Apple on Tuesday released the third beta edition of iPhone OS 4 , only to temporarily rescind it due to an evident problem with the installation procedure for the accompany software developing kit .
The beta O adaptation are available only to registered developers via the officialiPhone Dev Center . The 9to5Mac Web site pick up on the developments and other newsworthiness land site and web log are digging up point . One of the key new elements in the 4.0 release is circumscribe multitasking , being able to head for the hills several apps or functions at once . Apple last month previewed OS 4.0 and surprised some with the software ’s business features .
9to5Mac writer Mark Gurmanspottedone new element in the beta 3 release : a new convenience - comparable user interface for the earphone ’s iPod functionality . The controller are unveil as button when you flick to the left the first dose of unresolved apps : a fast - launching button ; some music controls ; and an “ orientation course lock ” to keep the app ’s user port in portrait mode . One tap locks or unlocks . In the existing OS version , users twice - click the phone ’s home button to bring up a somewhat similar curing of controls .
Wired ’s Charlie Sorrel die into a more detailedanalysis . He notes the iPad offers a screenlock in the form of a dedicated hardware button . The iPhone lock on - screen button is exposed in the new multitasking dock that appears when you tap twice on the home button . This dock lets users switch between open applications .
“ The iPod push have also moved to this control strip , and we take for granted that they replace the dialogue panel which pop up when you threefold - pat the nursing home push button in the current iPhone OS , ” Sorrel drop a line . “ You also get a clitoris to get at the iPod app . ”
Sorrel also noted that each app in the multitasking strip has a “ quit ” button associated with it . “ This look a deal like a task manager , ” he writes . “ I ’d be constantly worrying that there were too many applications open , sucking my battery . These Modern buttons are accessed in the same way as the search screen on the current iPhone : Once you have accessed the dock , you swipe to the right wing to reveal this Modern gore . At least this part makes horse sense , although the once - simple iPhone OS look to be getting a lot more complicated . ”
The next version of the iPhonesmartphoneis look by many to be revealed at Apple ’s Worldwide Developers Conference in June in San Francisco .
