The most powerful iphone OS yet to date is available now for download since yesterday. Yes! The iOS 4 is finally here.
Pre requisites before installing
- Your iphone must be the 3G version or a 3GS (iphone 3G wont support multi-tasking, 3GS does)
- Your iTunes must be version 9.2
My gut feeling said that I must download and implement it on my device ASAP, even without reading the feedback through forums etc.
And so I updated my iTunes and after a restart, I connected my iPhone 3GS and checked for updates, it detected the iOS 4 so I clicked on continue. There it went!
The process for the whole update took approximately an hour. I ended up sleeping while waiting for it to finish.
After a whole day of tinkering and test driving the new OS, here's my TOP 5 REASONS why you should upgrade your 3GS phone to the new iOS 4:
1. Visual effects for the FOLDERS feature is breath-taking. Folders are essentially beautiful in their functions. It's a drag-and-drop mechanism that you can easily customize your docked icons. How to do it? Tap and hold an icon then drag-and hold it on top of another icon until a box appears and that's the only time that you have to release the hold. Presto, the two icons are now inside the box where it will prompt you for name or label. Do the same thing for all the icons you want to put inside that box.
2. Camera! Gives you now the option to zoom in and out, tap on the screen where you want to focus and you can zoom the camera
3. Photos, gives you albums and places, good thing to note here about places is the capability of the phone to record where the pictures were taken, giving ala-google map pointed flags on each location. It sorts out the pictures based on location where it was taken. Cool huh!
4. iBooks, hell yeah! If you're a bookworm, booklover. This is it for you. I just tried recently downloading some free books over the ibookstore, pretty neat! I cant say enough. It's flawless.
5. Multi-tasking feature.., iphone gurus eversince the beta version are saying that this is the best that iOS4 can offer. I'd say, 75% of it is true based on my experience. The main question here is how to launch the "multi-task bar"? Here's how - Double click on the home button and it will give you a taskbar on the bottom, where you can scroll horizontally while in portrait mode and vertically while in landscape. Tap and hold an icon in the task bar and it will give a minus sign on the icon, which lets you close the running app (pretty simple huh!, it's like the concept of deleting an icon from the main menu).
The main dish here about multi tasking is the ability to run multiple app on the background without sacrificing your battery life (oh yeah! This is tested by me).
Say, im downloading a book from the iBook, then I opened another app like twitter, I really don’t have to wait for the iBook to finish downloading. While posting a tweet, the book is in the process of DL, when I get back to the iBook again, the DL is done. Main benefit of this would be on games, you dont have to close a game app just to jump or switch to another app. Sweet huh?
When you launch the multi-task bar, and scroll to the left, it gives you the option of LOCK portrait mode, I found this very helpful, whenever im in bed reading a book, the phone can be locked to portrait mode which disables the automatic landscape mode whenever I switch positions. Haha! This is really nice. Along with it is ipod's icon navigations.
On the downside, I missed the SB (sidebar) Settings which can be availed thru jailbreaking and installing Cydia. Where a swoosh of a finger can launch the sidebar. I was thinkin that Apple has implemented the multi-taskbar launch via swoosh of a finger, instead they used the "double clicking the Home Button". That is just one of my negativity on this change of platform. (we'll see when the jailbreak for iOS 4 is released)
Recap, I know it has more to offer, there were no regrets in executing this new OS. I'm beginning to get more and more of a "connection" thing with this phone. It's absolutely fantastic!
PS: if you are unsure if your phone is originally UNLOCKED, please get some more info before you upgrade to iOS 4.
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