iPhone OS 4 unveiled, adds multitasking, shipping this summer
By Paul Miller 
posted April 8th 2010 1:43PM
posted April 8th 2010 1:43PM
Notable new features for users ("tentpoles" are in bold):
- Multitasking.
- Spell check (like on the iPad).
- Bluetooth keyboard support (again, on the iPad).
- User-defined wallpaper (a jailbreak favorite).
- Tap to focus when recording video, just like with photos, and a 5x digital zoom for the camera.
- Playlist creation and nested playlists.
- App folders for sorting apps! You can even put an app folder in the dock.
- Enhanced Mail! You can have a merged inbox view, switch between inboxes quickly, and sync to more than one Exchange account. There's also threaded messaging (at last!) and in-app attachment viewing.
- iBooks, just like on iPad, only smaller. You can wirelessly sync books between platforms, a la Kindle.
- Enterprise features, including remote device management and wireless app distribution.
- Game Center. It's like Xbox Live, but for iPhone games. Includes achievements, leaderboards, and match making. It will be available as a "developer preview," and out for consumers later this year.
Developers are getting plenty of new tricks too:
- New SDK, available today.
- 1,500 new APIs.
- Background audio (think Pandora).
- Background VoIP (think Skype).
- Background location data, both with live GPS for backgrounded turn-by-turn, and cell tower-based for lower power draw.
- Local notifications. Like push notifications, but sends a notification straight from the app without needing a push notification server, perfect for an alarm, for instance.
- Fast app switching. Saves the state of an app and resumes it from where you left off, without dwelling in memory.
- iAd. Apple says it's for keeping "free apps free." The ads keep you in the app, while also taking over the screen and adding interactivity -- using HTML 5 for video -- up to simple gaming in-ad. Apple will offer a 60 / 40 split on revenue, and users can even buy apps straight from an ad.
- In-app SMS.
- Map overlays.
- Quick look for previewing documents.
- Photo Library access.
- Calendar access.
- Full access to the camera.
- Video playback and capture.
- Date and address "data detectors."
- Automated testing and performance / power analysis (the same tools Apple uses).
Make sure to check out the iPhone OS 4.0 liveblog to see how it all went down!
Look at the upper right of the picture: it took them until OS4 to add regular expressions?
just checked it. apparently it is only free till the end of August. then it is chargable with "a small fee".
pathetic...
sorry wrokng posting. it was about skype
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This article is from April 8th and is still listed as "breaking." Is ANYONE at engadget awake on this website??? HELLO?????? iPhone has been all over the news in ways good and bad every freaking day since this posting. You have NOTHING new to say? No wonder I hardly check this site anymore.... Christ. It looks like all of your energy is going into articles for Droyo, or Yodo, or whatever operating system Android is running on this week.
Seriously lame website, guys.
I love iSO4 it's free!
would this include flash and java support to run full youtube website?
multitasking and flash are the two features of iPhone 4 I like the
most. I have been thinking to switch to nexus from my iPhone 3G but
now I will stay with iPhone and wait for its release. Thanks Apple for
adding those great features.
I will queue up one day before so I believe I can buy one on June 24.
I will have to buy a case in advance but not so many choices at the
moment. This seems the only option,
http://www.iphonecaze.com/iphone-3g-cases/style-series/iphone-hd-ultrathin-case.html
If anyone knows any case for iPhone 4, please share.
So attractive.
There are some iPhone OS 4 Conversion App,it's said that there is one method which can play DVD movies on our iPhone 4 or any other Android phone.http://www.daniusoft.com/iphone-4g/dvd-to-itunes-mac.html#207
surprized for awesome iPhone 4 coming
http://hdconverterformac.com/article-avchd-video/avchd-to-iphone-4-converter-mac.html
Compared to iPhone 3G S, iPhone 4 is more powerful and simpler to use.
I love my iPhone, I'll be buying the new "4", yadda-yadda. But what I'm wondering is where are the other 80+ funtions of the new "100 new features" in the new iPhone 4? I like Steve Jobs, but it feels like he's treating us like children who can't possibly synthesize more than a few items at a time. He outlined 7 "tent-pole" functions a few months ago, then spelled out 8 the other day (some of which were the SAME features simply re-mentioned). They're great features, but if you're going to boast about 100 new things about your device, I'm thinkin' you could cough up 20 of them.... Or thirty... Or even 50, would only be half. Does anyone know what else the phone can do other than the spoonfed 8 items??? Is there a further list anywhere on the web?
l admit the iPhone 4 is a sexy device. But its still playing catch up in many areas compared to Android. Android is a head overall. All the iPhone 4 has is a really nice screen and thats about it.
You can read just how iPhone is just playing catch up to Android here:
http://getyourgadgetsgoing.com/2010/06/10/areas-that-iphone-4-still-crumble-to-android/
my favorite feature? it's the laminated glass that is put directly on top of the display. No more little dust particles that trap between the glass and screen that is literally impossible to remove.