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hi I'm Ken Sherman senior editor here at cnet.com today we got iOS for now that is the newest operating system for the iPhone and most iPod touch devices this operating system will not work on the original iPhone and the first iPod touch and only certain features will work on the iPhone 3G the biggest thing we see from iOS 4 is multitasking to start with the multitasking go down to the home menu you double tap it and you'll see that this menu pops up down at the bottom everything that you're using currently is displayed here if when you want to select an app let's go over here to doodle jumped you click that and you'll go right into the game if you want to get out click the home button again and once you're back in if you want to close something you'll hold that down and you'll see that the button stop the icon start jiggling and you just press that so that's the way to close something once it's open so you do need to go in and end things if you really want to be persistent about doing that so it's just an important thing to note also you need to note that because that home pressing that home button twice now takes you to that multi-tasking menu you no longer have the option in the settings menu where the DoubleTap takes you probably the second biggest edition with iOS 4s home screen folder finally we do have it works pretty well all you need to do is press and hold down on the home screen so again your apps are gonna jiggle we'll take let's say the Amazon app we'll slide it over and we'll drop it on top of the eBay app when you do that both absolutely highlighted and then you'll see you have a new folder the folder does get a default name that's determined by sort of what era what category the apps are in because I put in eBay and Amazon I got lifestyle you're free to change that default name once you created a folder and you want to remove an app from it open that folder again take the icon and drag it back to the homescreen so pretty much works quite well under the email app we all we now have a unified inbox when you open that you'll see all the messages summary multiple accounts organized by the data they've received so the newest will be on top you can go through and you get organized and that threads you can delete them you can move them to folders you just can't access folders the individual folders inside the other accounts from that Universal inbox but it is really nice to see that another new options and you can delete emails directly from search results also you get threaded emails you'll see a little number next to the Ignite to the message and then you can delete and manage them there as well so pretty nice iOS 4 does bring you home screen wallpapers so this will be ability to change that black background behind the behind all the icons you just go to the settings menu you click on the wallpaper option you click on it and then it will say set lockscreen set home screen or set both once you remove that black background so that's standard black background that you've seen once you remove that there's really no way to get it back you can take a picture of I don't know the night sky a black wall or a dark room but it's really not gonna be the same thing finally note that Iowa's 4 does give you some new wallpapers and it does take some away that you've always had so you'll just need to remember that other option iOS 4 include the ability to search text messages you've always been able to do this in emails but now you go directly into the search text message folder and search from there and the photo gallery if you're using iPhoto or aperture II you can actually get face recognition for photos you can also now geotag photos kind of interesting also get a camera zoom for the still camera it's a 5x and the 3GS we did see tap to focus for the still camera we never really thought it made that much difference but now the video camera has it you do have a spellcheck while you're typing so when you're typing you spell on something incorrectly you do get a little red line down below there are few options that we haven't tested quite yet but our coming gets a lot of new enterprise features you get their support for iBooks you also get Game Center Game Center is not available yet who available later in the year we'll have to investigate that when we get there but right now all we know is that's coming later in the year so on the whole I'd say iOS 4 is just as exciting as the iPhone 4 which of course comes out later this week brings these really important features multitasking is the biggest one we also have the Universal inbox and the homescreen folders these are things that we've really been asking Apple for for a long time so it's great to kind of check them out for a list I'm Ken Sherman and this is the first look at i/o s4 you