“You might have spotted some of these [features] in our thorough hands-on videos, but most of nuggets below are new discoveries,” Golijan and Rothman report.
• Cellular Data On/Off
• SMS Character Count
• SMS Search
• Home Screen Backgrounds
• Camera Zoom
• Web and Wikipedia Search
• Borderless Document View
• Streamlined “New Contact” Screen
• Events, Faces and Places in the Photo Menu
• Lyrics/Podcast Data Toggle
• Spellcheck!
• Resize Photos While Sending
• New Playlists
• Art in Album View
• App-Specific Location Services
• Game Center
• Email Threading
• Long Alpha-Numeric Passcodes
• Unified Inbox
• App Folders (with Alerts)
You can view all your emails in one spot or segregate them to separate inboxes.
Full gallery here.
As usual, it takes weeks to get to the bottom of all Apples new announcements or products…and then weeks to digest and realize them.
Hello…Is there anyone listening ?
Innovate or die- no free lunches anymore.
That’s what I like about Apple, they promise 5 or 10 features, and bring 20 or 30 of them. Microsoft offers 2 or 3 and just bring 1 half baked.
@Troy: LOL!! So true.
Can we print thru WiFi in OS 4?? Anybody knows about it? This is very important to me…
@ Troy
Priceless!!!!!
Too true, Troy!
As for Wifi printing, there are already third party apps that do that.
I have the developer sdk thing so I have had access to the betas over the past year and a half. This update is AMAZING. Everything I’ve ever wanted on my iPhone has all come tome life in 4.0
@ Troy
and when Apple does bring in new features, they are usually outstanding. Ex. Cut and paste on iPhone OS is brilliant. I’ve no doubt multi-tasking will be just as polished.
Hm, think I had that on my first Ericsson mobile some 15 years ago…
I was hoping to be able to use MobileMe aliases in the email app.
Still got ugly ass marker felt font in notes. [sigh]
If they don’t fix that soon I’ll buy a Pre.
(Filling in for perpetual complainers)
Can’t wait for 4!
I’m amazed at how powerful each major update has been. This one takes the cake though.
I wonder how easy it will be for people to use if their first iPhone is running 4.0? I guess some features won’t seem new, and some will go unnoticed until they accidentally do something and have a “wow” moment.
Or more like a “dammit, how did I do that?” moment.
Asterix,
That was rumored but doesn’t seem to have come true. I’m sure someone would have found that by now and reported on it.
why it took 3 OS iterations for SMS character count to come in, I have no idea
Alphanumeric passcodes!! How did I miss that one?
Steve’s really cleaning house with this update.
Asterix:
You can print now, just buy an app..Search “Print” in itunes store. There are a number of different implementations.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/printcentral-for-all-your/id363371015?mt=8
Anyone know of a way to rate photos via iPhone or iPad?
@ Ryan,
Yes, I do.
@Truth
@Cubert
@zmarc
I will check out those printer apps – I had one recently, called Print Magic, and it worked but couldn’t print documents with formatting etc. Had to copy and paste Text, which it would print unformatted, and with all the German “Umlaute” ö ä ü as cryptic signs.
I would love to have the ability to print from the iPad, since I plan to get one for my wife, and she’d need to print docs from Pages, Mail and sometimes attached files.
However, thank you for the information…
Yes, but will we finally be able to change an event’s Calendar once it’s created? My default calendar is Home, but I also enter events for Work and sometimes I forget to set the Calendar to “Work” and then I can’t change it (I have to delete the event and recreate it).
Let’s hope this has been fixed…
@ Big Al,
Care to share that lovely information with me?
Of cuz you”ll be able to print
Anyone know if we’ll finally be getting frikkin’ PLAYLIST FOLDERS with OS 4?
If we aren’t, I may have to wrap my head with duct tape to prevent a messy explosion. There’s no excuse for Apple treating its iPhone/touch users like this for the last four years. What the hell is the holdup?
Ironically, when apple comes out with new features they are features that should have been there for a long time. Multitasking has been around for quite sometime with jailbroken iPhones, as is tethering among other things.
Anyone remember no cut and paste? Please…. Apple isnt the end all be all fan boys.