IPhone OS 4 Developer Preview brings multitasking and more to the iPhone

Nice to finally have bluetooth keyboard support. I could never bring myself to use my iPhone as an SSH terminal because typing UNIX commands using the onscreen keyboard drove me crazy. I think landscape 80x24 on the iPhone would even look pretty decent.

I've always been disappointed in iPhone bluetooth support. When we finally got A2DP they only implemented a half-assed AVRCP profile so we couldn't skip tracks with our A2DP headsets. Frustrating. Hopefully version 4.0 of the iPhone OS finally implements this, but I've yet to see confirmation.

"Apple is finally bring a bit more organization to the iPhone with folders, too."

How ironic, when it has just been claimed that Apple killed the file system (a ka organization with folders).

Well who knew? The iPhone really does need multitasking.

I just read the Apple docs, and it's not multitasking in the sense that the world thinks of multitasking. It's more like suspended animation with selected background tasks or events (playing audio, voip, location events, "I need more time to finish my work"' and prescheduled events). This is from a first read of documentation and I haven't coded anything up yet to play.

Wait, you couldn't set the wallpaper with previous iPhones?