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.
