Apr 11, 2010
So the world and millions of iPhone/iPod/iPad fans are eagerly waiting for the Apple's iPhone OS 4.0. On Thursday, the company will be presenting a sneak peak at the next iPhone OS as well as a rumored new iPhone model. Would that be iPhone 4G? We don't know that yet.
There is a desparation in Apple enthusiast to know what's coming into iPhone OS 4.0? Does Apple iPhone OS 4.0 have multitasking? Voice to text functions? Screen rotation lock? Unified Inbox and Home screen? Or may be the newer iPhone 4G models will have front facing cameras?
To get these answers, we all will have to wait till tomorrow. But here are some predictions and facts about what's coming into iPhone 4.0 OS
According to Tuaw.com, Support notes for iPad's Pages, Keynote, and Numbers apps all suggest that printing functionality may be coming to the device. Your iPhone or iPad would connect to a printer via Bluetooth or Wi-Fi.
Some other possibilities according to Ross Rubin
--Revamping the home screens. It is difficult to remember where icons are and keep them organized.
--Better support for subscription service billing such as Rhapsody.
--Real widgets that could run on a home or lock screen or via a gesture invoking something like Dashboard.
--Seamless voice/data handoff between 3G and WiFi.
--WiFi media sync
--Mobile hotspot
--Support for alternative soft keyboards, e.g., Swype
--iBooks reader
--"Check in" manager for apps such as Fourssquare, Yelp, etc.
--More gesture support
--A Palm Synergy-like architecture for integrating social media.
--Universal inbox
--WiFi Direct
--More HD video support (HD video capture, HDMI out)
--Access to music locker via Lala technology
--Flash support would certainly be a shocker given Apple's pro-HTML5 rhetoric and Adobe's recent touting of a wrapper to create AIR apps on the iPhone.