iPhone OS 4.0 Beta 3 Reveals New Features

Apple seeded beta 3 of the iPhone OS 4.0 to the developers recently. Apple iPhone OS 4.0 beta 1 was reported to be unstable, and beta 2 which was released on April 21 brought bugs like disabled camera and file uploading issues.

iPhone OS 4.0 Beta 3 Features:

File Sharing

Apple is finally going to allow you to transfer files to and from your iPhone straight from your computer. How it works? You plug your iPhone into iTunes, head on over to the Apps page and scroll down. From there you’ll be able to drag files to and from your iPhone and your computer. We have not been able to get the feature to work as of yet, but it seems a lock that support will be enabled for more than the Mail app. That is if this feature makes it past the development stage.

Media Player Widgets

When you launch the multitasking interface you see a new set of widgets that control the iPod application. To access it simply swipe to the left, from there you’ll be able to play, pause, move between tracks and open up the iPod app itself.

Multitasking: Closing Applications

Shutting down applications that were running in the background was reported to be problematic with the previous beta versions, but things have been simplified in beta 3. You no longer have to press, hold and click close for each application. Instead you simply press and hold the icon of one of the many applications you’re currently running, and you’ll be given the option to close whatever ones you wish in rapid succession.

Orientation Lock

Landscape mode was one of the many great things brought forward in OS 3.0, but now, one year after its release, Apple has finally realized that not everyone likes having the entire UI flip about thanks to the over-sensitive accelerometer. To enable orientation lock, you simply have to fire up the multitasking interface, swipe to the left and click the Portrait Lock icon.

We will let you know if any other new and interesting features are discovered with iPhone OS 4 beta 3 and SDK. You can keep up with all the news and info by following us on Twitter or by subscribing to out RSS Feed.