So last evening’s event was indeed about the iPhone OS 4.0 During the keynote, Steve Jobs has said that the amount of new features was too big to be mentioned in detail, and hence why the presentation was focused in seven main enhancements only. We’ll bring the other interesting new features on the new iPhone OS 4.0, together with a link to the entire streaming, which can be found here.

Here’s the list of more interesting features that weren’t mentioned during last evening’s event:

- Playlist Creation: from now on, like on the iPad, it’ll be possible to create playlists directly from the iPod app;
- Creating events in Mail: thanks to the automatic date recognition, it’s possible to create an event directly from Mail;
- Gift Applications: now also available on the Apple mobile devices:
- Braille support: a new feature that allows the user to connect a third-party device for Braille reading
- Customizable fonts: It’ll be possible to alter the size of fonts on the email, SMS and local and Push notices;
- Folders in Dock: the app collection folders can be dragged to the new Dock, making it similar to the Stacks from Snow Leopard;
- Folders: inside each Folder, users will be able to reorganize the icons as they wish
- Live suggestions in Safari: while making a research, Safari will now offer some suggestions like in the Desktop version
- Emails organized by Thread: Steve Jobs mentioned when talking about the unified inbox on Mail, in fact.

The rest can be seen on the streaming, directly from Apple’s Official Website.

Apple has sent a few invitations for an event that will be held tomorrow, April 8th, during which it’s likely that the new iPhone OS 4.0 will be presented. Amongst the many new “promised” features, there’s the multitasking support, which is perhaps one of the most desired ones. Other new features could be an iPad-styled springboard, for example, and a bigger integration between the devices.

Apple has already declared that the current iPads will receive a free update to the iPhone OS 4.0, while the 5.x versions will be available for purchase. It’s likely that the iPhone OS 4.0 will be launched officially together with the iPhone 4G, which makes it possible that tomorrow’s presentation will feature some new information about the next generation of iPhones.

We’ll have to wait and see!

According to an analysis from Morgan Stanley, the next iPhone model, the iPhone 4G will be cheaper than the previous models. The analysts claim that the possibility comes from the fact that Apple has now almost completely regained the money used in development and research to create the iPhone, and that now they can afford to use a more aggressive marketing campaign.

Also, a lower cost for the iPhone would bring to more units sold, which could bring to more songs downloaded from iTunes Store or applications from the Apple store. It could also influence customers to buy other Mac products. It would be a good move for the company.

Roughly one day after publishing two new ads, today Apple has published another one, called Family Travel. Again, not much else to say, the iPhone spots are pretty self-explanatory as they are.

So enjoy!

Apple has published two new ads, called “First Steps” and “On hold”. We don’t need to be saying much about it, as you’ll see them in the beginning and in the end of this post.

Enjoy!

The fourth generation of iPhones (iPhone 4G) are likely to be around in May. The rumors were brought forward by the French magazine Challenges. The magazine claims that the news came from a non-identified mobile operator. If that rumor comes true, it’d be the second time that a French phone company leaks information about Apple products.

Unfortunately the news don’t reveal anything else about the new iPhone, although it’s easy to think that the anticipated May launch, contrarily from the usual June/July launch that Apple follows since 2007, is a reply to Google’s new market strategy.

Stay tuned on our Iphone 4G news.

OmniVision Technologies will supply from 40 to 45 million 5 Megapixel sensors to Apple during 2010, probably going to equip the next generation of iPhones. The news was brought by DigiTimes, and those are CMOS (CIS) sensors. The true manufacturing will start in Taiwan on the first trimester of 2010.

If history should repeat itself, with OmniVision that receives a big order (last year, 3.2 Megapixel sensors), we should see a more powerful iPhone around June. We’ll have to wait and see.

Apple has released two new ads for the iPhone. As usual, both of them show a selection of applications available for the smartphone. The first one is called Gift, and as the name probably hints to, it shows an application dedicated to choosing gifts that are the most adapted to each contact, and other interesting applications as well.

The second one is called Song, and it shows some classic applications such as Facebook, Shazam or The Sims 3. The spots can be seen on Apple’s official TV ads page. Enjoy!

Rumors are rumors and we always treat them as such, but should this one come to pass, it should be an interesting possibility for the future. According to 9to5ac, Einar Rosenberg from Nearfield Communications has declared that Apple would be working in testing the RFID technology on the next generation of iPhones. Those were the exact words:

“A highly reliable source has informed me that Apple has built some prototypes of the next gen iPhone with an RFID reader built in and they have seen it in action. So its not full NFC but its a start for real service discovery and I’m told that the reaction was very positive that we can expect this in the next gen iPhone.”

In a nutshell, then, the RFID implementation should allow the devices to notice the distance and start pre-determined actions automatically, such as synchronization (through WiFi perhaps) or the payment authorization by putting the credit card in contact with the phone display. Of course, in order for that to work, the card must have an integrated RFID chip, but it’s becoming more and more common now, especially in the USA.

We’ll have to wait and see.

From Apple’s official support forum, many users have complained that when trying to synchronize their iPhone to the newest Windows 7, they get the error message 0xE8000065. The problem seems to be between Windows 7 and the Intel P55 chipset that works as an USB controller: the iPhone is recognized, but when the user tries a synchronization with the computer, it shows the error.

The problem seems to exist for both 32 and 64-bit versions, and there’s no real solution for that right now. A Microsoft spokesperson has announced that “Microsoft has not seen this particular question posed in the Microsoft Answers for Windows 7 community forum, nor in any of our call centers. We reviewed the issue raised on the Apple Discussion Board and are currently investigating. If we determine this to be a problem specific to Windows 7, we will post an update on the Microsoft Answers site.”