iOS 4 Update for iPhone 3GS
Yes… I am still awake at this very hour. What am I doing now?
Here I am sitting in my living room with the television playing Ghana VS Uruguay World Cup 2010 2nd Quater Final. Actually, I am not paying attention of the football match but I am very anxious waiting for the latest iPhone software update, iOS 4 to complete.
100++ improvements in iOS 4
I am quite outdated in terms of technological developments. I did checked before last month about iOS 4 update but no specific date. A few hours ago, while watching Brazil VS Netherlands,
I casually checked about the iOS 4 update and it’s here already since 27th June. I cannot download directly as I was using the internet connection of my handphone. I was at my girlfriend house. There’s no internet connection there.
So, Brazil lost (sad…) and I quickly went home and started to download the iOS 4 and twice the download was stopped because of my weak WIMAX connection. Damn frustated. The last download was around 50% already and now I have to start all over again! That’s why I am sitting here now, waiting for the download to finish!
Wait for my review about the iOS 4. I am so excited!
These are the lists of improvements in iOS 4:
- Multitasking by double clicking home button P3,T3
- Support for Apple Bluetooth keyboards
- Game Center social network
- iBooks with PDF support
- iAd mobile advertising network
- Portrait orientation lock
- Camera
- 5x digital zoom
- Tap to focus video
- Settings
- App-specific location settings
- Cellular data only setting
- Password with alphabet characters and numbers
- Simple Passcode Lock (4 digit number) option
- New Wallpapers
- New Wallpaper preview for home screen and lock screen
- Set up Internet Tethering
- New Gmail and Exchange icons in Mail, Contacts, Calendars account settings
- Support multiple Exchange accounts
- Custom Dictionary
- Compass
- Remove the button link to Maps (Added back with build 8A248c β2. Not sure whether this will become part of the final OS)
- Home Screen
- Ability to categorize apps into folders with default folder naming based on category name in App Store
- Up to 2,160 instead of 180 visible apps (12 apps per folder)
- Folder name supports up to 13 characters
- Custom backgrounds for Home screen and Lock Screen
- Dock redesigned to that of the iPad
- Rate on deleting app removed
- Default utilities folder which contains the clock, calculator, voice memos and compass apps
- Photos
- Categorized by Albums, Faces, Events and Places (under iPhoto in Mac OS X)
- Select multiple photos for mass deletion
- Support landscape mode
- Camera Roll
- Rotate photos
- Resize photos
- Categorization by All, Photos and Videos
- Support landscape mode
- App Store
- Ability to gift apps
- Maps
- Unified “locate me” icon
- Background location icon shown on status bar
- iPod
- Playlist creation on device
- Nested playlists
- Lyrics and Podcast info on Setting
- Volume control with Bluetooth headsets
- Art in Album View
- Notes
- Notes syncing with MobileMe, Gmail IMAP and Yahoo! Mail
- Accounts management appears if syncing is enabled
- Notes setting below Mail, Contacts, Calendars Settings if syncing is enabled
- Moved search box into title bar
- Calendar
- Birthday calendar
- CalDAV invitations
- Contacts
- Unified Info by linking contacts from different accounts
- CardDAV
- Streamlined “New Contact” Screen
- Spotlight
- Search with Web or Wikipedia
- Safari (Webkit version 532.9)
- Bing is now a search option, along with Google and Yahoo
- Recent Searches below search field
- Top Hit in Search
- Google Suggest appears below search field if Search Engine is set to Google
- Unified “Search” keyboard button when search field being used
- In-Page Video Playback
- Youtube
- Rotate & Zoom Videos in vertical and horizontal Position
- Nike+
- Upload workouts to Nike+
- Accessibility
- Larger fonts in Mail, SMS & alerts
- Message
- Include a Search bar
- Character count (Can be enabled or disabled in Settings -> Messages screen)
- Failed SMS Notification
- Option to toggle off the ability to send group messages
- Stocks
- Ability to quick view current market cap in place of stock’s price or % change
- Unified Inboxes
- Edit from Outbox
- Support for multiple Exchange accounts
- File & delete Mail search results
- Organize By Thread in Mail
- Quicklook attachments
- Open attachments by registered filetype with corresponding Apps from App Store
- Smart Links For Dates and Addresses
- Contact Pictures in Emails
- International
- Spell Check
- Added Cangjie and Wubihua Keyboards for Simplified and Traditional Chinese
- Text replacement between Simplified and Traditional Chinese
- Switch keyboard shortcut (holding the “earth” button on keyboard for a while)
- Added support for Danish voice control
- Hungarian Language added
- Other
- Persistent Wi-Fi
- Wake on Wireless
- Auto-join and Auto-login and IPv6 on individual Wi-Fi Networks setting
- Enhanced data protection
- Wireless app distribution
- Mobile device management
- SSL VPN support (both Juniper and Cisco)
- Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 support
- Improved Bluetooth driver for A2DP devices
Please let me know what you think about iOS 4 after you have upgraded it. TQ.
P/S: Actually, the iPhone is my girlfriend’s and it’s a special gift from me! She’s not so excited about updates. She’s more concerned about her sleep!
