iPhone 4.0 Beta 3 Brings New Features: File Sharing, Widgets & More
Since the release of iPhone 4(.0) Beta 3, there have been some newly released tweaks and features for the iPhone. Let’s start off shall we?
- Multitasking
Your probably asking “how is this new?”. Well Multitasking the feature itself isn’t new but the way to close the apps has gotten much more simpler. Apple is very smart when it comes to their Betas, they always have about 5 before the GM (Gold Master) version comes out.
When Beta 1 came out, I hopped on that bandwagon and downloaded it. What I had first seen when I tried out Multitasking was the way to close them, it was pretty annoying you had to do it one app at a time, and at times I probably had about 10 open at a time with only 5 actually being “tasked” in the dock, remember devs have to code their apps to multitask.
No longer do you have to press, hold and click close for each application. Now you simply press and hold the icon of one of the many applications you’re currently running, and you’ll be given the option to close whatever ones you wish in rapid succession.
Think of deleting application on your iPhone.
2. File Sharing
Well I won’t lie this kind of had me suprised too. Apple is now allowing you to share files on your iPhone. It’s like a drag and drop type service and done in iTunes. It doesn’t work as of yet. But I’m sure by 4.0 this feature will be up and running. How many of you are excited for this? Now when I do screenshots on my phone for articles it won’t be such of a hassle. Thanks Apple.
3. Media Player Widgets
Well isn’t this feature lovely. I don’t know if you guys forgot but multitasking has taken the place of the double click button, this goes for iPod owners too.
Well now when you go too select another application simply swipe to the left and you got a widget for playing music. It comes with the standard play/pause, next, backward. Along with an icon in case you might actually wanna go and dive in for a specific song.
Now we did get the best of both worlds. I know that people were in fact questioning about how they were going to get their lovely pop-up control feature back.
Once again, Thank you Apple.
4. Orientation Lock
Looks like there’s no need for NoRotation tweak in Cydia anymore. Apple has now added a orientation lock button that you can tap to prevent it from rotating. To enable orientation lock, you simply have to fire up the multitasking interface, swipe to the left and click the Portrait Lock icon. Nice, no?
Let me know either through Twitter, on my personal twitter, or through the sites twitter on what you think about these new features.
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I’m not sure if it’s different now then before but I did see this file sharing feature in Beta 1 today. It was only showing up for mail also just like your screenshot. I’m glad they fixed the multi app deletion in the backgrounding. That was annoying to do one at a time.