With version 4 of the iPhone OS set to be announced tomorrow, I have some thoughts on what is likely to be announced. In no particular order, here’s a list of things that I expect to see coming with version 4:
1. Multitasking.
Whether it’s full on multitasking or a limited set of background services available to developers, I suspect we’ll see multitasking of some sort make it into this release.
2. Revised Lock Screen
One of the chief complaints about the iPhone has been the lack of any useful information on the lock screen. There has been some great mockups done in the past, and Apple has filed patents regarding the possibilities of a new home screen, so I suspect this will make it into 4.0. I suspect that there will be hooks fore third party developers to access it too.
3. Unified Inbox in Mail
Another long standing complaint against the iPhone is the lack of a single unified inbox for your mail. I hope this will be included. The ability to mark messages as read without reading them would be nice too.
4. Application Specific URIs
The ability to have Applications overwrite the default behaviour for specific types of links. For example, open a nytimes link in the nytimes app and so on. (ok, that’s probably a bad example, but you get my meaning)
5. Improved File Sharing
File sharing has been kind of shoehorned into the iPad and as many reviewers have pointed out, is a bit clumsy. Hopefully they will build on it in OS4 and make it easier to share documents among multiple apps.
That’s just a few thoughts I had on the subject. They kind of sprung this announcement on everyone and caught most people off guard, but we’ll know for definite tomorrow anyway. If you have your own thoughts or suggestions please feel free to add them in the comments.
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