Is the iPhone OS due for an update next week? The latest rumours say so, with Apple poised to unveil iPhone OS 4.0 alongside its much-hyped Tablet. What’s more, the first details of what to expect have leaked online. Read on, get the inside info, but digest it all with a huge pinch of salt. Nothing’s confirmed until Steve Jobs sings his siren song next week.
According to Boy Genius Report, the Apple Tablet will be known simply as the iTablet, and not iSlate as had been rumoured. What’s more, it’ll debut alongside iPhone OS 4.0, delivering multi-touch gestures across the entire phone, not just within images or apps.
The report also claims there’ll be “a few new ways” of running apps in the background, finally enabling multitasking on the iPhone. As usual, there’ll be interface nips and tucks, with “many graphical and UI changes to make navigating the OS easier and more efficient.”
So far, so standard issue and with nothing we hadn’t already been expecting deep down. But there’s still plenty of scope for surprises on January 27th. Boy Genius claims the update, due to hit iPhone 3G and 3GS handsets, will “put them ahead in the smartphone market because it will make them more like full-fledged computers.”
We’ve heard mobile manufacturers call their devices computers before. Nokia tried it a few years back, but with the iPhone OS built on the same innards as Mac OS X, and likely to form the basis of the new iTablet, we wouldn’t be surprised if Jobs and Co finally pull it off. Question is, what exactly will Apple bring to the party?
Truth, or trivia? Make believe, or near the mark? We’ll have to wait until next Wednesday to find out for sure whether this tittle-tattle’s for real. Until then, we’ll keep bringing you gossip and let you make your own mind up.
TBC | £TBC | Apple (via BoyGeniusReport)
