iOS 4 update: iPhone 3G, 3GS owners get ready for the big update

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Alex White

19 June, 2010

Starting with the multitasking, it won't support iPhone and iPhone 3G due to hardware inefficiency. Multitasking was sorely missed in the premium phone which is undoubtedly one of the best smartphone on the planet.

iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS and iPod touch owners get ready for the big update to your phones which will make them the most powerful on the planet. Apple will be releasing an update for the iPhone users (barring the original iPhone owners) which will bring more than 100 new features to the device on June 21.

However, some of the well known features are: multitasking, unified mailbox, folders for apps, iAd platform, game centre etc. This takes Apple ahead of its competitors on the smartphone arena.

Let us see what do these updated features mean:

Starting with the multitasking, it won’t support iPhone and iPhone 3G due to hardware inefficiency. Multitasking was sorely missed in the premium phone which is undoubtedly one of the best smartphone on the planet. Now the iPhone owners can have more than one application running simultaneously. Replying to an SMS while playing a game is possible now! (yes that needs an exclamation mark for it isn’t available to iPhone owners!) Now the users can easily switch between applications without exiting them. Apple had made sure that the new update doesn’t drain the battery with improved software and technology as other phones do.

Another feature is the unified mailbox which means now one can have all the mail clients in one inbox. One can integrate all the inboxes like Gmail, Live mail, Yahoo etc. in one inbox and doesn’t have to keep on going in and out of one inbox to another. This will give an ease to the person who have work, home and other separate accounts and receive mails regularly.

Folders will give iPhone owners a reason to rejoice, now one can have as many as 2160 applications on one’s device that too without the headache of swiping endlessly to the custom home-screens. The user can now have folders for apps which can store application in one folder and show the folder on the screen. The folders can be named, renamed, deleted with ease.

Other features that are very handy, found in the SDK, are support of dictionary features. One can add words to dictionary and make the iPhone learn words, a great feature given the fact that we generally use shorter words without vowels while typing SMSes. Indian users write their native languages in roman and iPhone’s suggestions make it difficult to type fast. It will also now underline the wrong words in red dotted line as in general text editing tools and Macs.

The iOS 4.0 (previously iPhone OS) update software will be available to download in the iTunes and the moment the iPhone is connected to iTunes(you must have the latest iTunes installed on your PC or MAC) it will prompt the user to update the software, say yes and let it download and install it on your phone. Please don’t disconnect in between as the update may start all over again.