We’ve all known about the features of iOS4 (Who coined this, anyway? Doesn’t Cisco own the IOS name?

Limited multitasking ability may be great for some, but with my IM apps placing me in to “away” mode while I’m not in the application, I really don’t see the need for it.
Most satnav applications also have the ability to access the music library on the phone, so again, I’m not seeing the usefulness for me.
Don’t get me wrong, this has been one of the most whinged about “missing features” in the history of the iPhone, just for me personally, I don’t believe that I will find a use for it.

My double-push of the home button is well-suited to access my iPod controls – thankyou.

Sure, I have an iPhone 3GS, and the people with a 3G or earlier won’t share my point of view on this, but I can already exit an application, then enter a new one in a timely manner. Is the new “quick switching” going to do much for me? I don’t think so.
I digress, I seem to have started focusing on iOS4, not the iPhone itself.

New features:
- 5mega-pixel camera.
The camera upgrade is going to bring the iPhone one step closer to replacing the separate camera that you carry around in your other pocket. Five mega-pixels will be fairly decent, especially for anything that’s no more than a few meters away.

- Front facing camera.
Just what we all needed – easier access to myspace-angles for eleventy billion people.

- Video calling.
I had this a LONG time ago with “3″, when they first started out. The phone was big and bulky, but video calling (over the 3G network) worked.
After a few trials to see how it worked, I never used it again.
Now it’s making a comeback, but will only work over Wi-Fi? Seriously guys.

- HD video recording.
Again, another feature that I’m not going to use, but this time I can see how it would be useful to other people.n In my year with the iPhone 3GS, I’ve recorded one video, of my fish, just to see what video recording was like.

Wow.. This sounds like a whole hell of a lot of negativity so far.
I’m generally fairly enthused about Apple’s phone to end all phones, and reading above this point probably gives you the wrong idea about what I think of the new iPhone.

I’m keen to see this thing go to market, hell, I’m keen to buy one, but not for anything I’ve listed above.

I’m a heavy user of my 3GS, and the one thorn in my side is battery life.
Currently half my life is planned around the battery life of my iPhone. I have a charger beside my bed, a USB cable on my laptop for charging. I installed USB ports IN MY CAR, so that I could charge on the go.
Whenever I visit friends, shortly after the “Hi, how are you” is out of the way, the next question is “do you have an iPhone charger?”

The all glass front (and back) panels may hopefully help with the less-than-desirable reception these phones have, as will the quad-band.
Ok, so quad-band won’t actually help with reception, it will just mean greater 3G areas for those of us not on Telstra.

Apple’s A4 processor is also going to make this phone lightning quick. The step up to 1GHz is certainly going to please a lot of games developers.

LED flash. All I have to say on the matter is “It’s about bloody time”.

I’ve never been a fan of the volume button, or the mute switch on the 3GS, and without playing with the mute switch on the iPhone 4, I can’t really make comment there, but the volume buttons are just the way I’d like volume buttons to be. Separated.

What are your thoughts on Apple’s new iPhone 4?
If I happen to have some cash laying about, I’ll be buying the 32gb version. iPad can wait until the next hardware revision.