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iPhone OS 4 - What You will Get!

update:
- official press release can be found here
- to check out the video of the sneak peek, head on to Apple's official site @ this link

• Multi-tasking: Double-clicking the Home Button opens up a tray of applications

• Faster App Switching

• Notifications can now be sent from the apps to you. Think of it as a way to remind you when you switch an app and something critical happened.

• Folders are now introduced to iPhone OS 4. Clutter no more. A folder can store apps, and also be put into the dock.
  

• Unified Inbox and support for threaded messages in new email app. Multiple Exchange accounts supported. Exchange 2010 is supported too.

• Wallpaper for your homescreen and lock screen (Jailbreakers have them long ago)

• iBooks for iPhone

• Game Center - Apple is introducing a centralised gaming service (think Playstation Network or Xbox Live). Multiplayer, leaderboard, social interactivity features will be there.
  

• iAd - Developers can use APIs to develop ads, a plugin that keeps the users in the app rather than clicking a link and popping uip a browser window. You can also do things within the ad such as playing a game, watching a video, etc. Done in HTML 5 only. Think of it as a popover ad window with interactive features. You can even buy things within the ad. Apple will sell and host ads, give developers 60% split of revenue

• Video recording now has "tap to focus" feature

• Camera function will get 5x digital zoom.

• Better Voice Control - Composing your email with your voice, anyone?
  

• Support for bluetooth keyboards in OS 4

• Better data encryption. There will be APIs available so developers can encrypt stuff inside their own apps. Emails and attachments can be encypted

• Calendar Access - Apps can now create and edit events directly in the Calendar app with Event Kit.

• You can now use cell towers to do location tracking instead of GPS. A feature that Apple implements to resolve issues such as location tracking apps that do not update once you exit from it.
  

• Companies can distribute apps via their servers instead of via iTunes on WLAN

• Support for SSL VPN from Juniper and Cisco

• iPhone OS 4 will get background VOIP feature
  

• 1500 new APIs added into the new OS. Apple claims 100 new user features

• No Flash support. HTML 5 is integrated for iAd
  

iPhone OS 4 will be launching this Summer for iPhone 3GS and iPod 3rd gen.

iPhone 3G and iPod 2nd gen will not get full features. Multi-tasking will not be supported for these 2 models. The old iPhone wasn't mentioned.

iPad users will get it on Fall 2010

Developer preview is available  today.



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Multi-task tray

Source: Twitter, Google, Engadget, Gizmodo