Apple iPhone OS to get Multitasking

So far, details on what the new 4.0 operating system would look like are still pretty scarce. But rumors have been going around stating that the new OS would be enabling some form of multitasking on the touch screen handset.

While most of us have already given up on Apple enabling multitasking support for the iPhone (it is like begging Steve Jobs to start supporting Adobe Flash), it seems like the engineers at Apple have finally found a way to convince the higher powers that multitasking is one feature that the smart phone badly needs.

Much like the Expose’s user interface, a list of running applications can be brought up on a menu by tapping the home button twice. It’s a simple function, and one that many non-iPhone smart phone users take for granted with other device. But for the iPhone community, the ability to multitask is pretty much like cut and pasting two years ago –a hopeless dream.

With the Apple iPhone 4G smart phone expected to be running the iPhone OS 4.0 right off the bat, the addition of multitasking to the may impressive hardware features of the 4G device makes us all giddy with excitement that Apple might just announce or even launch the new handset this coming June.

Summing up the rumors, the new device is expected to come with a large touch screen display, possibly with a 4.3 AMOLED screen. It is also rumored to have a removable battery, a touch sensitive casing and even a new high speed processor.

Of course, it is all rumors and speculations for now. But with devices such as the Motorola Shadow, the HTC Scorpio and other super high end handsets expected to come out later this year, the newest iPhone will have to go all out to stay on top for another two years in the industry.

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