Can you recover photos on iPhone 4?

I took photos on my new iPhone 4 before syncing it with my computer and after I plugged it into the computer for the first time it deleted all my photos! Is there a way to recover those?

This didn't occur by just connecting your new iPhone to your computer. Photos/videos in the Camera Roll are not included with the iTunes sync process regardless.
Sounds like you were syncing another iPhone with iTunes on your computer. When connecting a new iPhone to iTunes used to sync with another iPhone, you are provided two options. Transfer the backup for the other iPhone to the new iPhone, or set up the iPhone as a new iPhone. Photos/videos in the Camera Roll are included with the iPhone's backup. Since you chose the former transferring the backup for the previous iPhone, the Camera Roll on your new iPhone was replaced with the Camera Roll for the previous iPhone. Had you chose the latter or imported these photos with your computer as designed and intended and as with any other digital camera, the photos would not be lost.
Those photos are gone with no way to recover unless you take your iPhone to a data recovery service which won't be cheap and with no guarantee the photos can be recovered.

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