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In effect, it’s a balance: a decision Apple has made between battery capacity and functionality users are used to from rival platforms. Barring rapid increases in battery technology, we can’t see them opening up “true” multitasking – where apps are left to run free and untended in the background – any time soon. For some that will be a deal breaker and push them toward webOS, Android or other platforms; for many, it will be sufficiently advanced that – with a little developer ingenuity to make best use of the APIs and other systems on offer – they may not notice the difference.
You’ll certainly notice the difference with unified messaging in the iOS4 Mail app, and it kicks the iPhone 4 back into play with the best of email-centric smartphones. Hard to believe that it’s taken Apple so long to add a combined inbox, but now, as well as viewing each account separately, you can see one view with all new messages. There’s also conversation support: a small number appears to the right of a message in the inbox if there are subsequent replies to it, and tapping to view pulls out all of those replies into a single, easier to follow string.With the App Store now containing in excess of 200,000 titles, homescreen folders are ironically more useful than they sound. Drag any app icon onto another and a folder is automatically created, named by default according to the app’s category, but open to user customization too. Go heavy on the organization and you can quickly slim down 10+ full homescreen panes to just a couple of screens of folders. Curiously, though, Apple has limited each folder to just twelve apps, and there’s no support for nested folders: putting in a sub-folder to separate out, say, card games from your gaming folder.It’s not the only place we’d like to see improvement, either. iOS4′s app switching system is slick – the side-scrolling app manager bar is straightforward to use, and holding down on an icon lets you close it directly – but that only goes to highlight the frustrating pop-up notifications. With more and more apps running in the background and wanting to alert users to new updates, messages and status changes, it’s increasingly likely that whatever you’re doing will be punctuated at least once or twice with an on-screen dialog box. Unlike on rival platforms like Android or webOS, there’s no way to “ignore” the alert but still have it visible so as to remind you later on that something has changed: instead you have to deal with it there and then, or dismiss it altogether.
We’d also like to see an iPhone 4 version of iPhoto, or at least some basic image editing tools on the handset. Movie has shown that the 1GHz CPU is capable of HD video editing, so being unable to crop or tweak shots in the iPhone 4′s gallery seems particularly shortsighted. It’s worth noting that the smartphone is reliant on iPhoto on the desktop to handle facial recognition and galleries: you’ll need to set them up there and then sync to get them across onto the iPhone 4. Finally, we wish Apple would broaden its social networking integration, so that as well as emailing or MMS’ing images from the gallery we could upload them to Flickr, Facebook or other online galleries. That links in with a general shortage of social network awareness in iOS4 as standard; yes, there are apps which will tick those boxes, but they lack the wholehearted system integration that we’ve seen on rival platforms.
You’ll certainly notice the difference with unified messaging in the iOS4 Mail app, and it kicks the iPhone 4 back into play with the best of email-centric smartphones. Hard to believe that it’s taken Apple so long to add a combined inbox, but now, as well as viewing each account separately, you can see one view with all new messages. There’s also conversation support: a small number appears to the right of a message in the inbox if there are subsequent replies to it, and tapping to view pulls out all of those replies into a single, easier to follow string.With the App Store now containing in excess of 200,000 titles, homescreen folders are ironically more useful than they sound. Drag any app icon onto another and a folder is automatically created, named by default according to the app’s category, but open to user customization too. Go heavy on the organization and you can quickly slim down 10+ full homescreen panes to just a couple of screens of folders. Curiously, though, Apple has limited each folder to just twelve apps, and there’s no support for nested folders: putting in a sub-folder to separate out, say, card games from your gaming folder.It’s not the only place we’d like to see improvement, either. iOS4′s app switching system is slick – the side-scrolling app manager bar is straightforward to use, and holding down on an icon lets you close it directly – but that only goes to highlight the frustrating pop-up notifications. With more and more apps running in the background and wanting to alert users to new updates, messages and status changes, it’s increasingly likely that whatever you’re doing will be punctuated at least once or twice with an on-screen dialog box. Unlike on rival platforms like Android or webOS, there’s no way to “ignore” the alert but still have it visible so as to remind you later on that something has changed: instead you have to deal with it there and then, or dismiss it altogether.
We’d also like to see an iPhone 4 version of iPhoto, or at least some basic image editing tools on the handset. Movie has shown that the 1GHz CPU is capable of HD video editing, so being unable to crop or tweak shots in the iPhone 4′s gallery seems particularly shortsighted. It’s worth noting that the smartphone is reliant on iPhoto on the desktop to handle facial recognition and galleries: you’ll need to set them up there and then sync to get them across onto the iPhone 4. Finally, we wish Apple would broaden its social networking integration, so that as well as emailing or MMS’ing images from the gallery we could upload them to Flickr, Facebook or other online galleries. That links in with a general shortage of social network awareness in iOS4 as standard; yes, there are apps which will tick those boxes, but they lack the wholehearted system integration that we’ve seen on rival platforms.
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