I just got done watching the WWDC keynote where Steve Jobs officially announced iOS 4 and the new iPhone. I’ve got to say I’m pretty impressed. I know most of us have seen some of the leaked information on Gizmodo a while ago, but I don’t believe it really compares to what we saw at the world wide developer conference. Jobs really only had time to go over a small portion of the new features but he hit a lot of really nice ones. The new iOS operating system for the iPhone is a real leap compared to the old versions.

The ability to multitask and create folders together I thought was one of the bigger highlights of the Operating system. Primarily because we’ve been aching for multitask support since the iPhone was originally released. Jobs claims that multitasking wasn’t a good idea until it was handled right and also claims that apple is going to do it the best. From what I’ve seen so far it looks good but until I actually have one in my hand I wont know for sure.

Facetime is another feature which was released and is quite impressive. Video calling now being a reality is absolutely stellar release. Unfortunately Facetime only works from iPhone to iPhone and despite the fact that the charts say that the iPhone still shares an impressive portion of the market. Unless your friends have iPhones too, it will be an unused feature. Although Facetime with clients would be really good. Similar to skype but it would make interfacing with customers a lot easier.

An internal Gyroscope was shown as well which is going to wonders for gaming. I can’t really go into detail too much if you haven’t seen the demo that Jobs performed on stage. That can be viewed at the apple site here

Some of the other features that were mentioned of course was the new model and its retina display of 960 x 640 resolution and a 5 megapixel camera, new apple advertising to make developers more money and just a whole slew of improvements. I suggest you watch the keynote yourself or you can just take a hop to Gizmodo and get the full lowdown.

I know I’ll be upgrading, how about you guys? Thoughts?

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