iPhone Multi-touch Gestures, Photo Streaming
Apple has pushed out the second iOS 4.3 beta build full with hints about the upcoming features for existing and future devices. The first iOS beta did give us a glimpse of several new and upcoming features. MacRumors reported that the iPad 2 will have Camera, FaceTime and Photobooth. This was drawn from the wallpaper selection preview. Also, BoyGeniusReport procured the screenshot of multi-gestures being tested internally for the iPhone in addition to the iPad.
While most of us anxiously await the announcement of the iPad 2 as we call it, several features of that upcoming tablet are being hinted in the iOS 4.3 update. As per a MacRumors report, the screenshot of a wallpaper selection preview in the iOS 4.3 beta 2 showed three icons more than the usual ones. These three icons were FaceTime, Camera and Photobooth. Last week, a string of code found in the first iOS 4.3 beta indicated that new camera effects would be added to the iPhone. These new camera effects include Thermal Camera, X-Ray, Kaleidoscope, Turbine, Tunnel of light, Collapse, Enlarge, and Normal.
Now, as per the new icon discovered, the iPad 2 will have a front facing camera that will enable FaceTime and also bring the Photobooth feature to the iPad. Mac OS X already offers Photobooth app that can be used to click portrait images with different camera effect filters.
Earlier, we found out that iOS 4.3 would bring multi-touch gestures for iPad but that wasn't it. The multi-touch gestures for various important functions including multi-tasking would be extended to almost all devices that support multi-tasking. The following gestures could be performed once multi-touch gestures are enabled.
- Pinch to the Home Screen
- Swipe up to reveal multi-tasking bar
- Swipe left or right between apps
So basically, Apple is beefing up the iOS 4.3 update to bring a bunch of new features and also some hints about the future iOS devices. From the host of features inferred from iOS 4.3 and reported so far, it seems Apple indeed has taken the competition from Google Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablets seriously.
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