I’m not one to get too excited for release dates, other than the Beatles Rockband. But after I watched Apple’s Keynote speech, I felt like a little girl waiting for my birthday. Of course the majority of the buzz is generated by multitasking. What? Yes. Just double click and switch between your apps. So go ahead and listen to Pandora, check your email, and play Pocket God.
Unfortunately for Apple’s once beloved middle child, the 3G, multitasking will not be an option. But to my fellow jail-breaking brothers and sisters, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel: the iPhone Dev team has already told us that the multitasking feature will be “switched on” for us.
You can also gift apps, so go ahead pay the .99 so your friend can play along with you, since they don’t want to link a credit card to their iTunes account.
And finally, non jail-broken iPhones can have a home screen, I don’t know why there was such a wait on that. Cameras will now have a 5X zoom, and for those who like to text like an adult there’s spellcheck.
Other than that, the iPhone 4 was somewhat disappointing to me. First its going to use a micro SIM, which hasn’t really been used before. Probably to stop jail-breaking and then using another carriers SIM card. The video chat is nice – it finally feels like we’re in the future. Unfortunately, at least this point, it only seems that it will work with other iPhone 4 users. Can anybody else say Skype?
So nonetheless, I’m crazy excited when OS 4 comes out, then I just have to wait for the Dev team to hurry up.
Tags: iphone 4
Great write up. The iPhone is truly awesome and I don’t like being without it. This time last year I had jumped in a pool with my iPhone and it was dead. I had to wait 9 days before I was able to purchasea new one. The phone I had was a cheap go phone. I really love all the games that can be downloaded to the iPhone. The best part about the iPhone to me is the ability to check emails on the fly. Thanks for the information.
No question about it: The iPhone quickly becomes an indispensable tool when it comes to finding something to do. I actually had to get a newspaper subscription for our office at one point because people had no idea what to do for 10 minutes while they were without their iPhone as we fixed it.