“Now you can run your favorite third-party apps — and switch between them instantly — without slowing down the performance of the foreground app or draining the battery unnecessarily.”

Kinda. Their multitasking is exactly the same as Android’s, except an app is actually ended and its state saved when you switch to another app. You require the app to have been written to include a service or push notification to be told anything about it whilst it’s in the “background”.

Whereas Android leaves apps running quite happily, only ending them (and saving their state) when memory is low. It does this automatically and means you can truly multitask, no services required.

So they have something that looks like multitasking for third party apps, whilst not actually being multitasking.

“Create custom playlists right on your iPhone.”

What, like I can do on my Nexus One? Or like I could do on my Rio Karma in 2003?

“Change the background wallpaper on your Home screen.”

What, like I can do on my Nexus One?

“Organize apps into folders with drag-and-drop simplicity. Get faster access to your favorites and browse and manage up to 2160 apps.”

Yeah OK, you’ve got me there. I can’t do folders on my Nexus One...tho I can access the *actual* filesystem if I want and make *actual* directories, so all is not lost.

“5x digital zoom Get closer to your subjects by zooming in up to 5x.”

It doesn’t matter if you do HD or you have a 5mp camera with digital zoom, picture quality is all about the sensor. The phone that is going to knock the ball out of the park on this front isn’t the iPhone4, it’s the Nokia N8 which has the largest sensor of any cameraphone and manages 14mp images and beautiful HD video.

“Home screen wallpaper Change the background wallpaper on your Home screen.”

Like you’ve been able to do on...oh...any handset since they invented colour handsets?

“Gift apps Send apps as gifts to your friends or family.”

Why would anyone want to?

“Spell checking A built-in spell checker works in Mail, Notes, and other apps.”

Like Android?

“Wireless keyboard support Pair a keyboard based on Bluetooth wireless technology with your iPhone.”

There’s an app for that (in the Android Market)

FaceTime: video calling. Wifi only (no 3G).

2003 is on the line. It wants its video calling back.

Big battery, interesting screen (as in I’d have to see it to pass judgement, but there’s no way it can compete with the colour and vibrance of my Nexus’s OLED or the N8’s OLED).

Overall, not overly impressed. There’s not really anything it can do that my Nexus can’t other than 720p video, and that’s coming soon.

iOS4 seems buggy as hell too at the moment.

So yeah, probably not gonna get it