Since I have an iPod Touch of recent vintage, I’m privy to the latest and greatest iPhone operating system, iOS 4. I joined the rush and updated my iPod today. Gizmodo (yeah I know, they’re probably on the wrong side of that “lost” iPod issue) seems to have a pretty good breakdown of the new features, going deep into the main feature list, and then even deeper into some “hidden” features. Many of the new features are obviously iPhone 4 related, but there are a couple that are of interest to me.
The biggest one is iBooks. I doubt that I’ll be reading a ton of books on the iPod but I’m going to give it a test drive. There seems to be a fair amount of free material and each book seems to have a sample. I’ve already grabbed Charles Stross’ Overtime, a Laundry short story, as a freebie, and a sample chapter from William Gibson’s Neuromancer.
I have to admit, “The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.” looks pretty good, even on such a tiny screen.
Meanwhile, looks like iTunes is still teh suck. Oh, now you can edit playlists on the Touch, even if you can’t read the long titles. Sigh!