Apple Details iPhone OS 4.0

Today Apple announced details about the upcoming release of iPhone OS 4.0. We’ve heard a lot of rumors about just what it will include. Now it's coming and here are all the things you need to know about iPhone OS 4.0 (organized via techcocktail)

1. Multitasking - Finally! the new iPhone OS 4.0 will the ability for 7 multitasking services (APIs) on the iPhone. Some of these include:

• Background audio
• VoIP
• Background location
• Push notifications
• Local notifications
• Task completion

2. Folders - Users will be able to add folders to your home screen. Just drag two apps together and an folder is created with intelligent naming. Users will also be able to change their wallpaper background with ease.

3. Enhanced Email - The new mail offering will create a unified inbox pulling together all your account into one account. You can also now have multiple exchange accounts. Messages will be organized by thread which sounds very similar to Gmail.

4. iBooks - Just like the iPad the new iPhone OS will offer iBook with a bookstore where if you buy once you can read the book anywhere. Sync pages and bookmarks between devices. Users also get a free copy of Winnie the Pooh.

5. Enterprise features - The new OS will offer improved data protection, including data protection within third party apps as well as mobile device management which means that up until now companies would have to plug into iTunes to distribute apps but with the new OS they will be able to do it wireleslly from their own servers.

6. Game Center - Allows games players to challenge each other interactively and offers a leaderboard to track game play.

7. iAd - Apple announces the launch of a mobile advertising platform! The platform could serve 1 Billion ad impressions a day. Apple wants to offer amazing advertising experiences leveraging HTML 5. Apple will host and sell the ads and give 60% of the revenue to developers. This could be huge for Apple Developers of free applications. Ads will have access to many of the same Apple APIs as apps (i.e. like location and some level of accelerometer access, etc).

These “tentpoles” as Jobs called them, are going to be released to developers today and to iPhone users later this summer. and they will run completely on iPhone 3GS and iPod Touch 3rd generation models, won’t run completely on 3G and iPod Touch 2nd gen models. More than 100 user features are being added and developers will have access to more than 1500 new APIs. As for the iPad, iPhone 4.0 OS is coming to the iPad this Fall.

My thoughts on the Apple iPad

iPad is here, not a tablet computer, not a netbook. It starts at $499, the price is a lot better than what I thought it would be, and we know what the Apple iPad does do. such as: iBooks, Games,10-hr battery life, Wi-Fi, 3G, green tech etc. Apple says "It's the best way to experience the web, email, photos, and videos." But I have an iPhone and I have a Macbook Pro. I’m not feeling a huge need to have an iPad. I have to say I'm kinda disappointed and confused in the iPad.

Here's what I don't like about it:

• Huge Ugly. It seems like a bigger iPhone or iPod Touch. Grrrr
• The A4 chip seems like a bad idea. No way Apple is going to consistently be better than Intel or AMD at making low power chips.
• No camera. which means no video conferencing and no quick shots for posting. Please! even the new iPod Nano has one!
• 16, 32, or 64GB is all you get, because there’s lack of an SD card reader built directly into the iPad.
• You won’t be able to plug in an external USB keyboard or/and a digital camera you already own without buying a separate USB adapter.
• Only runs apps from the App Store. Want to run a different browser on your iPad? Too bad.
• No Flash for now, bad enough on the iPhone. maybe Apple is hoping that HTML5 will take off quickly and start to disintermediate Flash as the primary technology powering video playback on the web?
• Perhaps the biggest disappointment is, No multitasking! saying I can't listening to Last.fm radio while reading my email? I can't have Twitter client open at the same time as my browser? No, thanks!
• It uses microSIMs that literally no one else uses, then it doesn't support China Unicom 3G.
• Basically it works the same as the iPhone. I want a 10-inch iPhone running Mac OS X, not this big iPod Touch.
• The Name iPad. Apple should have watched this MadTV spoof "Apple iPad" from 2007 first. LOL

Here’s the problem with all this. That’s not to say the iPad won’t sell, or that I don’t want one. I don't think Apple will have any trouble selling these things. Some people say Apple is Evil that Apple plans for the iPhone OS to be the future of its product line. Because the iPhone OS is designed for Apple’s total control, not only does the hardware have to be flawless, the software must be too. and the only way to ensure that is to have Apple approve every inch of it. You can say it's a closed platform, you can say that App store may not be open, but third-party development will extend the iPad to do things we can’t even dream up, just give it 6 months and we'll see.

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WWDC2009: iPhone 3GS & 3.0

iPhone OS

• 1,000,000 SDK downloaded. 50,000 apps in store. 40,000,000 iPhones & iPod touches sold already
  
• New OS 3.0 available today with 100 new features on June 17th to all iPhone users for free and for $9.95 to iPod Touch users
  
• New OS supports cut, copy, paste, MMS support, landscape mode in all Apple applications
• Support for sending Photos, contacts, audio files, etc over the cell network
• MMS Support won't be available by AT&T till later this summer
• Spotlight: enables search across entire phone, contacts, apps and details within apps, etc.
• Tethering allowing users to share the Internet connection with with Mac/PC, USB or Bluetooth
• Parental controls introduced
• iTunes: Rent and purchase movies right from the phone!
• iTunesU also now available on the iPhone
• Safari Mobile: Performance upgrades, HTTP streaming audio/video, Autofill, HTML 5 support
• Find My iPhone: MobileMe Service launched that allows users to locate iPhone on a map then send wipe command to delete all items on the phone remotely
• In App Purchases: enables the purchase of content within applications
  
• Real-time data straight out of iPhone (i.e. medical alerts)
• Turn-by-turn navigation via TomTom GPS app on the iPhone
• Textbooks on the iPhone via Iceberg app on the iPhone
• ZipCar on the iPhone allows users to book and even unlock a car with the iPhone

iPhone 3GS

• iPhone 3Gs is for SPEED
• Photo Camera - 3.2 Megapixel auto focus - Has a new autofocus, tap to focus, autobalance, low light sensitivity, auto macro
• Video Camera - 30 frames per second with auto focus, exposure control, and more
• Videos are kept in your photo library and you EDIT videos on the phone!
• Videos can be auto share to iTunes, MobileMe and YouTube
• Voice control - make calls & play songs, playlists and play similar songs with the sound of your voice
• Digital Compass
• Accessibility settings - voice over, zoom in, invert colors and mono audio
• Nike Plus Support 
• Hardware encryption for business
• Better battery life
• Most environmentally friendly iPhone
• Priced for $199 for 16GB and $299 for 32GB in black and white
• Available June 19th

iPhone 3GS Guided Tour: http://movies.apple.com/iphone/guidedtour/

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