iOS 4: The new features explained

From multi-tasking to iBook reading; what iOS 4 can do

The new name for the first time four IOS is correct again in April, but has not yet been released. And brand new "Start with four iPhone, which today was at the Apple WWDC Keynote. If you have a quick overview of what you are looking at the current operating system, not on you ...

Multi-tasking
Outline of the fact that multi-tasking is the wrong way can drain the battery life "and your phone number feel sluggish, this feature is most wanted in seven key areas of service divided. "Background Audio" to listen to music while you do other things like research titles for purchase on iTunes, for example.

VOIP is curated by new features that you will receive calls even when a VoIP application (eg Skype) is running in the background. Third in the queue was multi-tasking "basic position" so that you listen to the instructions satnav while still listening to music. Completion of Multi-tasking line-ups push notifications, notifications are local, and the completion of Quick app switching exchange between programs.

Folders
Folders can you group similar applications such as games or productivity tools. Once created, the folders are automatically named within the category of applications. Can then be manually re-appointed. The new look interface means you can be up to 2160 applications, in contrast to the current 180th

Enhanced Mail
"Enhanced Mail 'means that all your mail in a mailbox that MobileMe and Exchange accounts to manage Yahoo met in one place. These include rapid transfer inbox and the ability to organize by thread.

iBook
iBook preferred live now on the iPhone, IPAD, like Apple has decided to integrate the e-reader in the smaller text screening. You can enjoy the literary content of the store and iBook wirelessly synchronize your books between platforms.

Enterprise Update
Business users will be pleased to know that new features in the company, of which the most important features include support for multiple Exchange accounts, sales and support wireless app SSL VPN secure networking were added.

Game Center
In a trial, Microsoft Windows 7 Phone plans integration with Xbox Live's rival, Apple has the "Game Centre, which carries a strong social network feel to your iPhone game. He translates essentially as a means of posting results, tables and advertisements inviting friends in the games.

IAD
Finally and perhaps most importantly (for application developers, at least) was the inauguration of the IAD. Taking a unique mobile advertising on the application within an App uses multi-tasking capabilities of the iPhone OS 4.0 and HTML 5 to bring Apple's new favorite pastime, interactive advertising with embedded video applications and games.

Apple will sell and host of the ads, put a tidy 40% of revenues. In this innovative approach to the ad once angrily You never wanted to click, Jobs said: "What we want is interaction with IAD and provide the excitement." The iPhone OS 4.0 will be launched this summer and is fully compatible with the iPhone 3G and iPod Touch Gen 3, 4, and the iPhone, which starts in July

iOS 4: Top 10 new features for the iPhone OS

Apple has finally started IOS 4, the new operating system for the iPhone and iPod Touch devices. The long awaited new operating system brings the function of the multi-tasking phones exist for the iPhone 3G before it a fixture on the iPhone 4 later this week.

The new operating system in your iPhone 4, which will come with preinstalled software, but that does not mean adding a further serious blow to the already impressive arsenal of 3GSl iPhone. After the new operating system bunged on a mobile 3G iPhone, we share a quick hot iOS4 10 best features from the set 100 new features touted in Apple.

Update: iPhone 4 launched

Apple iPhone unleashed the four - the "thinnest smartphone in the world". Did you hear all voices, all the losses absorbed, and we can say that iPhone is really under the hood of Apple's fourth

And "finally out of the bag, but the latest iPhone is the king of the jungle? Check the specifications iPhone 4 below and let us know if you are in seventh heaven, or" disappointed with Apple's latest in a series of launches of the show .

Update: iPhone 4 launched

The queues are stopped, and the iPhone is now in the wilderness, 4 This is our fourth full iPhone review with video, and if that was not enough, check out these 4 iPhone wonderful photos of all the details and innovative design. After all, not everything went smoothly with the iPhone signal reception 4, as we discussed in our videos, and the solution of rubber here.

Construction and Design

The iPhone has a new look with stainless steel for strength, glass for scratch resistance and was ordered food instead of bikinis. The super skinny younger brother is now 9.3 mm thick, 24 percent thinner than the S-and argue that Apple's iPhone 3G is the "thinnest smartphone on the planet."

It is available in black and white.

Processor

Under the hood of the iPhone is Apple's chip packaging A4 - the same processor that powers IPAD should improve with greater efficiency, the battery life.

The operating system

IOS4 will run away, the same systems of iPhone OS 4.0 iPhone just like the name.

Camera
One of the major error by a front camera points out, Apple has been corrected plus there is a 5-megapixel camera on the back with an LED flash for the first time, 5 x digital zoom for the recipient. There is also focus a touch function.

HD Camcorder

One of the most impressive improvements, and some have, and should the market flip pocket HD camcorder point shoot and trembling in his boots, will the iPhone 4 record HD video at 720p at 30fps. It will focus also boast cock video, and perhaps more importantly, integrated editing and sharing with one click. Citizen journalism is alive and well.

Movie for iPhone
For $ 4.99 you can now have a lot of functionality of desktop software on your iPhone, including the recording directly in the timeline.

Storage

Up to 32 GB

Display: Retina and 4x more pixels

The display is 3.5 inch, 960x640 pixel screen resolution - four times more pixels than the iPhone 3G. With 326 px per inch, 800:1 contrast ratio, has been praised outstanding OLED.

Battery life: 40 percent better battery

The battery is larger and coupled with the performance of the processor A4 Apple, Apple says it has 7 hours 3G talk, 6 hours of 3G browsing, 10 hours shipping Wi-Fi, 10 hours of music, 40 hours of music and 300 hours standby.

Special features of the iPhone 4

Another potentially complain iPhone by FaceTime brings video telephony, that finally the opportunity to video conference for the iPhone, the iPhone, but unfortunately is suppressed only 4-4 and even the iPhone will only work if wifi.

Multi-tasking has come. Another box ticked late, but check the same from Apple. This will support:
Gyroscope, accelerometer, GPS, and tied for 6-axis motion detection Dual-microphone noise reduction Compass Proximity Ambient light sensor

Connectivity

Connectivity and quad-band HSDPA / HSUPA with 7,2 Mbit / s is a potential down to 5.8. A chip 802.11n Wi-Fi speeds provide blistering, when the field.
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6 Takes on Apple's iPhone 4

We heard your first impressions, but now some official iPhone 4 reviews are in. and 4, still a good sound. Here are the highlights of what reviewers have to say first of all.

New York Times:

"The first thing you notice is the new form. In spite of a probable case of battery Hitachi (16 percent, last one whole day), a faster processor and completely updated, the new model is much thinner and narrower than before. What is the Possible In part, the trick Balancing the back. No more is gracefully curved - a plan that, if you think about it, created space has lost around the rectangular components. The new iPhone is powered by two plates of glass, front and back wrapped in a stainless steel band.

The result is beautiful, and because there is more plastic, it feels solid and Lexus-like. But he no longer feels like a worry stone reassuring, and it is now impossible to distinguish by touch, as you face in your pocket. The new metal volume control and mute are much stiffer. Still, Apple says the iPhone is thinner than four smartphones in the world, and most people approve the trade-offs.

Engadget:

"It's not just the face of the phone, which has undergone a change - the iPhone is all within 4 new ones. For starters, Apple has shifted from Samsung built ARM Cortex-A8 CPU-based 3G used in costume-A4 Chips used in the IPAD, that's funny ... is a CPU-based ARM Cortex-A8. While the company has not said what advise the clock frequency of the processor, we have something advertised below 1GHz for his cousin tablet. The phone is the 3G annoying, so we are not on the complaints volleyball now - especially, it seems to make the graphics faster, and the response was somewhat higher, although it is true, was not blowing the doors from the joint. It is definitely faster , but the 3G speed does not hurt our eyes, so that is not as wild as a significant leap to 3G 3G. "

USA Today:

"I've never been crazy about the camera soon on the iPhone, but the main camera for the new iPhone has come far. 4 The iPhone sports a 5 megapixel camera with 5x digital zoom and auto focus - first for an iPhone - an LED flash. I took some decent pictures in low light conditions, but had some results grainy, too. There is a camera ideal for quick entry screen change. Close-up with 5x digital zoom, which is an IOS taken four also had it so -so. "

Boing Boing:

"Battery life heel with earlier versions of this device was an Achilles'. And 'improved considerably, and this is a good thing, because much of what this unit can require more power for more time. You' re gonna more battery want. With the use of light, but with 3G and WiFi data turned the whole time, I got a full four days of battery life. heavy with video recording and playback, instant messaging, e-mail and data- over 3G connection, I have had a full day of battery life. I did not have enough time before this review make a careful analysis of the reference against claims by Apple, so supply can not specific percentages, but it felt like life the battery was a good 20-25% more meat. "

CNET:

"Apple has a unique talent who want to tell us something that we never we knew wanted. The iPhone has a four 940x640 pixels (or 300 326 pixels per square inch)" Retinal Display ", which is four times the resolution of previous iPhone models." s more, uses it the same image on the IPS, which found with a contrast ratio of 800:1 IPAD. Although we are always up to the current exhibition iPhone, Apple rarely thought on our laurels. The company also needs to work with beautiful AMOLED displays and TFT displays we've seen on many competing phones like the HTC Android Evo 4G.

In our brief hands-on, the display is crystal clear (words by Brian Tong). Since all make the same text, we had no problems with reading a series of web pages. Photos seemed very nice, especially when you compare the same picture of a 4G iPhone and iPhone 3G. We are not inclined to believe all the claims about the capabilities of the Apple displays, but it is undeniable that looks good. "

WSJ:

"Both Apple and AT & T told me, worked it to the iPhone 4 do a better job with AT & T network. For example, the phone itself is a prominent stainless steel trim piece, surrounded as acts of a large antenna. And Apple has said that the phone trying to turn, every band is to get on the net less densely populated and less affected by interference, the quality of the signal highlights of his raw power. AT & T Said, but also some changes made to its network with the new iPhone in mind

iPhone 4, a new leap in technology for the Apple smartphone

To renew your Smartphone, Apple is based on a new design, a new configuration and, above all, a new operating system.


With its new design, the iPhone 4 reviews the configuration of the phone Apple on the rise and the new office operating system, called IOS Gia 4. It offers video calling, 5-megapixel-Fotoapparat and is available in 16 and 32GB in black or white.


So, the iPhone has been found (or not) in a Region of Brewery Cupertino was actually the fourth iteration of Apple's Smartphone. If the iPhone has changed considerably between the external version of the 3G and 3G S, the difference is obvious in this case. Less rounded and more fein, the iPhone is indeed four rings with a metal frame, which is the device structure Antennas dienen kommen.


Superior finish and is a kind glass bottom lens extremely strong. Protects an impressive screen resolution. Believe Apple is the highest resolution and highest pixel density ever seen on the screen of a mobile phone. Retina is his screen name, offers a definition of 960 x 640 pixels per density of 326 dpi.
All for a diagonal of 3.5 inches. For comparison, the iPhone 3G Posted definition of D and a 480 x 320 pixels with a resolution of 163 dpi for the same diagonal. The IPS LCD panel capacity (best viewing angle), but also AMOLED guarantees a ratio of 800:1 Contrast indicated.


Apple finds mobile Video Conference

Another new exterior double 5 Megapixel Kamera. The one back in, an LED-Blitz can also TORCH ACTION kommen in Video mode, and a front for video calls. While you can switch between them during a video call.
Apple seems to have discovered that the French sold us players at the beginning of 3G. Some differences. First, FaceTime is the name of the service will operate between iPhone 4. Those who hope to chat with iChat users will be charged. Even more damaging, FaceTime can not use, for now, the 3G networks. It 's a need to use Wi-Fi network, which now can be 802.11n.
E 'per meet minimum level of quality that Apple has resolved or is that American players, including 3G networks, already staggering under the traditional practices, have set foot on? Hard to say. Probably a bit 'of both.


Autonomy and processor are doped

Inside, Apple also announced new products. Three are worthy of note. The first is the introduction of Apple's processor A4. It is not known at this time is whether the same model built in the IPAD (ARM processor einem 1 GHz). In any case, this is a nice jump in terms of computing power, since the 3G S Integra einem 600 MHz ARM processor.
The second is the arrival of a three-axis gyroscope, useful pro games? Finally, the third is the larger battery. According to Apple, this would be an increase of 40% autonomy. It would increase from 5 to 7 Erz in voice communication.

The Revolution will be the Software

Ultimately, this could Tarif the difference in the long run, the arrival of the iPhone OS 4, will now be called IOS 4. Name change makes sense, since the operating system (OS) running on both the iPhone (3G, 3G and S 4) that the iPod touch (2nd and 3rd Generation) or IPAD. The update is free for all Plattaforme.
The big news is obviously multitasking. Will be possible to quickly switch between applications without rebooting the system. Every day, another innovation that will change the life of the Arrival Date. They are created by dragging the icon of another application on. Then you can pack up to 12 questions (the limit of the current beta version of the operating system).
And, ein popular demand, Mail now show all the e-mail inbox, General. You can always browse course per address. In total, Apple has announced more than a hundred new features, some of which should improve the integration of iPhone in professional computing environments.
In addition, Apple announced the arrival on an iPhone version of iMovie, the software-to Videobearbeitung - if it passes the validation process of the producer, Steve Jobs joked during his keynote. You can make small ein Video 720p and mounted directly on their smartphone before sending them via MMS or upload them. pro iMovie iPhone will cost $ 4.99 a of the price in Euros is not yet published.


However, we know when the iPhone 4 will be available in Europe. It was not until 24 June. The price is only $ 199 for the 16GB model, if the user subscribes to two years. 4 For The iPhone will be available gegebener sizes, 16 and 32 GB zu gegebener colors, white or black.

Positive points

* Attractive design
* M0re powerful processor
* Run up
* 5 megapixel camera sensor
* Videoconferencing, perhaps
* iOS 4 sure


Negative points

* FaceTime only Wi-Fi with other iPhone 4
* Removable battery yet


Technical specifications

System
iOS 4
Keyboard
No physical keyboard
Play Audio
Yes
Videorecording
Yes
Telephony
Yes
Integrated modem
Yes

Apple iPhone 4 32GB - User Review

Pro: The design is excellent. It feels like no other phone in his hand. The screen is incredibly sharp and clear, better than anything I have seen and my girlfriend HTC EVO as a comparison. This new OS is great. And so are the cameras.

Cons: It is made of glass all around, so I hope I will not fall.
Summary: If you have never have an iPhone, this is getting to ... Despite ATT. And if you have a 3G or 3G and its worth the upgrade. CNET people always hated Apple so surprised that I'm just a warm welcome. One can say that the trend in their praise. Fortunately, does the world not care what CNET thinks the shit.

Apple iPhone 4 First Look

Pros: This phone is fast. The screen is beautiful. Multitasking! (Finally) space is impressive (and faster), the camera flash is surprisingly bright. Even the speaker is louder and clearer. Battery life is much longer. Many small improvements.

Cons: No control, which are not available earlier models. Stuck AT & T, no flash, blah blah blah ...
Summary: I will not sit here and go on about is just awesome, I will share my personal experience, what I want on the iPhone and because I like to give the new update.

I was updated with a 3G iOS4. It stank. iOS4 slowed too much, and even before that was approaching two years and felt slow and sluggish. I had heard that the 3G iOS4 ran much better, but that's not what I am in a way that was not really matter to me.

Major:

I text a lot - not just photos, but a set of texts. The messaging application began with just bothers me, for something to catch what I was trying to do to wait. What I wanted was a significant increase in speed and ability to multitask. The iPhone offers 4th

If you have never used a IPAD, the iPhone has seen four very similar in performance. And 'freakishly fast and multitasking is just great. I use the Pandora application all the time while driving and I can finally use maps to understand where I am, without interrupting the music goes. Yay! The messaging application is significantly faster, which is great. And you can back and forth from app to Safari in the mail Pandora zip ... what you want and flies only.

Small is beautiful:

The screen is large. Any description that you just have not heard. I do not bother to order the technical specifications, say the critics, or, as Steve Jobs called the "magic". What matters is that regardless of what you expect, is sharper, brighter, clearer and more vivid than what you had in mind.

The battery lasts longer - much longer. We all use our mobile in a different way, so we get all the different results, but there is a precise, noticeable improvement here.

The phone feels solid and strong overall performance. As a matter of habit, I try not to let my dog chews on it or throw it between the rooms, but only a more solid feel than previous models, it does not - were not bad to begin with.

The camera takes great pictures and video. But we already knew that.

The sound is better. You know someone who has an IPAD and told me, 's audio output was much better, but I could not really see how it could be given that all iPod / iPhone / iWhatevers always had good sound. Well, sounds like the audio output (and also the speaker) is much better on the iPhone even 4, which is nice, as I see it as a machine such as an iPod and Pandora. A lot.

Finally, the iPhone syncs much faster 4th I'm not sure why - probably working the fastest processor and memory, or many small things together - but the backup, sync and transfer of data and applications / video / music all transfer faster.

Cons?:

I have seen reports of problems with the reception. This is the point: Yes, I can drop the bar when I choke on the phone with my hands. But seriously - what phone does not, at least to some extent? All that I can say is that to call it not a problem for me with about an hour as I did to me yesterday afternoon,.

Without doubt, the iPhone 4 that the iPhone should have been from day one. If you like the iPhone, you will be the fourth If you have not fallen so far, you probably do not like this either.