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iOS 4 – Close an app (and prevent battery drain)

I really like iOS4 - It gives me a lot features I use every single day (Every hour to be quite honest). But there's one major downside to iOS 4: It's batterylife. The iPhone's battery life never really was very good - Therefore I bought a Morphie Juice Pack Air last year, but with iOS4 on the iPhone 3GS the battery drain is significantly more than iPhone OS 3.1.2. Eventhough Johan already posted a nice post with a few tips how to keep your battery drain at a low level, I thought it would be … [Read more...]

iPhone OS 4.0 – Paul’s First Thoughts

Today Apple Announced the new iteration of it's iPhone OS. iPhone OS 4.0 gets over 100 new features. 7 of them were demoed by Steve Jobs, Scott Forstall and Phil Schiller on stage in Cupertino. Besides that the new iPhone OS 4.0 delivers over 1500 new APIs for developers. Developers now have the possibility to enhance their application with functions like access calendar, In-app SMS, Photo Library Access, Quick Look, Spell Check and many more new features. I'll go through the 7 features which … [Read more...]