iPhone OS 4.0 to have Exposé-like multitasking, global mailbox, homescreen contacts?

By on Mar 31, 2010 at 2:27 PM
Software March 31, 2010

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Next-gen floodgates = open. Citing people familiar with pre-release builds, AppleInsider published a report today which seems to confirm many of the most popular rumors about iPhone OS 4.0. The lack of third-party multitasking will finally be addressed with the aid of a UI feature similar to Exposé. In OS X, Exposé shows users not only what applications are open but displays thumbnail images of contents of each individual application window so navigation is simple. But as the iPhone is a mobile phone with a screen that is believed to be in the neighbourhood of 3.7″, it would be quite difficult to distinguish one application from another if more than a few are running at the same time. To remedy this, Apple has elected to use nothing but the application icons. Just how Apple plans for users to activate the feature is unclear, but double-clicking the home button seems the most likely option. Also coming is a global inbox allowing users view email from multiple accounts from a single inbox as well as the ability to add contacts to the homescreen. Just when iPhone OS 4.0 will be announced is anyone’s guess, but let’s hope it at least gets its own event like OS 3.0. We’re itchin’ for some beta software.

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  • Steven iJobs, CeO

    Attention all SHEEP:

    This is your Lord master speaking. Do NOT read about Android! Do not read about how their inferior software keyboard can dictate your voice into any application. Do not believe anything that is written about Android “multi” tasking. I am the innovator of all things technological. Along with my board member, Algore, who invented the internet so that YOU may worship ME, I will take over the world and you, as my flock, will be granted redemption in my Applonian Utopia!

  • MJ

    The iphone os is just a dumbed down android os in a dress…visually amazing but software is traassshh

  • http://gene gene shadd

    for all you stupid people that are not up on the gadget news it will also have front facing camera . a 5.0 back camera and increased processor .it will also have built In radio. the reason apple does not release things like multitasking because they want it to work. if you used blackberry which I used for years and droid which I tried for a month. the phone freezes up all the time and slows down. which sucks blackberry users know it as the battery pull. give me a break I control my lights and ac and radio through my iPhone don’t tell me it’s not a break through.

    Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone) at: Woodbridge North America

  • Hendrix

    You’re arguing over friggin’ phones…wth has the world come to?

  • MSF

    My phone is bigger than yours. Size does matter!

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