable than any of its predecessors. The ear speaker also seems louder and make stereo gaming a noticeably more enjoyable experience.
It is worth noting that the speaker is still recessed on the bottom and so holding the iPhone in a natural position for games - which is to say horizontally - can cause the speaker to be almost entirely muffled by your hand.
Noise cancellation is very, very impressive, the best we've heard on any phone or Bluetooth headset. Even with very loud music in the background, callers report that they can hear us loud and clear.
Unfortunately, performance with Bluetooth headsets and Bluetooth car stereos lags behind other phones -- sound quality is slightly robotic.
Apple has considerably beefed up iPhone 4's internal specs, most notably by including the ARM Cortex A8 and PowerVR SGX-based Apple A4 system-on-a-chip that debuted in the iPad. It's unclear whether or not the iPhone 4's A4 is clocked at the same 1GHz as the iPad's, whether its under-clocked to save on power and reduce thermal output, or whether it can dynamically adjust its speed to strike a balance between demands and constraints.
Apple's not saying and for most of us none of that really matters. It feels snappy and transitions with a silky smoothness that trumps the already impressive iPhone 3GS and gives the much larger iPad a run for its money -- both in performance and battery life.
Using both the A4 and the smaller microSIM standard, Apple has made the battery 14% bigger and made some aggressive claims as to just how long and how hard you can push your iPhone 4: up to 7 hours talk time on 3G, 14 hours on 2G, and 300 hours on standby. Internet is rated at 6 hours on 3G and 10 hours on Wi-Fi. Video playback is said to match the iPad's 10 hours (!) while audio reaches 40 hours.
We've only had the iPhone 4 in our power hungry hands for a couple of days now and battery life can fluctuate especially when you're dealing with a new device. That said, in our decidedly unscientific tests it lasted longer than our iPhone 3GS and we'll be putting it through its paces to see just how well it holds up over the days, weeks, and months ahead. (And we'll update with our findings).
Something Apple didn't mention but tear downs have subsequently and joyously revealed are 512MB of RAM. That's double the iPhone 3GS and double the iPad, and something that should really pay off in terms of the new display and most importantly, the new multitasking.
Recent Android and Windows Phone devices have had 1GHz Snapdragon chips in them for a while now, and 512MB of RAM has become the new high-end standard. It's nice to see Apple matching those on spec and it will be interesting to see what if any advantage composing their own Systen-on-a-Chip gives them moving forward.
There's also a new sensor in the mix this year. A gyroscope -- the first in a phone as far as we're aware -- hooks into the accelerometer and allows for incredibly precise 3-axis motion control and rotation around gravity. That translates into better games, better augmented reality.
Not a lot of apps are making use of the gyroscope yet but in the couple we tried it took the kinda-sorta feeling of the accelerometer and made it the yes-exactly feeling of real control.
Accessory compatibility
While iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS shared the same casing, meaning accessory manufacturers had an incredible 2 year run using the same basic templates for their designs, iPhone 4 is a different beast.
If you have accessories from a previous iPhone, and those accessories were molded (typically cases, some chargers, and docks) chances are they won't fit properly on or with iPhone 4. You'll have to look into the new ones that are already coming to market.
If they're designed to fit in the 30-pin Dock connector, iPhone 4 should pop up a warning if it thinks they aren't compatible. The warning isn't always a show-stopper -- our car charger said it was incompatible but charged just fine -- but it's something to consider. If you're uncertain, proceed with caution.
And if you're wondering -- no, Apple iPad camera kit isn't currently supported by iPhone 4. It would sure be nice if Apple added that little bit of functionality.
The total package
Taken as a whole Apple has produced what can only be described as a stunningly beautiful piece of industrial design that may or may not be tragically flawed by what first seemed a very clever part of that design. An even more singular experience than previous iPhones, we'll likewise have to wait and see just how much Apple's penchant for the minimalism of glass and metal costs iPhone 4 when it comes to durability.
iPhone 4 ships with iOS 4, the fourth -- and freshly renamed -- annual update to Apple's mobile operating system. Aside from FaceTime and iPhone 4-specific functionality like LED flash control, Retina Display, and gyroscope support, we've documented the features extensively already in our iOS 4 walkthrough.
So we're going to focus here not so much on the facts but on the feeling -- what are the key new iOS 4 software features like to use on iPhone 4?
For comparative context, here's what it looks like on iPhone 3GS.
UPDATE: Apple has now released iOS 4.1 for iPhone, see our walkthrough.
UPDATE 2: Apple has now released iOS 4.2 for iPhone, see our walkthrough.
Apple didn't invent video calls to be sure. Nokia has been doing it for a while and HTC's recently released, Android-powered Sprint Evo 4G does it by means of third party software like Qik. FaceTime, by contrast, is typically Apple in that it's a first party, end-to-end solution. That makes it both easier to use than previous attempts but also far more limited.
You place a call or pick a contact, hit the FaceTime button, and you're video calling... provided the other person in also on an iPhone 4 and on Wi-Fi. (Apple thinks they may get carrier support for cell data FaceTime next year.)
Frustratingly, if the person you want to FaceTime isn't on an iPhone 4, isn't on Wi-Fi, or just isn't ready for you, FaceTime won't indicate this in advance, it will just try to connect... and try to connect... until it fails.
When it works, though, it works great. Your own picture sits in the corner but can be moved with the flick of a finger, and a single tap can switch it from front-facing to rear-facing camera so the person you're talking to can share not only the conversation, but the action.
If you want to put the call on hold, tap and hold the mute button. If you want to temporarily stop the video but keep the audio going, tap the home button to put FaceTim into the background.
Here's Chad and Leanna trying it out. If you want to try it out as well and don't have another iPhone 4 wielding, Wi-Fi connected friend handy, Apple has customer support specialists available to try it with you at 1-888-FACETIME.
Apple built FaceTime on open protocols like the H.264 video codec, AAC audio codec, SIP signaling protocol, STUN and ICE for NAT traversal, TURN for TCP/UDP data receipt, RTP and SRTP for audio and video packet delivery. Interestingly they've released their implementation back as an open protocol so that others can use it as well. Hopefully some, like Apple's own iChat on Mac, and Skype on pretty much every platform will adopt it.
Yes, in the not-so-distant future we might just be able to pick up FaceTime on iPhone 4 and talk to our fellow editors at Android Central and Nokia Experts on their devices.
It remains to be seen if video calling can be made mainstream, but given their record lately, we won't bet against Apple.
The iPhone has always multitasked and multitasked well, it's just been limited to Apple's own apps like iPod and Mail. They haven't allowed 3rd party App Store apps to run in the background until now. Sort of.
We've written quite a bit already about iOS 4's implementation of multitasking from a how-it-works perspective, and at WWDC we heard from many developers who sounded really impressed by it in theory. Now we've had a chance to feel it in action and... it's a mixed bag.
It's not as well visualized as Palm webOS' Cards metaphor or as open as Windows Mobile 6.5's run-until-you-get-killed system. It's actually closer to but more limited than Android's model. If you're not hip to how Apple is providing background access -- and why should an end user be? -- some things working and others not could come off as confusing.
Here's the gist -- if an app is running and you hit the home button, it no longer quits but is allowed to register a thread to complete a task (like uploading a photo to YouTube) or leave a VoIp connection (like Skype), music stream (like Pandora), or location-based service (like TomTom or FourSquare). Apps can also register local notifications, like push notifications but without requiring an internet server to send them (so your clock could sleep but your alarm would still go off).
The rest of the app then saves its state and closes down to conserve resources like memory and battery power. Users can then double-tap the home button to get a new, fast app switcher UI to quickly move around, and when they come back to the original app they were running, it reloads the saved state and they can continue from exactly where they left off.
Developers, however, have to implement things like saved state and the background music API, and while Apple is listing iOS 4 compatible apps in the App Store, those simply indicate apps that have been tested and don't crash under iOS 4, not apps that properly implement multitasking.
This means a user could have one app, like the excellent Real Racing, which does save state, and another app, like Eliminate: Gun Range, which currently supports Retina Display and the gyroscope but does not save state (at least in our tests), creating a confusing experience and the perception that iOS 4 multitasking is buggy at best and broken at worst.
Apple should really save the Awesome iOS 4 Apps badge for apps that awesomely implement iOS 4 features, not just pass the crash test.
The background API for streaming music is solid. We've streamed iTunes podcasts, switched to other streams, done hard reboots twice, and the stream has still picked up right where we left off. TomTom is currently the only big name supporting background location for turn-by-turn but we've seen beta versions of some of the others and they all worked well -- clear directions even while out of the app or on a call, and quick resumption when back in the app. Skype is still looking into background support and since it took them 3 months to get 3G support out the door, we're not holding our breath for a quick update. (Prove us wrong. Please.)
Beyond background VoIP, streaming music, and location, however, other useful background API aren't currently supported. Time-line updates specifically is something Apple said they're supporting via notifications rather than background. That means you'll know if you get a new tweet, IM, or RSS article because of a badge, sound, or alert box, but the app will still have to load that new content when you re-launch it (unlike iPhone's Mail app which gets your email in the background and has the subject and preview ready and waiting when you tap into it.)
Persistent internet connections for things like SSH tunnels and VNC sessions aren't supported. You can complete tasks after you exit but they'll have to reconnect when you go back to them later.
For the sake of communication junkies and network administrators both, here's hoping Apple expands background support to include them in the future.
In terms of the fast-app switcher interface, this is the part that most of us will simply consider the new "multitasking" since it's the most visible element. While again not as slick as Palm's Cards (which, to be fair, is similar to Apple's interface for switching pages in mobile Safari), it does stick closely to the overall app and dock-centric metaphor Apple's been training us on since iOS 1.0.
A lot of work has been done to preserve our orientation. When you double click the home button the screen looks to split open and reveal the new interface "in the background". Apps are sorted by most recent use, eliminating the previously annoying need to page through up to 11 home screen pages just to switch back and forth between two apps.
When you change apps via the multitasking UI, you get a new animation, like a carousel, that shows the new app coming in on top and pushing the old app into the background. (If you exit to the home screen first you get the traditional, iconic, fly-in/fly-out animation).
Since apps are supposed to save state now, and you come back right where you left off, the overall experience really is quick and clean -- and perceptively multitasking.
The multitasking dock also has a few other features. You can force-quit an app here by going into jiggly mode and tapping the minus icon. If you swipe left on the multitasking UI you get a set of pseudo widget-like controls. The first locks orientation, a software version of the iPad's hardware switch. Strangely, it's portrait-only at the moment but for those who like to read in bed, half a solution is better than none. The next three controls are for streaming music -- skip back/rewind, play/pause, and skip ahead/fast forward. The last icon is for the app that's currently playing music, either iPod for local music, iTunes for streaming podcasts from the store, or Pandora, Slacker, etc. for internet radio.
Nifty as that is, there's still no lock screen or home screen widgets to provide glance-able data (aside from Calendar, whose icon carries the current date -- something it's done since iPhone 1.0 but no other icon has been updated to do since).
Overall, iOS 4's fast app switcher is familiar enough and contextual enough that the added complexity isn't overwhelming. It feels like it works the way it should, just not quite yet the way the power users among us wish it would.
Ultimately, while it's easy to nit, it's hard to argue with Apple's results here -- there's a system that does most of what we think multitasking should do with minimal impact on battery life or performance.
That's a huge win.
You could previously store 180 apps on your iPhone. Thanks to iOS 4 you can now create an app "folder" that contains up to 12 other apps, bringing the theoretical total to 2160. The folder icon itself will display tiny versions of the apps inside it, which are surprisingly recognizable on iPhone 4's Retina Display.
However, folder icons only show 9 app icons (3x3) out of twelve, meaning apps 10 through 12 are effectively hidden, destroying the entire purpose of icons. Then again, some folks are already saying 12 apps per folder isn't enough so limiting it to 9 probably would have come with complaints as many if not more complaints.
Visually the folder UI is similar to the fast app switcher in that it splits the screen and "opens" up to reveal the apps contained inside (orientation and context).
You create or add to a folder by dragging one app icon onto another, you remove apps or folders by dragging apps out, and when no apps are left the folder automatically deletes itself.
Folders are named "intelligently" according to Apple, which means they check the app category and sub-category and try to match whichever is both most specific and most applicable to the group. "Social" would show up for Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn apps. A bunch of FPS would get "Action Games", etc. Given most of us will group similar apps together, it usually works fairly well and when it doesn't it's easy to edit.
Again, it's nothing like a hierarchical file system like you'd find in older PalmOS or Windows Phone devices, and it provides no functionality beyond simple grouping. For many of us, that'll be enough.
There are two big changes to mail, support for multiple ActiveSync accounts (so you can push both your work Exchange and home Gmail/Google Sync at the same time), and unified inbox with threaded email view.
Multiple ActiveSync works well to the point that you don't realize it's there -- just set it up and you're good to go. Pushing MobileMe, Exchange, and Google Sync didn't cause an appreciable hit on our battery life either.
The unified inbox and threaded email work well enough, though sometimes we had to dig through threads to find new mail. (That could have been the result of Google's mail service performing very poorly in general during the period we were testing).
When multiple messages are in a thread a small gray square containing the number of messages is displayed beside a small gray arrow to the right hand side. Tapping a message takes you to the thread view, tapping it again shows you the message. This does mean Apple has doubled the amount of taps needed to get to an email, but if that bothers you, you can hop into Settings, Mail, Contacts, and Calendar, and flip the Organize by Thread toggle to "off".
Not as well oriented or contextualized an interface as the fast app switcher or folders, it's none-the-less one more tiny little step on Apple's journey towards serious communications device.
Next steps will hopefully include adding the ability to mark (and mark all) as read/un-read, and flag/star messages.
iBooks and iMovie
Apple announced two apps alongside iPhone 4. The first was iBooks for iPhone, the second was iMovie for iPhone 4.
These aren't built in, however, but made available via the iTunes App Store. (Which hopefully means Apple can update them at their own pace and not be forced to tie their updates to iOS releases like the built in apps -- a considerably longer cycle).
Here's Chad's video on iBooks for iPhone 4.
Here's Leanna's video on iMovie for iPhone 4. For more, check out her iMovie for iPhone 4 hands-on.
iBooks is free and works on all iPhones and iPod touches. iMovie is $4.99 and currently only works on iPhone 4 with its faster processor and higher RAM.
Is that legacy or first-party fragmentation? We tend to define legacy as lack of support for older generation devices and fragmentation as lack of support for current generation devices (due to different hardware specs or operating system availabilities).
Things like the Retina Display being exactly 4x the size of previous displays, and API like CoreMotion and CoreLocation abstracting away the lack of gyroscopes and GPS on older devices, Apple is falling victim to legacy but doing a lot o avoid fragmentation.
We'll see how long they can keep that up, and how widely they can spread iOS to devices like iPad before it becomes a problem to developers and users.
Hundreds of thousands of other apps
As we mentioned in the Retina Display section, existing iPhone apps and games will look the same on the iPhone 4 as they do on the iPhone 3GS and previous models. That means there's already 225,000 apps and games (and likely more by the time we finish writing this) ready to go on your iPhone, a percentage of which are good and a number of which are great.
New apps and games that include x2 artwork will look four times as good. Those are growing in number daily and hopefully we'll see others that start to work with the gyroscope and even FaceTime protocols.
Ally is posting roundups of some of our favorite iOS 4 and iPhone 4 games and apps as they go live in the App Store and Apple is maintaining a list of iOS 4 apps they find awesome [iTunes list].
WebOS is making strides in 3D gaming and the Android Market is growing by leaps and bounds. With App Stores in 100 countries, roughly 100 million broadly compatible iOS devices sold to date, and 1 billion paid out to developers, however, Apple maintains a strong lead when it comes to apps and games. That's good for them, developers, and iPhone users -- due to the large number of apps, there's a better chance you'll find the few that are great for you and your needs. That's the advantage of popularity and scale.
Heading into its third year in operation, however, the problem of opaque and inconsistent App Store curation remains. Steve Jobs has said 95% of apps get approved in 7 days, and the 3 top reasons for rejection are apps that don't do what they say they do, apps that crash on launch, and apps that use private API (that could break in the next OS update).
The price of exerting editorial control, though, is editorial responsibility. Jobs chose to point out app reviewers (and Apple) were just people, and they make mistakes, and can't foresee everything in advance — like a rule against defamation conflicting with apps making fair parody of public figures. It's not that Apple is making mistakes (they are), its not that Apple is learning and improving (they are), it's that they continue to do so in a black box using editorial ambiguity to shield them from the responsibility mandated by their control.
We're going to quote this from our iOS 4 walkthrough verbatim because it bears repeating. Apple really doesn't get enough credit for the outstanding accessibility features they build into their OS, both desktop and mobile. iOS 4 continues to lead the industry. VoiceOver supports 21 languages to read out loud whatever your finger touches on the screen, and a Rotor gesture lets you temporarily change languages now on the fly.
Bluetooth support has been extended to more than 30 braille devices with tables for more than 25 languages.
Touch Typing lets you run your finger across the keyboard, hear the letter you're currently over, and release your finger to type it.
The basic rotor has been made visible so sighted users can see it in action, and you can now add custom settings to move through content.
It's outstanding. We hope other OS choose this as an area to focus their competitive innovations on, and we hope Apple keeps on improving it at the same time.
Maturing platform
Apple has gotten to the point with iOS where updates are increasingly about filling out the feature set, which is a good sign of the platforms growing maturity. They'll have to be careful, however, that with things like fast app switching and folders they're not increasing complexityor stretching their app launcher-centric UI model too far.
The line they've successfully walked in the past was to make simple, mainstream features obvious or easily discoverable -- like tapping an icon or swiping a page. For more advanced or niche features Apple didn't even explain them, just buried them in tech notes or left users to find out about them on sites such as TiPb -- like taking a screenshot or force quitting apps.
Fast app switching and folders could fall into the same model, there for those who want to use them, ignorable for those who don't. It's closer to the line but we don't think they've crossed it yet, at least not for most users.
Pricing and Availability
iPhone 4 became available in the US, France, Germany, the UK, and Japan on June 24, 2010. It's scheduled to become available Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada (!), Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, Sweden, and Switzerland in July, though recent Apple website updates have replaced that with the more nebulous "soon". All told, Apple plans to ship iPhone 4 to 88 countries this year, a fairly impressive international rollout.
True to form, Apple hasn't reduced the price of the iPhone but gives you more for the same price as last year. Subsidized on AT&T, iPhone 4 will set you back $199 for the 16GB model and $299 for 32GB. ( iPhone 3GS has a new 8GB model and is now occupying the $99 spot).
Outside the US iPhone 4 is or will be available SIM-free (unlocked) if you're willing to pay full price for it (full price varies by region but should be somewhere north of $600 for 16GB and $700 for 32GB).
iPhone comes in black and white (which this year includes a full white face-plate), but as of this writing the white model has been delayed, something Apple ascribes to a more difficult manufacturing processes.
Apple says iPhone 4 is the biggest update since the original iPhone. But it's a very different market now. Back then the iPhone 2G was a wake up call to an arrogant, complacent establishment that had forgotten the innovation that created their industry. Now the giants have all awakened and new giants have joined them and it will be difficult for anyone to shake things up again the way Apple did in 2007. Apple included.
It's not that Apple isn't moving quickly any more, it's that the initial acceleration is done and everyone else isn't stationary around them any more -- they're racing just as fast.
Last year we said the iPhone 3GS was more of a step forward than a leap. This year they took a giant hop approaching a skip, and still in the right direction. There's a lot we still don't have, like Wi-Fi sync/sharing, and an elegant, non-interuptive notification system. But that list continues to grow shorter and shorter. (And hey, the iOS 5 sneak preview event is only 8 or so months away...)
An impressive new design, amazing new display, key features like multitasking, and an attempt to mainstream video calls, along with hundreds of other little improvements combine together to make this a substantial upgrade and clearly the best iPhone ever. (Given the success of previous iPhones, that's no faint praise).
Our usual Smartphone Experts advice still holds true -- pick your network first. If AT&T is the best carrier in your area it's almost a no brainer. Unless you're allergic to apples, this is the phone to get. Internationally, iPhone 4 will be on multiple carriers in most countries so the odds are good you'll find it on your carrier of choice (and be able to get it SIM-free, unlocked directly from Apple). Then it comes down to device.
iPhone 4 is still limited in ways that frustrate power users, and may be flawed to the point of having serious issues (we're waiting to see about that), so that's something you'll want to consider before buying.
If you currently have an iPhone it's certainly more compelling an upgrade from the iPhone 3GS than the iPhone 3GS was from the iPhone 3G, and a great cross-grade for anyone on another platform whose willing to sacrifice control to gain usability. If you have an iPhone 3G or iPhone 2G, and you can afford the upgrade, do it. You'll find the difference is night and day.
Rene Ritchie is one of the most respected Apple analysts in the business, reaching a combined audience of over 40 million readers a month. His YouTube channel, Vector, has over 90 thousand subscribers and 14 million views and his podcasts, including Debug, have been downloaded over 20 million times. He also regularly co-hosts MacBreak Weekly for the TWiT network and co-hosted CES Live! and Talk Mobile. Based in Montreal, Rene is a former director of product marketing, web developer, and graphic designer. He's authored several books and appeared on numerous television and radio segments to discuss Apple and the technology industry. When not working, he likes to cook, grapple, and spend time with his friends and family.


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In J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional universe of Middle-earth, Mordor is the dwelling place of Sauron, in the southeast of Middle-earth. Frodo and Sam went there to destroy the One Ring. Mordor was unique because of the three enormous mountain ridges surrounding it, from the North, from the West and from the South, that protected this land from an unexpected invasion by any of the people living in those directions.
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Mordor was protected from three sides by mountain ranges, arranged roughly rectangularly: Ered Lithui in the north, Ephel Dúath in the west, and an unnamed (or possibly still called Ephel Dúath) range in the south. In the northwest corner of Mordor the deep valley of Udûn was the only entrance for large armies, and that is where Sauron built the Black Gate of Mordor. In front of the Morannon lay the Dagorlad or the Battle Plain. Sauron's main fortress Barad-dûr was at the foothills of Ered Lithui. To southwest of Barad-dûr lay the arid plateau of Gorgoroth and Mount Doom; to the east lay the plain of Lithlad. A narrow pass led through Ephel Dúath and the fortress of Minas Morgul (earlier Minas Ithil) was guarding that; an even more difficult pass was guarded by the giant spider Shelob and the fortress of Cirith Ungol. Another known fortress was Durthang in northern Ephel Dúath.
The southern part of Mordor, Núrn, was slighly more fertile, and moist enough to carry the inland sea of Núrnen. Nurn was made somewhat fertile because the ash blown from Mount Doom left its soil nutrient rich, thus allowing dry-land farming. Unfortunately, the inland sea of Núrn was salty, not freshwater.
To the west of Mordor was the narrow land of Ithilien with the city of Osgiliath and the great river Anduin, to the northeast Rhûn, and to the southeast, Khand.
Mordor was a relic of the devastating works of Morgoth, apparently formed by massive volcanic eruptions. It was given the name Mordor already before Sauron settled there, because of its volcano Orodruin and its eruptions. Sauron however was the first to settle there.
See also: Timeline of Arda
Early history
Sauron settled in Mordor shortly after the end of the First Age, and it remained the pivot of his evil contemplations for the whole of the Second and Third Ages of Middle-earth. In the north-western corner of this land stood Mount Doom or Orodruin, where Sauron had forged the One Ring. Near Orodruin stood Sauron's stronghold Barad-dûr. After this time, Sauron was known as the Dark Lord of Mordor.
For two and a half thousand years, Sauron ruled Mordor uninterruptedly. Having wrought the Ring, it was from there that he launched the attack upon the Elves of Eregion. He was repelled by the Men of Númenor. He fought against the Men again, almost a thousand years later; that time, he was captured by the Númenóreans and brought to their island kingdom, eventually causing its destruction (see Akallabêth). Immediately after Númenor's destruction, Sauron returned to Mordor as a spirit and resumed his rule.
The Last Alliance and Third Age
Sauron's rule was interrupted yet again when his efforts to overthrow the surviving Men and Elves failed, and they fought their way back to their foe's domain. After several years of siege, forces of the Last Alliance of Elves and Men came into Mordor. Sauron was defeated in a final battle on the slopes of Orodruin. For about a thousand years, Mordor was guarded by Gondor in order to prevent any evil forces from breaking out.
However Gondor had failed in the long run, and deprived of guard, Mordor began to fill with evil things again. Minas Ithil was conquered by the Nine Ringwraiths; other fortifications that were supposed to defend Gondor from the menace inside Mordor were turned into a means of shielding Mordor. By the time Sauron returned into Mordor after his false defeat in Dol Guldur (in the events that took place at the time of Bilbo Baggins's quest), Mordor was protected too well to be captured by any military might that was available in Middle-earth at the end of the Third Age. In the north of Mordor during the War of the Ring were the great garrisons and forges of war, while surrounding the bitter inland Sea of Núrnen to the south lay the vast fields tended for the provision of the armies by hordes of slaves brought in from lands to the east and south.
War of the Ring
During the War of the Ring, Sauron gathered all his forces to Mordor. After the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, a Host of the West went to the Black Gate. Sauron sent his army to destroy the Men of Gondor and Rohan, but then Frodo Baggins destroyed the One Ring and Mordor fell. The Dark Tower, Black Gate and the Towers of Teeth collapsed to ruin. Mount Doom exploded. Both Sauron and his Ringwraiths were apparently destroyed.
After the ultimate defeat of Sauron, Mordor became mostly empty again as the Orcs inside it fled or were killed. Crippled by thousands of years of abuse and neglect, but capable of sustaining life, the land of Mordor was given to the defeated foes of Gondor as a consolation, as well as to the freed slaves of Nurn who were formerly forced to farm there to feed the armies of Mordor.
Mordor actually has two meanings: "The Black Land" in Tolkien's contrived language Sindarin, and "The Land of Shadow" in Quenya. The root mor ("dark", "black") also appears in Moria. Dor ("land") also appears in Gondor ("stone-land") and Doriath ("fenced land"). The Quenya word for Shadow is "mordo".
A proposed etymology out of the context of Middle-earth is Old English morthor, which means "mortal sin" or "murder". (The latter are descended from the former.) It is not uncommon for names in Tolkien's fiction to have relevant meanings in several languages, both those invented by Tolkien, and "real" ones, but this of course happens with any two languages. Mordor is also a name cited in some Nordic mythologies referring to a land where its citizens practice evil without knowing it, imposed on themselves by the society long created for that purpose. This quite fits with Tolkien's Mordor.
In The Atlas of Middle-earth, Karen Wynn Fonstad assumed that the lands of Mordor, Khand, and Rhûn lay where the inland Sea of Helcar had been, and that the Sea of Rhûn and Sea of Núrnen were its remnants. The atlas was however published before The Peoples of Middle-earth, where it turned out that the Sea of Rhûn and Mordor existed already in the First Age.
Compare: Moria
It is also the name of a metal band (http://www.mordor.freeurl.com).
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Revelation given through Joseph Smith the Prophet at Kirtland, Ohio, December 27 and 28, 1832, and January 3, 1833. The Prophet designated it as the "'olive leaf' … plucked from the Tree of Paradise, the Lord's message of peace to us." The revelation was given after high priests at a conference prayed "separately and vocally to the Lord to reveal his will unto us concerning the upbuilding of Zion."
1–5, Faithful Saints receive that Comforter, which is the promise of eternal life; 6–13, All things are controlled and governed by the Light of Christ; 14–16, The Resurrection comes through the Redemption; 17–31, Obedience to celestial, terrestrial, or telestial law prepares men for those respective kingdoms and glories; 32–35, Those who will to abide in sin remain filthy still; 36–41, All kingdoms are governed by law; 42–45, God has given a law unto all things; 46–50, Man will comprehend even God; 51–61, The parable of the man sending his servants into the field and visiting them in turn; 62–73, Draw near unto the Lord, and ye will see His face; 74–80, Sanctify yourselves and teach one another the doctrines of the kingdom; 81–85, Every man who has been warned should warn his neighbor; 86–94, Signs, upheavals of the elements, and angels prepare the way for the coming of the Lord; 95–102, Angelic trumps call forth the dead in their order; 103–16, Angelic trumps proclaim the restoration of the gospel, the fall of Babylon, and the battle of the great God; 117–26, Seek learning, establish a house of God (a temple), and clothe yourselves with the bond of charity; 127–41, The order of the School of the Prophets is set forth, including the ordinance of washing of feet.
1 Verily, thus saith the Lord unto you who have assembled yourselves together to receive his will concerning you:
2 Behold, this is pleasing unto your Lord, and the angels arejoice over you; the balms of your prayers have come up into the ears of the Lord of cSabaoth, and are recorded in the dbook of the names of the sanctified, even them of the celestial world.
3 Wherefore, I now send upon you another aComforter, even upon you my friends, that it may abide in your hearts, even the Holy Spirit of bpromise; which other Comforter is the same that I promised unto my disciples, as is recorded in the testimony of John.
4 This Comforter is the apromise which I give unto you of beternal life, even the cglory of the celestial kingdom;
5 Which glory is that of the church of the aFirstborn, even of God, the holiest of all, through Jesus Christ his Son—
6 He that aascended up on high, as also he bdescended below all things, in that he ccomprehended all things, that he might be in all and through all things, the dlight of truth;
7 Which truth shineth. This is the alight of Christ. As also he is in the sun, and the light of the sun, and the power thereof by which it was bmade.
8 As also he is in the moon, and is the light of the moon, and the power thereof by which it was made;
9 As also the light of the stars, and the power thereof by which they were made;
10 And the earth also, and the power thereof, even the earth upon which you astand.
11 And the light which shineth, which giveth you light, is through him who enlighteneth your eyes, which is the same light that quickeneth your aunderstandings;
12 Which alight proceedeth forth from the presence of God to bfill the immensity of space—
13 The alight which is in all things, which giveth blife to all things, which is the claw by which all things are governed, even the dpower of God who esitteth upon his throne, who is in the bosom of eternity, who is in the midst of all things.
14 Now, verily I say unto you, that through the aredemption which is made for you is brought to pass the resurrection from the dead.
15 And the aspirit and the bbody are the csoul of man.
16 And the aresurrection from the dead is the redemption of the soul.
17 And the redemption of the soul is through him that aquickeneth all things, in whose bosom it is decreed that the bpoor and the cmeek of the dearth shall inherit it.
18 Therefore, it must needs be asanctified from all bunrighteousness, that it may be prepared for the ccelestial glory;
19 For after it hath filled the measure of its creation, it shall be crowned with aglory, even with the presence of God the Father;
20 That bodies who are of the acelestial kingdom may bpossess it forever and ever; for, for this cintent was it made and created, and for this intent are they dsanctified.
21 And they who are not asanctified through the blaw which I have given unto you, even the law of Christ, must inherit canother kingdom, even that of a terrestrial kingdom, or that of a telestial kingdom.
22 For he who is not able to abide the alaw of a celestial kingdom cannot babide a ccelestial glory.
23 And he who cannot abide the law of a aterrestrial kingdom cannot abide a terrestrial glory.
24 And he who cannot abide the law of a atelestial bkingdom cannot abide a telestial cglory; therefore he is not meet for a kingdom of glory. Therefore he must abide a kingdom which is not a kingdom of glory.
25 And again, verily I say unto you, the aearth abideth the law of a celestial kingdom, for it filleth the bmeasure of its creation, and transgresseth not the law—
26 Wherefore, it shall be asanctified; yea, notwithstanding it shall bdie, it shall be cquickened again, and shall abide the power by which it is quickened, and the drighteous shall einherit it.
27 For notwithstanding they die, they also shall arise again, a bspiritual body.
28 They who are of a celestial aspirit shall receive the same bbody which was a natural body; even ye shall receive your bodies, and your cglory shall be that glory by which your bodies are dquickened.
29 Ye who are aquickened by a portion of the bcelestial glory shall then receive of the same, even a fulness.
30 And they who are quickened by a portion of the aterrestrial glory shall then receive of the same, even a fulness.
31 And also they who are quickened by a portion of the atelestial glory shall then receive of the same, even a fulness.
32 And they who remain shall also be aquickened; nevertheless, they shall return again to their own place, to enjoy that which they are bwilling to receive, because they were not willing to enjoy that which they might have received.
33 For what doth it profit a man if a gift is bestowed upon him, and he receive not the gift? Behold, he rejoices not in that which is given unto him, neither rejoices in him who is the giver of the gift.
34 And again, verily I say unto you, that which is agoverned by law is also preserved by law and perfected and bsanctified by the same.
35 That which abreaketh a law, and babideth not by claw, but seeketh to become a law unto itself, and willeth to abide in sin, and altogether abideth in sin, cannot be sanctified by law, neither by mercy, djustice, nor ejudgment. Therefore, they must remain ffilthy still.
36 All kingdoms have a law given;
37 And there are many akingdoms; for there is no bspace in the which there is no ckingdom; and there is no kingdom in which there is no space, either a greater or a lesser kingdom.
38 And unto every kingdom is given a alaw; and unto every law there are certain bounds also and conditions.
39 All beings who abide not in those aconditions are not bjustified.
40 For aintelligence cleaveth unto intelligence; bwisdom receiveth wisdom; ctruth embraceth truth; dvirtue loveth virtue; elight cleaveth unto light; fmercy hath gcompassion on mercy and claimeth her own; hjustice continueth its course and claimeth its own; judgment goeth before the face of him who sitteth upon the throne and governeth and executeth all things.
41 He acomprehendeth all things, and all things are before him, and all things are round about him; and he is above all things, and in all things, and is through all things, and is round about all things; and all things are by him, and of him, even God, forever and ever.
42 And again, verily I say unto you, he hath given a alaw unto all things, by which they move in their btimes and their seasons;
43 And their courses are fixed, even the courses of the heavens and the earth, which comprehend the earth and all the planets.
44 And they give alight to each other in their times and in their seasons, in their minutes, in their hours, in their days, in their weeks, in their months, in their years—all these are bone year with God, but not with man.
45 The earth arolls upon her wings, and the bsun giveth his light by day, and the moon giveth her light by night, and the stars also give their light, as they roll upon their wings in their glory, in the midst of the cpower of God.
46 Unto what shall I liken these kingdoms, that ye may understand?
47 Behold, all these are akingdoms, and any man who hath bseen any or the least of these hath cseen God dmoving in his majesty and power.
48 I say unto you, he hath seen him; nevertheless, he who came unto his aown was not comprehended.
49 The alight shineth in darkness, and the darkness comprehendeth it not; nevertheless, the day shall come when you shall bcomprehend even God, being quickened in him and by him.
50 Then shall ye know that ye have aseen me, that I am, and that I am the true blight that is in you, and that you are in me; otherwise ye could not abound.
51 Behold, I will liken these kingdoms unto a man having a field, and he sent forth his servants into the field to dig in the field.
52 And he said unto the first: Go ye and labor in the field, and in the first hour I will come unto you, and ye shall behold the joy of my countenance.
53 And he said unto the second: Go ye also into the field, and in the second hour I will visit you with the joy of my countenance.
54 And also unto the third, saying: I will visit you;
55 And unto the fourth, and so on unto the twelfth.
56 And the lord of the field went unto the first in the first hour, and tarried with him all that hour, and he was made glad with the light of the countenance of his lord.
57 And then he withdrew from the first that he might visit the second also, and the third, and the fourth, and so on unto the twelfth.
58 And thus they all received the light of the countenance of their lord, every man in his hour, and in his time, and in his season—
59 Beginning at the first, and so on unto the alast, and from the last unto the first, and from the first unto the last;
60 Every man in his own aorder, until his hour was finished, even according as his lord had commanded him, that his lord might be glorified in him, and he in his lord, that they all might be glorified.
61 Therefore, unto this parable I will liken all these akingdoms, and the binhabitants thereof—every kingdom in its hour, and in its time, and in its season, even according to the decree which God hath made.
62 And again, verily I say unto you, my afriends, I leave these bsayings with you to cponder in your hearts, with this commandment which I give unto you, that ye shall dcall upon me while I am near—
63 aDraw bnear unto me and I will draw near unto you; cseek me diligently and ye shall dfind me; ask, and ye shall receive; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
64 Whatsoever ye aask the Father in my name it shall be given unto you, that is bexpedient for you;
65 And if ye ask anything that is not aexpedient for you, it shall turn unto your bcondemnation.
66 Behold, that which you hear is as the avoice of one crying in the wilderness—in the wilderness, because you cannot see him—my voice, because my voice is bSpirit; my Spirit is truth; ctruth abideth and hath no end; and if it be in you it shall abound.
67 And if your eye be asingle to my bglory, your whole bodies shall be filled with light, and there shall be no darkness in you; and that body which is filled with light ccomprehendeth all things.
68 Therefore, asanctify yourselves that your bminds become csingle to God, and the days will come that you shall dsee him; for he will unveil his face unto you, and it shall be in his own time, and in his own way, and according to his own will.
69 Remember the great and last promise which I have made unto you; cast away your aidle thoughts and your bexcess of claughter far from you.
70 Tarry ye, tarry ye in this place, and call a asolemn assembly, even of those who are the first blaborers in this last kingdom.
71 And let those whom they have warned in their traveling call on the Lord, and aponder the bwarning in their hearts which they have received, for a little season.
72 Behold, and lo, I will take care of your aflocks, and will raise up elders and send unto them.
73 Behold, I will ahasten my work in its time.
74 And I give unto you, who are the first alaborers in this last kingdom, a commandment that you assemble yourselves together, and organize yourselves, and prepare yourselves, and bsanctify yourselves; yea, purify your hearts, and ccleanse your hands and your feet before me, that I may make you dclean;
75 That I may testify unto your aFather, and your God, and my bGod, that you are clean from the cblood of this wicked generation; that I may fulfil this promise, this great and last dpromise, which I have made unto you, when I will.
76 Also, I give unto you a commandment that ye shall continue in aprayer and fasting from this time forth.
77 And I give unto you a commandment that you shall ateach one another the bdoctrine of the kingdom.
78 Teach ye diligently and my agrace shall attend you, that you may be binstructed more perfectly in theory, in principle, in doctrine, in the law of the gospel, in all things that pertain unto the kingdom of God, that are expedient for you to understand;
79 Of things both in aheaven and in the earth, and under the earth; things which have been, things which are, things which must bshortly come to pass; things which are at home, things which are abroad; the wars and the perplexities of the cnations, and the judgments which are on the land; and a dknowledge also of countries and of kingdoms—
80 That ye may be prepared in all things when I shall send you again to amagnify the calling whereunto I have called you, and the bmission with which I have commissioned you.
81 Behold, I sent you out to atestify and warn the people, and it becometh every man who hath been warned to bwarn his neighbor.
82 Therefore, they are left awithout excuse, and their sins are upon their bown heads.
83 He that aseeketh me bearly shall find me, and shall not be forsaken.
84 Therefore, tarry ye, and labor diligently, that you may be perfected in your ministry to go forth among the aGentiles for the last time, as many as the mouth of the Lord shall name, to bbind up the law and cseal up the testimony, and to prepare the saints for the hour of judgment which is to come;
85 That their souls may escape the wrath of God, the adesolation of abomination which awaits the wicked, both in this world and in the world to come. Verily, I say unto you, let those who are not the bfirst elders continue in the vineyard until the mouth of the Lord shall ccall them, for their time is not yet come; their garments are not dclean from the blood of this generation.
86 Abide ye in the aliberty wherewith ye are made bfree; centangle not yourselves in dsin, but let your hands be eclean, until the Lord comes.
87 For not many days hence and the aearth shall btremble and reel to and fro as a drunken man; and the csun shall dhide his face, and shall refuse to give light; and the moon shall be bathed in eblood; and the stars shall become exceedingly angry, and shall fcast themselves down as a fig that falleth from off a fig tree.
88 And after your atestimony cometh wrath and indignation upon the people.
89 For after your testimony cometh the testimony of aearthquakes, that shall cause groanings in the midst of her, and men shall fall upon the ground and shall not be able to stand.
90 And also cometh the testimony of the avoice of thunderings, and the voice of lightnings, and the voice of tempests, and the voice of the waves of the sea heaving themselves beyond their bounds.
91 And all things shall be in acommotion; and surely, men's bhearts shall fail them; for fear shall come upon all people.
92 And aangels shall fly through the midst of heaven, crying with a loud voice, sounding the trump of God, saying: Prepare ye, prepare ye, O inhabitants of the earth; for the bjudgment of our God is come. Behold, and lo, the cBridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.
93 And immediately there shall appear a agreat sign in heaven, and all people shall see it together.
94 And another angel shall sound his trump, saying: That agreat bchurch, the cmother of abominations, that made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her dfornication, that epersecuteth the saints of God, that shed their blood—she who sitteth upon many waters, and upon the islands of the sea—behold, she is the ftares of the earth; she is bound in bundles; her bands are made strong, no man can loose them; therefore, she is ready to be burned. And he shall sound his trump both long and loud, and all nations shall hear it.
95 And there shall be asilence in bheaven for the space of half an hour; and immediately after shall the curtain of heaven be unfolded, as a cscroll is unfolded after it is rolled up, and the dface of the Lord shall be unveiled;
96 And the saints that are upon the earth, who are alive, shall be quickened and be acaught up to meet him.
97 And they who have slept in their graves shall acome forth, for their graves shall be opened; and they also shall be caught up to meet him in the midst of the bpillar of heaven—
98 They are Christ's, the afirst fruits, they who shall descend with him first, and they who are on the earth and in their graves, who are first caught up to meet him; and all this by the voice of the sounding of the trump of the angel of God.
99 And after this another angel shall sound, which is the second trump; and then cometh the redemption of those who are Christ's at his acoming; who have received their part in that bprison which is prepared for them, that they might receive the gospel, and be cjudged according to men in the flesh.
100 And again, another trump shall sound, which is the third trump; and then come the aspirits of men who are to be judged, and are found under bcondemnation;
101 And these are the rest of the adead; and they live not again until the bthousand years are ended, neither again, until the end of the earth.
102 And another trump shall sound, which is the fourth trump, saying: There are found among those who are to remain until that great and last day, even the end, who shall aremain bfilthy still.
103 And another trump shall sound, which is the fifth trump, which is the fifth angel who committeth the aeverlasting gospel—flying through the midst of heaven, unto all nations, kindreds, tongues, and people;
104 And this shall be the sound of his trump, saying to all people, both in heaven and in earth, and that are under the earth—for aevery ear shall hear it, and every knee shall bbow, and every tongue shall confess, while they hear the sound of the trump, saying: cFear God, and give glory to him who sitteth upon the throne, dforever and ever; for the hour of his judgment is come.
105 And again, another angel shall sound his trump, which is the sixth angel, saying: She is afallen who made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication; she is fallen, is fallen!
106 And again, another angel shall sound his trump, which is the seventh angel, saying: It is finished; it is finished! The aLamb of God hath bovercome and ctrodden the wine-press alone, even the wine-press of the fierceness of the wrath of Almighty God.
107 And then shall the angels be crowned with the glory of his might, and the asaints shall be filled with his bglory, and receive their cinheritance and be made dequal with him.
108 And then shall the first angel again sound his trump in the ears of all living, and areveal the secret acts of men, and the mighty works of God in the bfirst thousand years.
109 And then shall the second angel sound his trump, and reveal the secret acts of men, and the thoughts and intents of their hearts, and the mighty aworks of God in the second thousand years—
110 And so on, until the seventh angel shall sound his trump; and he shall astand forth upon the land and upon the sea, and bswear in the name of him who sitteth upon the throne, that there shall be ctime no longer; and dSatan shall be bound, that old serpent, who is called the devil, and shall not be loosed for the space of a ethousand years.
111 And then he shall be aloosed for a little season, that he may gather together his armies.
112 And aMichael, the seventh angel, even the archangel, shall gather together his armies, even the hosts of heaven.
113 And the devil shall gather together his aarmies; even the hosts of hell, and shall come up to battle against Michael and his armies.
114 And then cometh the abattle of the great God; and the devil and his armies shall be bcast away into their own place, that they shall not have power over the saints any more at all.
115 For Michael shall fight their battles, and shall overcome him who aseeketh the throne of him who sitteth upon the throne, even the Lamb.
116 This is the glory of God, and the asanctified; and they shall not any more see bdeath.
117 Therefore, verily I say unto you, my afriends, call your solemn assembly, as I have bcommanded you.
118 And as all have not afaith, seek ye diligently and bteach one another words of cwisdom; yea, seek ye out of the best dbooks words of wisdom; seek learning, even by study and also by faith.
119 aOrganize yourselves; prepare every needful thing; and establish a bhouse, even a house of prayer, a house of fasting, a house of faith, a house of learning, a house of glory, a house of order, a house of God;
120 That your aincomings may be in the name of the Lord; that your outgoings may be in the name of the Lord; that all your salutations may be in the name of the Lord, with buplifted hands unto the Most High.
121 Therefore, acease from all your light speeches, from all blaughter, from all your clustful desires, from all your dpride and light-mindedness, and from all your wicked doings.
122 Appoint among yourselves a teacher, and let anot all be spokesmen at once; but let one speak at a time and let all listen unto his sayings, that when all have spoken that all may be bedified of all, and that every man may have an equal privilege.
123 See that ye alove one another; cease to be bcovetous; learn to impart one to another as the gospel requires.
124 Cease to be aidle; cease to be bunclean; cease to cfind fault one with another; cease to dsleep longer than is needful; retire to thy bed early, that ye may not be weary; arise early, that your bodies and your minds may be einvigorated.
125 And above all things, clothe yourselves with the bond of acharity, as with a mantle, which is the bond of perfectness and bpeace.
126 aPray always, that ye may not faint, until I bcome. Behold, and lo, I will come quickly, and receive you unto myself. Amen.
127 And again, the order of the house prepared for the apresidency of the bschool of the cprophets, established for their instruction in all things that are expedient for them, even for all the dofficers of the church, or in other words, those who are called to the ministry in the church, beginning at the high priests, even down to the deacons—
128 And this shall be the order of the house of the presidency of the school: He that is appointed to be president, or teacher, shall be found standing in his place, in the house which shall be prepared for him.
129 Therefore, he shall be first in the house of God, in a place that the congregation in the house may hear his words carefully and distinctly, not with loud speech.
130 And when he cometh into the house of God, for he should be first in the house—behold, this is abeautiful, that he may be an bexample—
131 Let him offer himself in prayer upon his knees before God, in atoken or remembrance of the everlasting covenant.
132 And when any shall come in after him, let the teacher arise, and, with auplifted hands to heaven, yea, even directly, salute his brother or brethren with these words:
133 Art thou a brother or brethren? I salute you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, in token or remembrance of the everlasting covenant, in which covenant I receive you to afellowship, in a determination that is fixed, immovable, and unchangeable, to be your bfriend and cbrother through the grace of God in the bonds of love, to walk in all the commandments of God blameless, in thanksgiving, forever and ever. Amen.
134 And he that is found aunworthy of this salutation shall not have place among you; for ye shall not suffer that mine house shall be bpolluted by him.
135 And he that cometh in and is faithful before me, and is a brother, or if they be brethren, they shall salute the president or teacher with uplifted hands to heaven, with this same prayer and covenant, or by saying Amen, in token of the same.
136 Behold, verily, I say unto you, this is an ensample unto you for a salutation to one another in the house of God, in the school of the prophets.
137 And ye are called to do this by prayer and thanksgiving, as the Spirit shall give utterance in all your doings in the house of the Lord, in the school of the prophets, that it may become a sanctuary, a tabernacle of the Holy Spirit to your aedification.
138 And ye shall not receive any among you into this school save he is clean from the ablood of this generation;
139 And he shall be received by the ordinance of the awashing of feet, for unto this end was the ordinance of the washing of feet instituted.
140 And again, the ordinance of washing feet is to be administered by the president, or presiding elder of the church.
141 It is to be commenced with prayer; and after partaking of abread and wine, he is to gird himself according to the bpattern given in the thirteenth chapter of John's testimony concerning me. Amen.


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Welcome to Dragon Cave! Dragon Cave is an online adoptables game. Collect eggs, raise them to adulthood, and then breed them to create interesting lineages. New dragons are added regularly!
Black Capped Teimarr are a small and sociable breed of dragon with an appetite for seafood. They can commonly be seen flitting around sand dunes and tidal marshes, searching for crabs and other aquatic invertebrates, or cavorting in tidal pools in hopes of finding landlocked fish. Because of their large wing-to-body size, they are excellent long distance fliers and are known to migrate hundreds of miles along coastlines, or even across open sea to outlying islands in search of seasonal delicacies such as bird eggs, fledglings and schooling bait fish. The males are easily distinguished by their large jousting horns and their extendable neck frill, which they show off to the females through enthusiastic head bobbing.
Dragons are highly-intelligent reptilian creatures that—from a human perspective, at least—appear to live forever. Many different varieties of dragon exist, each with their own unique qualities, habitats, and behavior. Adolescence in dragons is usually marked by the growth of a hatchling's wings, although not all breeds of dragons grow wings and some breeds have other traits that indicate the beginning of maturation. In Galsreim, dragons and humans coexist peacefully.


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Binding a quilt is not one of my favorite tasks and I tend to defer it. I audition way to many fabrics, and then procrastinate. I think the real reason is that I don't always enjoy the slip stitching by hand, I am not good at it. I therefore decided that instead I would try stitch the binding down by machine.
I attached the binding to the front of the quilt as normal and pinned the binding down at the back of the quilt. I then matched top and bobbin threads to the top and back of the quilt, and from the front of the quilt, stitched in the ditch along the binding just catching the binding edge at the back of the quilt also. It worked like a charm, and it is probably the neatest binding I have ever done, including neat mitered corners. (This is by no means the only way to stitch binding by machine, or even the right way, but it worked well for me).
This quilt has been lying around way to long without the binding (and there just might be a few more awaiting binding!). Now that I know I can stitch the binding down by machine perhaps this process might occur in a more timely manner! Maybe.


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Eraser is an advanced security tool for Windows which allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns.
When you delete a file, the operating system does not really remove the file from the disk; it only removes the reference of the file from the file system table. The file remains on the disk until another file is created over it, and even after that, it might be possible to recover data by studying the magnetic fields on the disk platter surface.
There are several problems in secure file removal, mostly caused by the use of write cache, construction of the hard disk and the use of data encoding. These problems have been taken into consideration when Eraser was designed, and because of this intuitive design and a simple user interface, you can safely and easily erase private data from your hard drive.


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Welcome to the Nervous Water Fly Fishers Hawaii fly page. This page was created to answer the burning question �what fly?� This page contains links to the tying steps and recipes to some of the most popular flies used here in Hawaii. If you have any questions feel free to contact us or better yet, just come on down to the shop. Knock yourselves out... and check out clay's new blog and instagram page for more tying goodness!
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