iOS4: what the new iPhone 4 is like on the inside

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It’s got an i infront of its name and it lets you multitask. 4 years after the first iPhone, you can check the news and your email – at the same time on the iPhone’s new Operating System, the iOS4.

Other key features includes folders which let you flick between open apps and in a slightly surprising move, they’ve also included Bing as an option in their search engines.

Otherwise the big software updates are all about the apps – iMovie for video editing (with Hipstamatic like themes), iBooks for reading books, commenting on them and sharing them with your iPad.

iAds is the other interesting new software feature – something for developers to let them monetise their apps. A sort of Google Ad-Sense that builds a much deeper relationship between the ad and the user.

FaceTime makes use of the front-facing camera to allow Skype-like calls, that are kinda cute, but seem to freeze up a bit.

Anna Leach