iPad iPhone OS 3.2 Secrets Revealed

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Steve Jobs didn’t mention during the official keynote what OS was the iPad going to use and it took some digging to discover what we were looking for. iPhone OS 3.2 is a special operating system customized for iPad use only. That means that our iPhones and iPod touches are not going to get a software upgrade anytime soon. But that doesn’t mean that iPhone OS 3.2 doesn’t have what it takes to run on the iPhone or iPod touch.

In fact iPhone OS 3.2 shows us briefly what the next-gen iPhone OS and iPhone will be able to deliver. It looks like iPhone OS 3.2 comes with support for video calling and video conferencing. That’s pretty weird in the first place since the iPad can’t do any of that particularly because it doesn’t have any webcam whatsoever let alone a front-facing cam needed for video calls.

Furthermore it has been revealed that once a video call has been started the user will be able to scale the video in either full screen or just a portion of it. That means the user might do something else while chatting. Do you know what we call that? Multitasking, a feature that’s not yet available on either device yet but it should definitely arrive at some point in the future.

Other secret features of iPhone OS are file downloading support and local storage. SMS support is also present within the code and phone support, handwritting keyboard and a spellchecker have also been spotted.

Should we assume that iPhone OS 4.0 will bring us all these features? We will definitely have to wait until later this year when iPhone 4G and iPhone OS 4.0 rumors will start to pour in.

In the mean time you’ll be interested to know that the OS running on the iPad can be installed and successfully run on the iPhone or iPod touch. Although you wouldn’t want to do that, would you?