At WWDC 2010 Steve Jobs announced details of the new iPhone 4. As suggested on the iPhone 4G dissected post:

• Front-facing video chat camera (CHECK!)
• Improved regular back-camera (CHECK!)
• Camera flash (CHECK!)
• Micro-SIM instead of standard SIM (CHECK!)
• Improved display. (CHECK!)
• What looks to be a secondary mic for noise cancellation, at the top, next to the headphone jack. (CHECK!)
• Split buttons for volume (CHECK!)
• Power, mute, and volume buttons are all metallic (CHECK!)

Other facts:

• Hitting the US stores on June 24 - three weeks!
• Aluminosilicate glass - 20 times stiffer, 30 times harder than plastic
• 326 pixels per inch - 960x480 resolution. Finally a decent super res on a small device!
• Based on the A4 processor - Apples own after recent purchase of P.A. Semi
• Gyroscope and Accelerometers - Means measuring direction and angular momentum - much more useful for gamming interfaces
• Shots HD (720p) Hi Def video with direct youtube integration
• Significantly increased battery life - finally!!!

A good round up of the details on a Silicon Alley Insider article. Trying to find out when it hits NZ!

A little while ago - I wrote a paper on IT Innovation for my company. This was at the request of the CFO to help facilitate a path towards IT innovation within the IS department. For the benefit of others I have posted to my blog under a dedicated page on IT Innovation.

As a follow-up to my post on Microsoft not innovating - the following insight by Scott Berke on innovation at Microsoft was passed onto me. Scott used to work for Microsoft and appears to have a very successful track record during his time there.  

Personally reading his analysis - I feel it's really important to distingush "Innovation" from "Invention". Invention is thinking up great ideas. Innovation is turning these ideas into something useful – i.e. a commercial success or what ever is your measure of "useful".

I think “Innovation” as a word is often used when people really mean “Invention”. If everyone used Innovation as “ideas that are turned into something useful” the word would have much more currency.