Apple has begun airing 4 new iPhone 4 commercials and once again, it’s all about FaceTime, and heavy on the emotion and sentimentality. Titled Smile, Meet Her, Big News, and Haircut, each focuses on a moment of shared intimacy, of insecurity and anticipation, of surprise and joy. And they do it in a way that makes the visual integral to he communication.

Again, incredibly smart advertising on Apple’s part, and another step towards mainstreaming video calling and the way they’re doing it…

It’s no longer about their being an app for that. Now it’s about there being a phone — specifically iPhone 4 — for that.

Videos after the break.

[YouTube.com/apple via 9to5Mac]

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Apple began airing their first iPhone 4 commercial last night, an extract of the FaceTime feature video they debuted at WWDC 2010. The original iPhone 2G focused on features, the internet in your pocket, music on your phone. After the launch of the App Store, iPhone 3G focused on disparate apps for (this and) that for a while, until later on in the iPhone 3GS cycle they shifted slightly into apps for specific use cases. iPhone 4 brings it back around to the beginning but with less blatant techno-wow and more sentimentality. It isn’t about the cool feature, its about real people — a new father, a graduate and her grandparents, a couple using sign-language — making a real, visible, emotional connections.

Apple’s already sold 1.7 million iPhone 4s. Ads like this might move a few more.

Video after the break.

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Apple is keeping up the transition from “app for that” to showing how the iPhone makes its users lives better with three new TV commercials — Family Man, Dog Lover, and Backpacker

• Family man showcases the built-in Photo app with a video of a child’s birthday, the App Store and purchasing Jamie Oliver’s 20 minute meals [$7.99 - iTunes link] for cooking, and Elmo’s Monster Maker [$3.99 - iTunes link] for the kids on a car trip, and Viper SmartStart [free - iTunes link] for opening the car trunk.

• Dog lover highlight PetFinder.com [free- iTunes link] to help find that perfect dog, Facebook [free - iTunes link] to share the picture with friends, Hey Walkies [free - iTunes link] to find a place to run, and iCam [$4.99 - iTunes link] to stream the whole thing.

• Backpacker kicks off a trip to spain by finding a place to stay HostelWorld.com [free - iTunes link], sending back pictures with the built-in Photo and Email apps, and using the App Store to download Jibbigo speech translator English to Spanish [$24.99 - iTunes link] for automagic communication.

(Unfortunately, we don’t think there’s an app for the bill that would come from all that roaming data…)

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