iPhone OS 4.0 Official Release Date, Features and iPhone Multitasking

April 8th, 2010 | Posted by i.nconspicuo.us in iPhone Tips & Tricks - (5 Comments)


It’s official… iPhone users will finally be granted the long awaited feature of multitasking. This has got to be the single most requested item and the single item that keeps most BlackBerry users from switching to the “all powerful” iPhone. The thing that sucks about the OS 4.0 update is that 3G users will not be fully supported – OS 4.0 will install, but features such as multitasking will not work. There was no mention of the 1st generation iPhone (2G) which may not be supported at all – still waiting on word from Apple.

Here are some of the other features of the iPhone firmware 4.0 update:

  • Multitasking / Background Apps
  • iAd
  • iBooks
  • Unified Inbox
  • New Drag & Drop UI

Will the summer release date of the iPhone OS 4.0 make you wait to jailbreak your iPhone if you haven’t jailbroken it yet? Which new iPhone OS 4.0 features are you most excited about.

And finally, the thing you all want to know about is the official release date of the iPhone 4.0 OS… I don’t have the official date, but I’ve always been a good predictor, I’m going Tuesday, June 8th as the official date. Just a guess, Apple will have to prove me wrong.

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iPhone 2.0.1 Firmware Update to Fix Bugs and Glitches Found in 2.0 Update

July 28th, 2008 | Posted by i.nconspicuo.us in iPhone Tips & Tricks - (3 Comments)


If Apple’s most recent release of the 2.0 iPhone software update doesn’t make you want to jailbreak your iPhone, I don’t know what will. Ever since installing the 2.0 update, with the exception of my initial excitement about installing new applications, I have been frustrated by the slow user interface experience that the 2.0 update has caused.

I hope that Apple will figure it out and release a 2.0.1, or maybe even a 2.1 update. But you know Apple is always slow to release the next major revision of their firmware, so I’m guessing that we’re likely to see a 2.0.1 update before we see a 2.1 update. Either way, I need to see something soon, otherwise I’m going to have to go back to my Nokia 8801.

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iPhone WordPress App – Apps I’d Like to See in the Apple AppStore – WordPress Apps

July 10th, 2008 | Posted by i.nconspicuo.us in iPhone Tips & Tricks | Wordpress - (0 Comments)


With the popularity of WordPress constantly growing, and the same holding true for the Apple iPhone, I’d love to see some WordPress developers and iPhone application developers put together a WordPress admin application for the iPhone that could be downloaded from the AppStore. Whether the application was free or paid, I think it’d get a great response from both the WordPress and iPhone community.

There are iPhone enabled admin themes for WordPress, but they just don’t offer the same usability that one might get from an actual iPhone application. Any takers? I might be willing to partially subsidize the development… very partially.

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iPhone 2.0 Firmware Update – Download a Day Early, iPhone 2.0 Software Download

July 10th, 2008 | Posted by i.nconspicuo.us in iPhone Tips & Tricks - (0 Comments)


MacRumors forums found the iPhone 2.0 software update and posted it for all to download and install. Download it here, and install it today.

Here’s a great install guide if you choose not to wait for the official release.

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iPhone 2.0 Firmware Release Date – iPhone Firmware Update Cost & Release Date

June 22nd, 2008 | Posted by i.nconspicuo.us in iPhone Tips & Tricks - (0 Comments)


So it doesn’t look like the iPhone firmware release date is going to hit in June as was previously anticipated. I’m betting that we’ll see the release of the firmware on the same date that the new iPhone is released: Friday, July 11th. All the Apple website says is “Coming Soon”, still no specific date for the launch of the 2.0 firmware update, so I’m banking on July 11th. I’d love to see it prior to that, but I’m not betting that its going to happen.

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iPhone 2.0 Firmware Release Date, 3G iPhone 2nd Generation Release Date – UPDATED

June 10th, 2008 | Posted by i.nconspicuo.us in iPhone Tips & Tricks - (1 Comments)

2nd Generation iPhone – 3G iPhone

It’s official! Apple has announced the 2nd generation iPhone and plans on starting distribution as early as June in Spain. Unfortunately, those of us in the U.S. are going to have to wait until July 11th to get our hands on one. The major feature enhancements for the 3G iPhone are:

  • 3G capability (which equates to faster network connectivity over EDGE)
  • GPS functionality built in

If you are happy with the current speed an functionality of your 1st generation iPhone, I’d recommend keeping it, though the new $199 price point for the 8GB 3G iPhone is going to be hard for many of us techies to resist.

iPhone 2.0 Firmware Release Date

Still an unofficial guesstimate, the iPhone 2.0 firmware update will supposedly be released on June 11, 2008. We all knew that it was referred to as the “June Update” for quite some time, however, the exact date is still up for debate. If anyone has any information, please do share!

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3G iPhone Release Date – 3G iPhone Announced at WWDC

June 9th, 2008 | Posted by i.nconspicuo.us in iPhone Tips & Tricks - (0 Comments)


Well, as expected, Steve Jobs just announced the new and much improved 3G iPhone at WWDC (I have no idea what that stands for by the way). After reading all about it, the 3G iPhone will primarily have all of the same features and functionality as the first generation iPhone, but the 3G model will of course have much faster network coverage and will have built in GPS support. All of the other cool features and functionality that were discussed at WWDC will most likely become part of the Generation 1 iPhone with the release of the iPhone 2.0 June update.

My favorite part about the 3G iPhone… it’s price tag. Only $199. That’s amazing, considering that when the iPhone was first released, it was $599. Now they’re selling a better phone at a fraction of the cost.

I don’t know the exact 3G iPhone release date, but when it is released, I’m probably going to go get one!

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iPhone 2.0 Update Feature Request – Video Recording – Record and Upload Videos on iPhone

June 2nd, 2008 | Posted by i.nconspicuo.us in iPhone Tips & Tricks - (1 Comments)


I’ll be posting about some of the most common iPhone feature requests that we see here as comments on this blog. I might have a tendency to post about features that I’d like to see with more depth and detail than features that would be less usable and more “flashy” than anything else.

One feature that is requested by many users is iPhone video recording capability. As a software developer, I think that this should definitely be an upcoming feature in the June Release of the iPhone 2.0 Firmware Update. The reason I say that, is because the iPhone already has all of the necessary hardware to enable video recording – it has a camera, and it has a microphone. The reason that I think it’d be a very useful feature, is because the iPhone is already integraded with YouTube. It’d be great for both YouTube and iPhone owners if users could simply record and upload video directly from their iPhone. Just think of the usefulness of that! Just a for instance – let’s say you go to a birthday party of your relative and your cousin wasn’t able to make it, you could record video of everyone singing happy birthday and upload it to YouTube and immediately send a link from your iPhone to your cousin, and they could in turn, check out the video… IMMEDIATELY!!!

In my opinion, I definitely think that iPhone video recording will be something that we see in the June Update for the iPhone 2.0 Firmware.

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iPhone Copy & Paste Functionality – Will the 2.0 Update Offer Copy & Paste

June 2nd, 2008 | Posted by i.nconspicuo.us in iPhone Tips & Tricks - (2 Comments)

I’ve speculated on many of the iPhone updates in terms of the features and functionality that will be offered in each of the updates, iPhone 2.0 June Update, the iPhone 1.1.5+ Update, and others, but the one common feature that users continue to ask for is Copy & Paste functionality for the iPhone. Here’s my question to all of the readers out there: How do you propose that Copy & Paste functionality would work on the iPhone?

We’ve come up with a couple options, but knowing that Apple always likes to find the best and most easy to use option, give us your input on how you think iPhone Copy & Paste functionality would work best.

We’ve had these 2 options suggested:

  1. Use 2 fingers to drag and highlight across text – this brings the problem of sizing the page/text, because the pinch method is already used for sizing.
  2. Use 1 finger to drag and highlight across text – this brings the problem of scrolling the page/text, because the one finger drag is already used for scrolling.

I think the best (and only option) for Copy & Paste functionality on the iPhone is to have it work in the following way (Dear Apple, if you like this method, please send a check):

  1. Press and hold a single finger inside the text, at either the start or end of the text that you wish to highlight.
  2. After say 1-3 seconds of holding, a highlight option becomes available, at which time you will be able to drag your finger to select text.
  3. Upon lifting your finger, there can be 2 options:
    1. Highlighted text is automatically copied to the clipboard.
    2. A submenu pops up giving the option to Cut or Copy the text.

Let me know what you think of these ideas, and if you have any additional ideas of your own.

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