iPhone Reviews

At one of the most anticipated events of this summer, Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone OS 4.0 which created a whole deal of buzz in the past couple of weeks. You might have come across a lot of rumours on what will and what won’t make it to the latest version OS of the most happening phone on earth. Now the cat is out of the bag and here is a sneak peak of the real deal. The iPhone OS 4.0 will have over 100 new user features, out of which seven features; Apple calls as “Tentpole” features are of particular importance.

The event:

The introduction of the iPhone OS 4.0 was held on 8th of April 2010, 10AM. As soon as Jobs was up on the stage, he said that Apple was excited about iPhone 4 and thanked the reviewers for their positive support on the new iPad.

This was followed by a few choice quotes from some of the early reviews. The revolutionary iPad sold 300,000 on the first day and in the next couple of days, the numbers reached a peak of 450,000. This was followed by some more stats on the iBooks and iPad Apps.

Finally, when Steve moved on to iPhone, he was happy about the fact that Apple has won the 2010 JD Power award and are proud to hold his achievement for 3 consecutive years. This was followed by a very interesting graph on the US mobile users and Apple’s Market share on that. iPhone seems to possess a massive 64% of mobile browser user share, and everything else added together just makes half of iPhone (Android: 19%, Blackberry: 9% and Other Phones: 8%). Apple has sold 50million iPhones to date and if we consider Touch too, the sales shoots up to 85million iPhones and iPod Touches.

iPhone OS 4.0 Preview:

The unveiling of the most anticipated iPhone 4.0 OS began with Steve Jobs saying “So Today we are giving a dev preview of the iPhone OS 4. We have been working on this for a while and it is pretty great. We will be shipping it this summer with and release a developer preview today”.

Apple has included over 1500 new APIs in the OS4.0 and the developers get to access calendar, In-App SMS, Photo Library, Quick Look, Full access to still and video camera data, full map overlays and heaps more. The OS includes a framework known as “Accelerate” which handles math functions that is hardware-accelerated. Also as mentioned earlier, the OS also sports 100 novel user features namely: Create Playlists, Sync IMAP notes, 5x Digital Zoom, Nested Playlists, Card Dav, Tap-to-focus video, Places in photos, iPod Out, Home Screen Wall paper, rummage around SMS/MMS messages, file/delete search results from mails, suggestions from web search, Bluetooth Keyboards, CalDav Invitations, Spell Check, Persistent Wi-Fi and lots more.

iPhone OS 4.0 Highlight Features:

Multitasking:

Multitasking is now available in iPhone and it is done in such a way that it does not hinder either performance or battery life. Apparently, these two vital issues is something that almost every other mobile platform has failed to handle, and we guess Apple has managed to tame both these issues like a pro via their multitasking feature. Apple has offered seven multitasking services and so you will be able to make Voice over IP call while playing games or checking mail and just find a restaurant while listening to Pandora and more. Background location is a new part of the OS and it will work with the social apps with turn-by-turn applications.

Folders:
With this feature you will be able to organise your apps better grouping them into folders with a simple drap-and-drop. With this application, you get faster access to your favourites and will also be able to browse and manage up to 2160 apps at once, which is much more than the current limit of 180 apps.

Better Mails:
Better mails means you can see all the messages from all your mails in a unified inbox which allows you to switch between inboxes more swiftly, organise messages by threads and also open attachments in third party apps.

iBooks:
iBooks have proved to be the best way to browse, buy and read books on a mobile device. Esay flips through the pages and you can browse over tens and thousands of them, out of which, most of them are free. This app even allows you to check out the reviews and read sample pages before you purchase them.

Developers:
With a whopping set of over 1500 novel APIs, the iPhone SDK4 endows developers a whole host of technology to play with the functionality of the iPod/iPhone’s touch applications. Developers can use these new APIs to make their apps more powerful, more feature rich, and more amazing than before.

Game Center:
The iPhone gaming platform looks to beat the current day’s Nintendo hands down as it looks to be a gaming powerhouse and Apple intends exceeding expectations with the addition of social gaming network to the same. How about having Live Xbox for on your iPad or iPhone?

iAD:
Apple’s iAd is an innovative mobile advertising platform though which media-rich apps bring about a blend of TV’s emotion together with the web’s interactivity.

Enterprise:
iPhone OS 4 offers more useful features for businesses. With enhancements to security, scalability, and compatibility, IT managers have even more reasons to deploy iPhone throughout their enterprises.

Well the above seven features happen to be JUST a start to the kind of features that the iPhone 4.0 OS sports. You cannot wait for its release? Can you? So cant we!