100+ Cool new features of iPhone 4
June 9th, 2010 by Vinay Gowda 
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iPhone 4
Well the must awaited gadget will be out in market soon! A 9.3mm thick, 5x digital zoom and 4G supporting widget iPhone 4 is ready to rule world again. On 7th June, 2010 Steve Jobs has unveiled the operating system for its new iPhone 4 at the World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC).
The new Operating system(OS) called as IOS4 from Apple is having many new cool features. This OS will be available to the public for the iPhone (4, 3GS, 3G with limited) and iPod Touch (3rd gen, 2nd gen with limited) on June 21, for free.
OK! Now get ready to explore more about iPhone 4. Here we are going to put in front of you the 100 cool new feature the IOS4 brings in for iPhone 4.
General
- Multi-Touch Gestures: The iPhone OS frameworks include APIs to alert you to many standard gestures, or you can hand-code your own gesture awareness.
- Multitasking by double clicking home button
- Support for Apple Bluetooth keyboards
- Game Center social network
- iBooks with PDF support: The best way to browse, buy, and read books on a mobile device. Easily flip through the pages of a book you’ve downloaded from the iBookstore while listening to your music collection. Browse tens of thousands of books — many of them free — by title, author, or genre. You can even check out reviews and read sample pages before you buy.
- iAd mobile advertising network
- Portrait orientation lock
- Background audio: Allows your app to play audio continuously. So customers can listen to your app while they surf the web, play games, and more.
- Voice over IP
- Background location
- Share Data Among apps
- Push notifications
- Cut, Copy & Paste: Double tap for Cut/Copy/Paste menu all over iOS (sms to email to notes…)
- 5mp Camera
- 5x digital zoom
- Tap to focus video
- Rotate photos
- Resize photos
- Categorization by All, Photos and Videos
- Support landscape mode
- Categorized by Albums, Faces, Events and Places
- Select multiple photos for mass deletion
- Support landscape mode
- 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
Ability to categorize apps into folders with default folder naming based on category name in App Store- Custom backgrounds for Home screen and Lock Screen
- Organize apps into folders with drag-and-drop simplicity
- Up to 2,160 instead of 180 visible apps (12 apps per folder)
- Default utilities folder which contains the clock, calculator, voice memos and compass apps
- Folder name supports up to 13 characters
- Dock redesigned to that of the iPad
- Rate on deleting app removed
- Unified “locate me” icon
- Background location icon shown on status bar
- Ability to gift apps
- Playlist creation on device
- Nested playlists
- Lyrics and Podcast info on Setting
- Art in Album View
- Volume control with Bluetooth headsets
- 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
- Birthday calendar
- CalDAV invitations
- Updated icon
- Voice Memos
- Unified Info by linking contacts from different accounts
- CardDAV
- Streamlined “New Contact” Screen
- Include a Search bar for searching messages
- Character count while typing a messages
- Failed SMS Notification
- Option to toggle off the ability to send group messages
- Larger fonts in Mail, SMS & alerts
- Search with Web or Wikipedia
- ichat: Video Calling
- HTTP Live Streaming: Built-in support for HTTP live streaming makes it easy for applications to use standard web servers to stream high-quality audio and video content over the air for playback on iPhone and iPod touch. HTTP live streaming is designed for mobility and can dynamically adjust playback quality to match the available speed of Wi-Fi or cellular networks.
- Included Bing Search with Google Search as default Search site.
- FaceTime: People have been dreaming about video calling for decades. iPhone 4 makes it a reality. With the tap of a button, you can wave hello to your kids, share a smile from across the globe, or watch your best friend laugh at your stories — iPhone 4 to iPhone 4 over Wi-Fi. No other phone makes staying in touch this much fun.
- 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
- HTML5 Client-Side Storage in Safari: The advanced Safari browser included in iPhone OS supports the latest HTML5 offline data storage features. The offline storage means a web app can store session data locally in a cache on the iPhone or iPod touch device, using either a simple key/value data API, or a more advanced SQL interface. The data is persistent among Safari launches, meaning apps start up faster, are less dependent upon the network, and perform better than ever before.
- Rotate & Zoom Videos in vertical and horizontal Position with Youtube
- Upload workouts to Nike+: iPhone includes built-in Nike + iPod support. Just slip the Nike + iPod Sensor (available separately) into your Nike+ shoe and start your workout.
- Ability to quick view current market cap in place of stock’s price or % change
- Unified Inboxes
- Edit from Outbox
- Contact Pictures in Emails
- organize messages by threads, and even open attachments in third-party apps
- Support for multiple Exchange accounts
- Exchange Server 2010
- File & delete Mail search results
- Smart Links For Dates and Addresses
- Open attachments by registered filetype with corresponding Apps from App Store
- Quicklook attachments
- Organize By Thread in Mail
- Hungarian Language added
- Added Cangjie and Wubihua Keyboards for Simplified and Traditional Chinese
- Spell Check
- Added support for Danish voice control
- Text replacement between Simplified and Traditional Chinese
- Switch keyboard shortcut (holding the “earth” button on keyboard for a while)
- Persistent Wi-Fi
- Improved Bluetooth driver for A2DP devices
- Wake on Wireless
- Auto-join and Auto-login and IPv6 on individual Wi-Fi Networks setting
- SSL VPN support
- Mobile device management
- Enhanced data protection
- Wireless app distribution
Camera
Settings
Home Screen
Maps
i-Store
Music
Notes, Calendar and Calculator
Contacts and Messages
On Top
Web
Emails
Language Tool
Connectivity
How was that? iPhone 4 going to have a blast with these many cool features! June 21st the day all iPhone lovers are waiting for. But unfortunately the gadget is available only in US as of now 
Hope soon it will be available all over the world!
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Twitter: pablolarah
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Good article.
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Vinay Gowda Reply:
June 9th, 2010 at 10:14 pm
Hope you liked the features
Thanks for the comment Pablo:)
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The iPhone 4 has got stunning looks. Well packed with features. A great gadget to have. Nice post. Clearly written.
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Vinay Gowda Reply:
June 9th, 2010 at 10:15 pm
iPhone 4 is going to rock among smartphones Mukundan
Thanks for the comment dude 
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Twitter: webguide4u
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Nice compilation of features at one place
thanks for the share
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Vinay Gowda Reply:
June 9th, 2010 at 10:18 pm
hope you liked the features Vivek
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Twitter: icebluebanana
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I have been using a Blackberry, but would like to switch to an iPhone soon. I have been waiting for the technology to mature & it seems to be stable now. There is still an issue in the States with the provider (ATT) being the only one and everyone I know with an iPhone complains about problems with their service.
Great article! Thanks!
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Vinay Gowda Reply:
June 9th, 2010 at 10:20 pm
this version has got lot of features and its all new in iPhone 4 Mark. As you saw there are lot of cool new features. Hope you gonna grab it soon
Thanks for sharing your view Mark 
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Twitter: Neerajkumar_
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Iphone 4 seems to be an awesome machine. But will remain a dream for me
With all the features, the cost also has hiked. 
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Vinay Gowda Reply:
June 9th, 2010 at 10:25 pm
Neeraj the cost is affordable
basic model costs at $199. So you can have one and fulfill your dream 
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jasdeep singh
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June 29th, 2010 at 5:40 am
$199 price is with 3 year contract plans only. Without contract and unlocked iPhone 4 will easily burn a hole in your pocket worth $700-$800. The price is still unclear..
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100+ Cool new features of iPhone 4…
Well the must awaited gadget will be out in market soon! A 9.3mm thick, 5x digital zoom and 4G supporting widget iPhone 4 is ready to rule world again…
Twitter: shabnamsultan
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Really amazing features
a must have gadget.
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Vinay Gowda Reply:
June 9th, 2010 at 10:30 pm
Wait till sept to have one Shabnam
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Twitter: bloggingjunkie
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Vinay, you are awesome in compiling the lists. Compiling 100plus list is not an easy task though IPhone has all these functions. By the way are you using the IPhone? Cuz someone who is not using can’t compile such detailed list.
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Vinay Gowda Reply:
June 9th, 2010 at 10:42 pm
I’m not having iPhone Imran
, Just thought about the iPhone 4 and did a good research with Sunil via Google and came up with this post 
Thanks for commenting
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Twitter: Pliggs
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Excellent post, sounds like a fantastic iPhone.
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Vinay Gowda Reply:
June 12th, 2010 at 11:08 pm
ya
its one of the best smartphone of the decade 
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Well described review. Thanks for sharing.
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Vinay Gowda Reply:
June 12th, 2010 at 11:09 pm
Thanks Bimal
Hope you liked the features 
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Twitter: gadgetcage
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That is really a great list mate. Im aware of only 29 features. Great exploration
u simply rocked
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Vinay Gowda Reply:
June 13th, 2010 at 6:53 pm
if we have missed any feature please let us know Siddu
anyways thanks for the comment 
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Well done with this article – you’ve done well tl list a full 100 features. The iPhone 4 seems to be a big leap forward over the previous generations, although I don’t think Apple had much choice due to the advances with the Android operating system and new handsets from companies like HTC, it’s just a shame that they are so expensive. I wouldn’t expect networks to give them away for free but the lifetime costs for an iPhone 4 are pretty high. It’s also difficult for those that took the 3GS on a two-year contract at launch to upgrade.
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Vinay Gowda Reply:
June 23rd, 2010 at 8:02 am
I seriously accept your point here Chris. The cost of iPhone for lifetime is too high! But it has got very good features.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts Chris
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nice, looking forward to the iphone4..n ios upgrade. mostly tired of the same txt alerts, so looking forward in the change in that. great job wit the blog=)
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