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Today was the announcement of the iPhone OS 4 and the features it holds. There has been lots of rumours and stir about whats going to be in the next OS for iPhone.

Steve Jobs started with some Figures….

• 450,000 iPads sold to date
• 600,000 iBooks Downloaded to Date
• 3.5 Million iPad Apps Downloaded to Date.
• 4 Billion total Apps Downloaded
• 185,000 Apps in the App Store
• 3,500 iPad Apps in the App Store
• 64% of US browsing is iPhone based.
• 50 Million iPhones Sold
• 85 Million iPhones & iPod Touches Sold

Steve then went on to iPhone OS 4

Released :-

• iPhone – Summer 2010
• iPad – Fall 2010
• Developer Preview Available Today

100 New Features

7 “Tentpole” Features:-

1. Multitasking.
2. Folder
3. unified inbox
4. iBooks
5. enterpise
6. gamecentre
7. iAd

There were a couple of features which steve jobs made clear were not going to be in there….

1. No Flash
2. No Java

There were also a few other ’smaller’ features which were made apparent during the event

• Home Screen Wallpaper
• Lock screen iPod controls can control Pandora
• Voice over IP

So did steve announce things that people wanted?

• A New Lock Screen? – Not really.
• A New Home Screen – Well its now got Wallpaper feature!
• Vertical Swiping – None mentioned
• Overhaul App navigation via Folders or Éxpose – Yes folder features but not éxpose.
• Multitasking – Definitely now a feature!
• Flash – A Blunt “NO”
• Ability to Disable landscape mode – Not mentioned at the event.
• Ability for Apps to remember where they were – Well this properly comes under multitasking.
• Ability to Remove apple branded Apps – Not shown at the event although i guess you could put them in a folder to get them off the main home screen!
• A Documents Folder – Nope not seen.
• Calendar events on the Lock Screen – No
• Local App notifications – Yes! Local Push notifications.
• Background Audio whilst in other Apps – Yes works through the Multi-Tasking feature!

So it seems Apple have listened to some features but not to others. But over time i guess they could be added! The more obvious features like multi-tasking have been developed to the top of their ability! And apparently doesn’t affect battery life of Performance!

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