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iPhone OS 4.0 Preview Event Scheduled for This Thursday

Safari Uploads?

I went to the Apple Store today to check on the iPad. Found out that I can't upload documents to my federal court using iPad's Safari. Dealbreaker. Would be nice if I could have that functionality. Otherwise, I'll likely be a candidate for an HP Slate.
 
It better....

If the new OS doesn't allow my iphone to become a mind reading device, a teleport hub or turn into a cheese grater, then I'm leaving Apple forever!... Come on, some of you here are insane, :apple: will always be improving there systems as does any company, but remember it will never do everything... Can't wait for the update!
 
JFreak said:
We've seen operating systems multitasking for way less RAM pretty effectively. Welcome 1998 when 128MB was luxury, 64MB was common and seeing 32MB or even 16MB was not unheard of. They all did multitasking and 64k colors easily. Fast forward +10 years and today nobody remembers the past 😛
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Yep. 256mb is not that bad - the Playstation 3 has "only" 256mb of ram, and it can do some amazing things with it.
 
Here's my guess related to multitasking:

The A4 chip is a system-on-a-chip.

Apple will not allow regular multitasking because it'll ruin current iphone apps performance and ruin battery life.

I think that the A4 chip contains a second chip + memory controller which is very slow and doesn't require much power.

My guess is that every program that needs to run in the background will move to the secondary controller and run off of there, leaving the main CPU+GPU+RAM to the frontal process.

The background processes will run rather slow, but who cares, right? it's a background process. It will preserve battery life since the slow chip won't suck too much power. It will keep performance as is today because the main chip is still used like before.

Just a guess and very far-fetched. But who knows 🙂.
 
Sweeeeet we've all been waiting for what seems like ages for the new mobile OS. Just in time to raise even more interest in the iPad and I can't wait to have something new to play with on my iPhone. 😀
 
I hope the new OS will now offer remote playback of your iTunes music and movies. That would be awesome for me.
 
Expose

I remember a couple rumours back, that pressing the home button twice would bring up an expose-like feature, showing the open, running programs. It'd be even cooler if you could give the iPhone a shake, while pressing the home button, to activate expose, just my 2 cents 😀
 
odedia said:
Here's my guess related to multitasking:

The A4 chip is a system-on-a-chip.

Apple will not allow regular multitasking because it'll ruin current iphone apps performance and ruin battery life.

I think that the A4 chip contains a second chip + memory controller which is very slow and doesn't require much power.

My guess is that every program that needs to run in the background will move to the secondary controller and run off of there, leaving the main CPU+GPU+RAM to the frontal process.

The background processes will run rather slow, but who cares, right? it's a background process. It will preserve battery life since the slow chip won't suck too much power. It will keep performance as is today because the main chip is still used like before.

Just a guess and very far-fetched. But who knows 🙂.
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actually the A4 has a graphics core , memory controller and processor on a single chip.

its very fast.

i think multitasking wouldn't hurt speed as much as it would hurt battery life.
 
DipDog3 said:
Really hope Apple is including multi-tasking in this release.

The competition (Android & Windows) has surpassed Apple already. The current iPhone OS feels very old and outdated.
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Android maybe, but the current Windows release is Win Mo 6.5 which is a joke. Windows Phone 7 looks OK, but there are no phones with this OS yet.
 
QuiteSure said:
I went to the Apple Store today to check on the iPad. Found out that I can't upload documents to my federal court using iPad's Safari. Dealbreaker. Would be nice if I could have that functionality. Otherwise, I'll likely be a candidate for an HP Slate.
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LOL. You expected it to work with ECF?
 
odedia said:
Here's my guess related to multitasking:

The A4 chip is a system-on-a-chip.

Apple will not allow regular multitasking because it'll ruin current iphone apps performance and ruin battery life.

I think that the A4 chip contains a second chip + memory controller which is very slow and doesn't require much power.

My guess is that every program that needs to run in the background will move to the secondary controller and run off of there, leaving the main CPU+GPU+RAM to the frontal process.

The background processes will run rather slow, but who cares, right? it's a background process. It will preserve battery life since the slow chip won't suck too much power. It will keep performance as is today because the main chip is still used like before.

Just a guess and very far-fetched. But who knows 🙂.
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It certainly does not. iFixIt already looked inside the package. A CPU die and 2 DRAM dies.
 
Which apps really need to run in the background?

Which apps really need to run in the background? Internet radio/Pandora types for sure. But what else? Most of the other apps I use remain static when I exit to do some other task. My gut feeling is that Apple will provide developers with the tools to allow their apps to run in the background, but that Apple will be the ones to decide which apps actually receive approval. I wouldn't be surprised if some developers will have to justify their reasons for allowing the app to run in the background.
 
rjlawrencejr said:
Which apps really need to run in the background? Internet radio/Pandora types for sure. But what else? Most of the other apps I use remain static when I exit to do some other task. My gut feeling is that Apple will provide developers with the tools to allow their apps to run in the background, but that Apple will be the ones to decide which apps actually receive approval. I wouldn't be surprised if some developers will have to justify their reasons for allowing the app to run in the background.
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I personally am anticipating it for chatting. I hate running an IM app and being restricted to only that app. Would be nice to flick back and forth when someone messages me while I browse the web or something.
 
rjlawrencejr said:
Which apps really need to run in the background? Internet radio/Pandora types for sure. But what else? Most of the other apps I use remain static when I exit to do some other task. My gut feeling is that Apple will provide developers with the tools to allow their apps to run in the background, but that Apple will be the ones to decide which apps actually receive approval. I wouldn't be surprised if some developers will have to justify their reasons for allowing the app to run in the background.
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Anything that relies on location services, including turn-by-turn navigation, "check in"-type social networking, things that pop up alerts or perform actions based on location, etc.

Anything that relies on the camera, light sensors, change in network connectivity, or accelerometer to trigger an action from the background.

etc.
 
rjlawrencejr said:
Which apps really need to run in the background? Internet radio/Pandora types for sure. But what else? Most of the other apps I use remain static when I exit to do some other task. My gut feeling is that Apple will provide developers with the tools to allow their apps to run in the background, but that Apple will be the ones to decide which apps actually receive approval. I wouldn't be surprised if some developers will have to justify their reasons for allowing the app to run in the background.
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A pedometer. Have you used one?
 
I love being an Apple fanboy. It makes the end of every spring semester of university so much more exciting than papers and finals. 😀
 
WPB2 said:
In what world do you live, where you can say "windows XP works just fine with 256MB of RAM"? I can tell you that XP does not perform well with even 512MB ram in it. XP uses 512MB of ram just to keep Lotus Notes open on my machine at work. I installed an extra 2GB just to run a couple programs at the same time (excel, lotus notes, word, and Adobe acrobat.)
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Bearing in mind the average computer back in 2001 had maybe 256mb RAM if you were lucky, and ran Office XP quite happily, yes Win XP CAN run well on 256MB of ram, as can all versions of OS X prior to Tiger!
 
Apple has been known to allow their oldest Macs to still be compatible with the latest OS -- which keeps people thrilled.

BUT with iphone, OS 4 with multitasking is going to require some heavy processing.

The original iPhone (EDGE) will not be able to do this.
There is a huge speed difference between iPhone 3G and 3GS that I am not sure 3G could do multitasking either.

So, is OS 4.0 going to be something relevant to 3GS and iPhone 4 only?
Or maybe only for new hardware only-- 3G/3GS is maxed out?
 
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