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

1. 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.
2. Multitasking by double clicking home button
3. Support for Apple Bluetooth keyboards
4. Game Center social network
   
5. 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.
6. iAd mobile advertising network
7. Portrait orientation lock
8. 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.
9. Voice over IP
10. Background location
11. Share Data Among apps
12. Push notifications
13. Cut, Copy & Paste: Double tap for Cut/Copy/Paste menu all over iOS (sms to email to notes…)

Camera

1. 5mp Camera
   
2. 5x digital zoom
3. Tap to focus video
4. Rotate photos
5. Resize photos
6. Categorization by All, Photos and Videos
7. Support landscape mode
8. Categorized by Albums, Faces, Events and Places
9. Select multiple photos for mass deletion
10. Support landscape mode

Settings

1. App-specific location settings
2. Cellular data only setting
3. Password with alphabet characters and numbers
4. Simple Passcode Lock (4 digit number) option
5. New Wallpapers
6. New Wallpaper preview for home screen and lock screen
7. Set up Internet Tethering
8. New Gmail and Exchange icons in Mail, Contacts, Calendars account settings
9. Support multiple Exchange accounts
10. Custom Dictionary

Home Screen

1. Ability to categorize apps into folders with default folder naming based on category name in App Store
2. Custom backgrounds for Home screen and Lock Screen
3. Organize apps into folders with drag-and-drop simplicity
4. Up to 2,160 instead of 180 visible apps (12 apps per folder)
5. Default utilities folder which contains the clock, calculator, voice memos and compass apps
6. Folder name supports up to 13 characters
7. Dock redesigned to that of the iPad
8. Rate on deleting app removed

Maps

1. Unified “locate me” icon
2. Background location icon shown on status bar

i-Store

1. Ability to gift apps

Music

1. Playlist creation on device
2. Nested playlists
3. Lyrics and Podcast info on Setting
4. Art in Album View
5. Volume control with Bluetooth headsets

Notes, Calendar and Calculator

1. Notes syncing with MobileMe, Gmail IMAP and Yahoo! Mail
2. Accounts management appears if syncing is enabled
3. Notes setting below Mail, Contacts, Calendars Settings if syncing is enabled
4. Birthday calendar
5. CalDAV invitations
6. Updated icon
7. Voice Memos

Contacts and Messages

1. Unified Info by linking contacts from different accounts
2. CardDAV
3. Streamlined “New Contact” Screen
4. Include a Search bar for searching messages
5. Character count while typing a messages
6. Failed SMS Notification
7. Option to toggle off the ability to send group messages
8. Larger fonts in Mail, SMS & alerts

On Top

1. Search with Web or Wikipedia
2. ichat: Video Calling
3. 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.
4. Included Bing Search with Google Search as default Search site.
5. 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.

Web

1. Recent Searches below search field
2. Top Hit in Search
3. Google Suggest appears below search field if Search Engine is set to Google
   
4. Unified “Search” keyboard button when search field being used
5. In-Page Video Playback
6. 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.
7. Rotate & Zoom Videos in vertical and horizontal Position with Youtube
8. 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.
9. Ability to quick view current market cap in place of stock’s price or % change

Emails

1. Unified Inboxes
   
2. Edit from Outbox
3. Contact Pictures in Emails
4. organize messages by threads, and even open attachments in third-party apps
5. Support for multiple Exchange accounts
6. Exchange Server 2010
7. File & delete Mail search results
8. Smart Links For Dates and Addresses
9. Open attachments by registered filetype with corresponding Apps from App Store
10. Quicklook attachments
11. Organize By Thread in Mail

Language Tool

1. Hungarian Language added
2. Added Cangjie and Wubihua Keyboards for Simplified and Traditional Chinese
3. Spell Check
4. Added support for Danish voice control
5. Text replacement between Simplified and Traditional Chinese
6. Switch keyboard shortcut (holding the “earth” button on keyboard for a while)

Connectivity

1. Persistent Wi-Fi
2. Improved Bluetooth driver for A2DP devices
3. Wake on Wireless
4. Auto-join and Auto-login and IPv6 on individual Wi-Fi Networks setting
5. SSL VPN support
6. Mobile device management
7. Enhanced data protection
8. Wireless app distribution

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!