Hello folks and welcome to another edition of Triple T. We had another big announcement from Apple last week regarding the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad so lets get right down to it.
iPhone OS 4.0
Thursday Apple showed off the iPhone 4.0 software for the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. The new OS will allow multitasking at last so now you can listen to Pandora while checking your Facebook.
Also in the update is Folders which will allow you to group your apps into an icon on a screen which when selected will open up the apps within that folder to select from. This will save me a lot of finger swiping and I am very happy to see it as well.
If you have multiple email accounts it will also offer a unified inbox meaning you will no longer have to switch between inboxes to read your email although you can still do that if you desire to. Also it will now organize email messages by thread as well. For the enterprise folks, it will also allow multiple Exchange accounts too.
Another added edition is they are bring iBooks to the iPhone and iPod touch. It will allow you to read a book across an iPhone, iPod touch or iPad and will keep track of where you left off even if you were reading it on another device. Similar to Amazon’s WhisperSync on its Kindle device and apps.
Rate on Delete
Also as part of the iPhone 4.0, the option to rate an app when deleting it is being removed. This is a great thing because if you keep an app you really aren’t given an option to rate it but if you delete one chances are you are not a fan of the app which can skew results in the negative.
Griffin Goodies for the iPad
I am a big fan of Griffin Technologies! They are always thinking of cool stuff for tech products and when it comes to the iPad, they did not disappoint. They are offering their own dock as opposed to the one you can buy from Apple, as well as a PowerBlock and a car charger if you are traveling around with the iPad. They also have a nice professional looking case for the iPad as well and a few other types of cases and sleeves.
Apple vs Adobe
One of the controversial aspects of the iPhone OS 4.0 SDK is the prohibition of using Adobe Flash in apps. To me I agree with Apple, Flash tends to be buggy and processor intensive where as HTML5 is a lot better on video content on mobile devices.
Well that is going to do it for this weeks Triple T. Next week I hope to have some app reviews on both the iPhone and iPod touch and the iPad (even though I don’t have an iPad...yet! See you next week!
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