iPhone OS 4.0 Features

In some few hours from now, we will be hearing news about Apple iPhone OS 4.0, the latest firmware update from Apple community. It been only five days back Apple rocked us with iPad and today Apple is going to give us a sneak peek of its next generation iPhone OS 4.0. The event is expected to start at 10:00 AM Pacific time at Apple’s Cupertino campus. Since the news were out in the wild for than a week, there are certain expectations on iPhone OS 4.0. Geeks and tech enthusiast had already came up with some features which can be expected from iPhone OS 4.0 and we as an iPad and iPhone app developer decided to come up with our expected features and what we look forward from Apple in today’s event.

Multi-tasking: Multi-tasking is going to be one of the most expected features in iPhone OS 4.0. So with this feature you can run multiple application at the background and switch between applications without any time delay. Sounds really interesting, I wish this should be included.

Graphical and UI changes: Graphics and user interface is going to see an update, to enhance the navigation of OS 4.0 much easier and also to work efficient. Possibilities of improvements on default application which comes pre installed with iPhone. We believe iPhone OS 4.0 can come with refreshed home screen to give a new look for their next generation OS.

Firmware updates: iPhone OS 4.0 can be made available only for iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS and certainly iTouch will be ruled out from this update.

Multi-touch: Multi touch geasture can be an addition to the iPhone OS 4.0.

Higher resolution support: Apple iPhone is still using its pretty old 480*320, which is actually an out dated resolution. Since many new handsets offer 800*600 or better screens, it may stuck their mind to come with support for higher resolutions. But running a low resolution apps on a higher resolution screen makes apps looks so blurry.

Secondory Camera: iPhone really lacks the feature of video calling, which can be normally seen in other handsets. I think Apple may take this into consideration as we all are been talking about this feature for more than a year. I hope, support for secondary camera will be included with iPhone OS 4.0.

All in one – Email Inbox: We use different emails to stay in touch with office and personal works and it does not mean that we need to separate it by different inboxes. It actually annoys when we tap, tap to get back to the next mail box. To solve this problem, iPhone OS 4.0 may come up with an universal inbox to check all your e-mails at one place.

Improved Voice-to-text features: We all know Android’s phones are getting popular because of their cool features offered. Particularly Google’s voice-to-text enables searching and surfing much easier. We all know that text-to-voice feature is already available with OS 3.0, but it has certain limitations comparing to the one offered in Android 2.1. If Apple enhance voice-to-text feature in iPhone OS 4.0, it would help iPhone users to send email just by speaking. If this features comes out in iphone 4.0, I would say Wow!

Music on the Cloud: Storing information of cloud has become a trend these days and I am sure Apple may introduce iTunes cloud to listen songs streamed over the web. However if Apple won’t support music on cloud, there are possibilities for other cloud computing players like Amazon to be jumped into the game.

So finally, we are at the end of expected features and now its time for us to wait and watch, what Apple has on their mind about iPhone OS 4.0 features.

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