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Apple iPhone 0S 4.0 coming this summer Bernard Cole Cupertino, Ca. – At a meeting with developers here, Apple CEO Steve Jobs said that the next generation iPhone 4.0 OS, with its long anticipated multitasking capability will in general use on all iPhones this summer and on iPads in early Fall. Apple released a beta version of iPhone OS 4.0 and its associated SDK; the beta software and SDK are available at Apple's developer support site for registered members of the company’s iPhone Developer Program. Apple expects to release the OS update for iPhones this summer, followed by general availability for the iPad in the fall.The OS includes a multitasking feature that will allow users to switch among a variety of applictions and return to their place in the original one with out losing any data and at the same point at which they left. It will be available for users with the company’s iPhone 3GS and the third-generation iterations of the iPod Touch. The earlier iPhone 3G and second-generation iPad Touch will be able to run the new OS, but without the OS’ multitasking capabilities. Regardless of platform, the OS update will also allow users to organize their mobile applications into folders, the names of which will default to the applications’ App Store category name; users are free to rename these folders and to manage them on their connected computers using iTunes 9.2. This will allow users to display more than 2,000 applications on their iPhones, which currently has a practical limit of 180 displayed applications. It also has a unified mailbox, enabling users to track e-mail conversation threads or sort e-mails by their source account. The company is adding support for Microsoft’s Exchange Server 2010 with the update, and will allow the use of multiple Exchange accounts. Additional features in this version of the iPhone OS useful to business users are new security features that allow the use of longer and more complex device passcodes; the new iPhone OS will use that passcode as an encryption key for mail messages and attachments that are stored on a device. It will also allow wireless distribution of in-house and proprietary applications. Also a device management system is to be introduced that will allow the use of third-party servers to configure and query iPhones over a wireless connection, or if desired, to lock or wipe a managed device that’s strayed from its intended user. To learn more, go to www.apple.com.
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