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iPhone OS 4.0: All the New Features - iPhone - Gizmodo




The curtain has been pulled back on iPhone 4, and the list of new features is massive: There's multitasking (finally!), a refreshed interface, and literally hundreds of other changes, all coming this summer. Here's the full rundown.
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Multitasking is limited to audio streaming, VoIP and GPS apps, as well as a few other allowances: they can finish specific, important tasks in the background, for example. As far as non-music/nav/VoIP apps, those can be suspended in the background, but not left running. (See below.) Full details here.
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Local notifications: Notifications can be sent between apps on the phone, not just from remote servers. In other words, if something important happens in an app you've opened and moved away from, a notification will pop up in whatever app you're using at the time, effectively saying "switch back to me!" It's a fairly clever way to keep track of multiple apps without the need for a start bar or dock-type interface
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App folders: Now you can sort your apps into folders! That's homescreen clutter solved, just like that.
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• A new Mail app: Unified inboxes, multiple Exchange accounts, fast inbox switching, threaded messages: These new features are actually a huge deal, since the iPhone's mail client has barely changed since 2007, and Apple doesn't allow alternative mail apps.
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• iBooks: Oh hey, that iBooks ebook reader app and accompanying ebook store we first met on the iPad has ambled on down to the iPhone. Nice, since you can now take your books with you wherever you go, as oppose to wherever you go with your iPad. • Custom backgrounds: Jailbreakers have them. Hell, the iPad has them. Now you can choose a persistent background for your iPhone—and not just for the lockscreen.
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• iAd advertising: It looks like Apple's finally making use of Quattro, that mobile ad company it gobbled up a few months ago, by rolling out its own advertising platform
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• 5x digital zoom: Could this hint at a higher quality camera in the next hardware? 3.2 megapixels seems a bit low for 5x digital zoom.
• Bluetooth keyboards: Another carryover from the iPad, Bluetooth keyboard support will finally come to iPhone 4.
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Original iPhones, 3G Can't Fully Upgrade to iPhone OS 4 - iPhone - Gizmodo

iPhone 4.0's Game Center: Matchmaking, Leaderboards and Achievements - iPhone - Gizmodo
Apple's taking aim at the Xbox integration coming to Windows Phone 7 with its new Game Center. This new service will allow online play on your iPhone, complete with leaderboards and achievements.

Basically, this service will take control of online game play from app makers. Rather than pairing you up with someone to play with in each game, you'll go to the game center, pick which game you want to play, and it'll set you up with someone to play with.


There will also be unified leaderboards and achievements, which as we know are a great way to get people nice and addicted to their games. It should be launching "later this year," so it's not clear if it'll launch this summer with the rest of iPhone 4.0.
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Makes their HTC lawsuit even more ridiculous.
 
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iPhone OS 4.0: All the New Features - iPhone - Gizmodo




The curtain has been pulled back on iPhone 4, and the list of new features is massive: There's multitasking (finally!), a refreshed interface, and literally hundreds of other changes, all coming this summer. Here's the full rundown.
Click to expand...
Multitasking is limited to audio streaming, VoIP and GPS apps, as well as a few other allowances: they can finish specific, important tasks in the background, for example. As far as non-music/nav/VoIP apps, those can be suspended in the background, but not left running. (See below.) Full details here.
Click to expand...
Local notifications: Notifications can be sent between apps on the phone, not just from remote servers. In other words, if something important happens in an app you've opened and moved away from, a notification will pop up in whatever app you're using at the time, effectively saying "switch back to me!" It's a fairly clever way to keep track of multiple apps without the need for a start bar or dock-type interface
Click to expand...
App folders: Now you can sort your apps into folders! That's homescreen clutter solved, just like that.
Click to expand...
? A new Mail app: Unified inboxes, multiple Exchange accounts, fast inbox switching, threaded messages: These new features are actually a huge deal, since the iPhone's mail client has barely changed since 2007, and Apple doesn't allow alternative mail apps.
Click to expand...
? iBooks: Oh hey, that iBooks ebook reader app and accompanying ebook store we first met on the iPad has ambled on down to the iPhone. Nice, since you can now take your books with you wherever you go, as oppose to wherever you go with your iPad. ? Custom backgrounds: Jailbreakers have them. Hell, the iPad has them. Now you can choose a persistent background for your iPhone?and not just for the lockscreen.
Click to expand...
? iAd advertising: It looks like Apple's finally making use of Quattro, that mobile ad company it gobbled up a few months ago, by rolling out its own advertising platform
Click to expand...
? 5x digital zoom: Could this hint at a higher quality camera in the next hardware? 3.2 megapixels seems a bit low for 5x digital zoom.
? Bluetooth keyboards: Another carryover from the iPad, Bluetooth keyboard support will finally come to iPhone 4.
Click to expand...
Original iPhones, 3G Can't Fully Upgrade to iPhone OS 4 - iPhone - Gizmodo

iPhone 4.0's Game Center: Matchmaking, Leaderboards and Achievements - iPhone - Gizmodo
Apple's taking aim at the Xbox integration coming to Windows Phone 7 with its new Game Center. This new service will allow online play on your iPhone, complete with leaderboards and achievements.

Basically, this service will take control of online game play from app makers. Rather than pairing you up with someone to play with in each game, you'll go to the game center, pick which game you want to play, and it'll set you up with someone to play with.


There will also be unified leaderboards and achievements, which as we know are a great way to get people nice and addicted to their games. It should be launching "later this year," so it's not clear if it'll launch this summer with the rest of iPhone 4.0.
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Makes their HTC lawsuit even more ridiculous.
 
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These comments sum up my thoughts

Oh, so I see they've just taken all the thing jailbreakers have had and are making them official.

* Multitasking. [Kirikae & Backgrounder]
* Spell check [Inspell]
* Bluetooth keyboard [BTStack]
* User-defined wallpaper [Winterboard]
* App folders [Folders, Stack, and some others]

So in an entire year theyve added tap to focus, playlist creation, and fixed the mail app. Disappointing
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still no at-a-glance screen? i want my new emails, new text messages, new push notifications, and upcoming appointments all on one screen. why not get rid of that useless search page and replace it with something useful that every other freaking smartphone has?
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Wowee! A press conference to announce that you've adopted all of the features that Jailbreakers have had for years, to fix the blatant flaws in your UI. And if I have a 3G I can't have all of the features? Why not?

I am sick of Apple limiting their software to get people to upgrade their hardware. The 3Gs does a lot of things the 3g can't do, but should be able to do. Apple has done this on purpose, and it really bothers me. They have intentionally limited toe capabilities of the 3G, even though the hardware would allow it to work. Is there any reason I can't use the voice recognition feature of the 3Gs in the 3G? My 3G has a microphone.

Why can't I shoot video? I know the camera sucks in the 3g(probably the worst camera I have ever used in my entire life), but I have shot video with a jailbreak app, and it works, so don't tell me it isn't possible.
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Apple is moving away from being an inspiring company for being a milking cash-sucker. I don't really mind paying more for premium products, but from the last updates from Apple, we're paying more for pretty average stuff. And this iAd thing, it just starts to feel like a bloated thing.

They are giving us:

1) Folders. (duh)
2) Limited Multitasking (duh)
3) Digital Zoom (crappy stuff)
4) Custom Backgrounds (duuuuuuh)
5) Kinda decent mail app (mail is so 90's, why not give us a decent mobile iChat?)

for:

1) The oportunity to sell Books
2) The oporunity to sell Ads
3) A better way for them to sell games

So, they are giving us crappy update that they could have done already and in return they are pushing more ways to make more money, as if they aren't making enough already. I really hate the iAd thing... i hope this works mostly to support free apps. To charge 40% of revenue is awfully huge, btw.

I still like Apple products, I am still going to buy an Apple as my next computer to replace my current Macbook, but i really don't know for how long this fidelity will continue.

Namaste, Steve.

Don't be evil
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So it's over? That's it? I thought I just got in early, now it's just the same unified mailbox everyone else already has, and partial multitasking. Oh, and ads, super.

And now Jobs is making all these excuses, and making obnoxious comments about running unsigned Apps as being tantamount to letting your kids download porn apps? What a tool.

It's a cool update and all, and I won't bitch about new free features (even if I could jailbreak and get all them and more right now). But I'd be a lot more stoked if the EVO wasn't looking so awesome in comparison.
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I didn't see anything on that, bmac.

Jobs: If you see a stylus or a task manager, 'they blew it' -- Engadget
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Jobs: If you see a stylus or a task manager, 'they blew it'

By Nilay Patel posted Apr 8th 2010 2:48PM



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Steve Jobs is never one to mince words when taking questions from the press, and he just made it very clear how he feels about other platforms during the iPhone OS 4 event when asked about task management:
Q: How do you close applications when multitasking?
A: (Scott Forstall) You don't have to. The user just uses things and doesn't ever have to worry about it.
A: (Steve Jobs) It's like we said on the iPad, if you see a stylus, they blew it. In multitasking, if you see a task manager... they blew it. Users shouldn't ever have to think about it.
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Yeah, that pretty much sums up the Apple Way, but hey -- tell us how you really feel, Steve.
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is he only talking about this in the context of the iPhone/iPad environment? Often times, I find myself having to kill unresponsive apps when I multi-task on Macs, and that wouldn't be nice experience without some kind of a task manager at hand.
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i know, the stylus comment confused me, as im a man my fingers arent slim and womanly, so some tasks are hard to do with fingers
whats wrong with the stylus?
leave me and my manly body alone stephanie jobs!
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CentralMOBuck;1689933; said:
It looks like things are about to get really ugly between Adobe/Google and Apple.

Rumor: Adobe Prepping Lawsuit Against Apple - Adobe - Gizmodo
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The only thing that's interesting about this potential case is that apple made it a point to announce they were intentionally excluding adobe. Otherwise, this could have been "our hardware doesn't meet the requirements for the product" and it would never make it to court.
 
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