iPhone OS 4.0: All the New Features

These are all software changes, what about hardware? And will the iPhone look the same as it always has? I think I'm not the only one who's gotten annoyed of it's same appearance generation after generation. They could make some improvements.

Did they say if it would cost?

This was a meeting to announce the new OS, why would they go off onto the new hardware tangent? They announce those things later in the summer (probably around the time 4.0 is released for the phones and iPods)

Really Omaracoustic? You just had to find something to complain about didn't you? How many times did you have to read the article before you could think of something negative to say? 4 maybe 5 times? How about you take your negativity and gtfo.
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Holy crap this is the moment I've been waiting for!!!! Finally I can stream Pandora and watch porn at the same time!!!!

The unified mailbox is a plus. Now if yahoo didn't charge to use POP...

Multitasking is great but it tends to just drain the battery, which already isn't great on the iphone

good one...

Re: cinwick

Did you even read the article? The way that the multitasking has been implemented, there will be a very minimal increase in battery usage, unless of course you are listening to pandora, talking to someone on Skype, downloading an app or some other file and also surfing the web or playing a game... THAT would drain the battery.

Also watch the keynote for a better explanation of all the mentioned features: www.apple.com/podcasts/apple_keynotes/apple_keynotes.xml

Half this shit on here was available to me when I had my jailbroken iPod Touch. 3 YEARS AGO. Folders, backgrounds, etc. Okay maybe not half, but seriously, it's taken Apple this long to get with the picture? There's so much more this software could do if they just opened it up a little..

Great update, I was hoping multi tasking would be added for a long time. Didn't buy an iPad so far and with the delay on the OS update I'll probably wait even longer before I consider it!

"3.2 megapixels seems a bit low for 5x digital zoom."

Seriously. Nothing is too low for digital zoom, nor too high. Digital zoom is nothing, it is an useless feature that makes me want to slap anyone who even bothers to mention it. It does not hint at a higher resolution camera, it hints at the fact that apple wants to make money by telling people lies.
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Can't wait to download OS 4.0 to my 3GS iphone.

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I was mad when I heard about Apple only accepting credit-debit card payments, supposedly allowing Apple to track marketing and prevent wholesale exportation of their devices to China. What crap. As if Apple could prevent China from knocking off their tech. As if their unlawful restriction keeps any illegal act from happening. It is a discriminatory sales practice, and the $20.00 bill in my wallet says it is legal tender. Maybe Apple knows something about our money that the rest of us don't, huh? They sure did keep that handicapped lady who had saved for six months from buying one, though. Company policy worked like a champ there, Steve.

Messaging on this mobile phone has been given something of a boost by the inclusion of the iMessage, which is a BBM-a-like service for iOS devices. It can be used on any device running iOS 5, which means conversations can be easily carried across on loads of Apple products without an issue. While many will expect iMessage to be a separate app in the same manner as BBM, it simply jumps in when a relevant phone is on the other end of the conversation, meaning essentially free text messaging and cool features like read receipts and being able to see when the other person is typing. However, this will be more useful for iPhone 3GS and 4 models, as it's surely only good to replace text messaging for those that need to save money and haven't got a price plan that offers thousands of messages for free each month. iPhones have always been looked at as decent messaging devices, and that's certainly true when it comes to email. There's a unified inbox for all your accounts, with multiple email addresses supported on the phone. Setting these up is as simple as you'd imagine, with only an address and password needed in most situations. As we mentioned earlier, it's so easy to keep track of your emails thanks to the new notifications system, but it's hardly anything new, so not really a unique selling point. The keyboard is another great selling point from Apple for its iPhone - some people have complained that it's a bit hit and miss in the past, but most people should have become trained in the art of tapping out a message on a touchscreen, so most will quickly be up to speed with the well-known keyboard. There's a new addition to the keyboard, and that's an option to speak out the message reply using Siri. It's almost unerring in its accuracy compared to other voice recognition systems, although you do need to say things like 'comma' or 'exclamation mark' to add in the punctuation. We sent 100 messages using Siri to see the accuracy, and found that the accuracy was around 45%, although shorter messages were obviously better. However, we were relieved to be able to head back to tapping out our messages on the keyboard, as you could make sure what you wrote was correct first go. If you're going to speak your messages, why not just call the person?