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Any changes to Calendar Alerts? I'm hoping for an option to make them persistent until cleared by the user (rather than just one tone and a pop up and that's it).

I can't afford to miss an appointment just because I wasn't near the phone when the alert went off!
 
While no music is playing, if you tap the home button on the lock screen to bring up the iPod controls, it shows the album art of whatever would play if you used the iPod buttons.

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it sucks how you can only develop on a mac thus only being able to "legaly" get the 4.0 beta on a mac hah :p

cant wait for these new features, can anyone check to see if you can customize sms tones? if i had that i would not need to jailbreak.
 
Just going back and forth between the apps that do background at the moment is pretty fast and easy to get used to. The only thing that's slower is pausing music when not in the iPod. Switching to the iPod is pretty quick but waiting for the app to zoom onto screen when you really need to shut music off quickly can be annoying.
 
Kahnyl said:
Just going back and forth between the apps that do background at the moment is pretty fast and easy to get used to. The only thing that's slower is pausing music when not in the iPod. Switching to the iPod is pretty quick but waiting for the app to zoom onto screen when you really need to shut music off quickly can be annoying.
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triple click would be nice, for ipod
 
Some questions for folks in the know...

1. Any improvement to the "Location" field in Calendar. Can I link it to a
contact, for instance?

2. Does the App store still, incredibly, dump you out of the app whenever you buy something or load updates? (Why you'd want to forcibly usher customers out of your store is beyond me)

3. Does it sync Outlook tasks yet?

4. Any better way to toggle speakerphone other than that awkward multi-key sequence which hides the keypad? As it is now, retrieving regular (i.e., non-visual) voice mail is a tedious process if you want to use the speaker.

5. Does the "Photos" app show your photo locations on a map?
 
blancoBronco said:
I only see that the calculator got changed. Am I missing the rest?
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Sulwyn said:
I think they're thinking the icons got tweaked because of the background. The background is making the shades of the icons look slightly different. Otherwise I see no differences.
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No he is right! WOW, VERY GOOD attention to detail! :eek: Look VERY closely, every app is tweaked a little bit, and it is NOT just the background wallpaper that makes them appear that way!

For example:
-Calendar, the black line separating the red top bar and the white.
-YouTube, the little speaker grill in the bottom center is much more pronounced.
-Weather, the suns rays are sharper.
-Notes, the page tear towards the top bar is different.
-Clock, no more white outline around the icon, and the seconds hand is more pronounced.
-Calculator, obviously different, but it is funny that they change that icon with every update pretty much haha.
-Mail, the fold shadows in the letter are not near as dark.

The others are sharper and slightly tweaked as well but it is harder to see.

Detail people, detail! :D

Oh and even though it is on the iPad, I'll give you an exclusive that I haven't seen anywhere that I found while playing with one today for the first time! :D In iBooks, if you pull down on the shelf quite a bit, there is a secret Apple logo hidden up under the top menu bar! :cool:
 

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codymac said:
Here's another tidbit for the make calendar events from dates in email messages. I noticed this last night while working...

Apparently, there's some logic built in that picks up plain English phrases for time, as noted in the image below. The sender did nothing special and no one on the distro with pre-4.0 iPhone software got a calendar event link.

Snakes in a @#$%!! datacenter is an inside joke for us... after someone in the company actually started that rumor. Having the busiest Symms on the planet, per EMC, isn't nearly as funny though.
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noticed this feature in the mac OSX for the first time the other day, kidna took me off guard. .. highlighted the words "tomorrow morning" within iChat and wanted me to make a calander event lol
 
Noticed an odd change. Now when using bluetooth headset there is a volume control on the iPhone but it does not entirely control the volume. It will turn it down some but not all the way like the normal control. Hope this feature stays and becomes full volume control. I would love to be able to use my Sony HBH-IS800 with my iPhone.
 
because now in mail you can open attachments with 3rd party apps.
this will let you see whats in the attachment without opening the app.
quick look.
 
Small White Car said:
I appologize for the rough edit, but...

You're telling me you find this:

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...more useful than this?

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Why? Using actual folder icons seems far less useful and a lot more confusing. I have to imagine your're just about the only person who would want that sort of folder-view.
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That would also be as ugly as sin.
Aesthetics count, man.
 
Could anyone confirm if pressing an app icon on the homescreen when that app is already being multitasked, opens the tasked app, or opens the app from fresh(Apologies if this has been confirmed already)?
 
Opening from the switcher and home screen does the same thing. ie. brings an already running app into view.

PatrickRS said:
5. Does the "Photos" app show your photo locations on a map?
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That's the intent of Places but it just crashes for me when I hit the Places tab.
 
BergerFan said:
Could anyone confirm if pressing an app icon on the homescreen when that app is already being multitasked, opens the tasked app, or opens the app from fresh(Apologies if this has been confirmed already)?
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Until developers utilise the new API's re-opening apps, just literally 'opens' them.

At the moment, the multitask bar is 'recently used apps' rather than true multitasking.

You'll notice all of Apple's native apps remember where you were the last time you had it open (e.g. settings, within albums in photos, mail, etc...) so it appears as though it stayed open.

Once 3rd party apps start utilising this, we'll be fully mutlitasking!
 
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As well, what does “iPod Out” mean? Originally, during the conference, I thought they were replacing the iPod app with Videos and Music (like the iPod Touch/iPad). But, after playing around with the beta, I see that they still use the iPod app and are not separated.
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I saw a few people ask about this iPod out thing. I believe they are emulating a normal iPod connection so that external devices can access the iPod API.

For example I have a Chumby and it can't access the iPod at all. With a normal iPod you can connect it and pull the playlist or music list and play them through the Chumby or set a song to be your alarm etc.

I'm guessing some older iPod intergrated cars or docks have similar issues without this new function.
 
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