What's the big deal with the new operating system Apple has developed for the iPhone?
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Claudine Beaumont, Technology Editor for The Telegraph
highlights severalios4 features. Read more on The Telegraph's site.
:: Folders – Sick of having your applications spread across multiple pages on your iPhone? Never fear, because iOS4 allows you to create folders for your apps. Each folder can store up to 12 apps, allowing you to collate your travel apps, productivity apps, games and social networking tools into single folders. The iPhone will automatically give each folder a name, based on the kind of apps it contains, but you can also give the folder your own label if you want. You can create folders through the iPhone emulator in iTunes, or on the device itself, by pressing and holding an app icon until it wobbles, and then dragging and dropping it over the icon of another app you'd like to place in the same folder.
:: Multitasking – iOS4 brings multitasking to
iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS and the third-generation iPod touch. It means that you can have multiple apps running simultaneously, such as listening to Spotify while writing an email. At the moment, very few app developers have upgraded their apps to support multitasking, but expect to install a rash of app updates in the coming weeks as software writers rush to support the new capabilities. Apple's official apps, such as Safari and Mail, are already multitasking compatible, so you can get the merest hint of what that new function will eventually offer by playing around with those programs. Double-tap the Home button to bring up a Dock containing recently opened apps – swipe to the right to scroll through the carousel, choose the app you want to switch to, and it will flip in to view.
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