
Apple Inc’s newest iPhone model goes on sale this month, as the company strives to stay a step ahead of a growing cast of rivals like Google Inc in the red-hot smartphone market, Reuters reported.
Chief Executive Steve Jobs wowed a packed room Monday with the new $199 ‘iPhone 4,’ which is a quarter slimmer than the current handset, with about double the picture quality;sports the A4 processor;and allows video chat,Aslim bu energetic Jobs said at Apple’s annual developers’ conference in San Francisco that the latest phone goes on sale June 24 in 5 countries, expanding to 18 by July and 88 by September in the fastest-ever international roll-out for an iPhone.