Following yesterdays WWDC keynote at which Steve Jobs promised the availability of a golden master candidate; developers now have the GM seed available to download alongside a beta of iTunes 9.2.
iTunes 9.2 comes with several new features and improvements, including:
- Sync with iPhone 4 to enjoy your favorite music, movies, TV shows, books and more on-the-go
- Sync and read books with iPhone or iPod touch with iPhone OS 4 and iBooks 1.1
- Organize and sync PDF documents as books. Read PDFs with iBooks 1.1 on iPad and any iPhone or iPod touch with iPhone OS 4
- Organize your apps on your iPhone OS 4 home screens into folders using iTunes
- Faster back-ups while syncing an iPhone or iPod touch with iPhone OS 4
- Performance improvements make scrolling much faster
iOS 4 previously known as iPhone OS 4 GM build 8A293 is a 378MB download for the iPhone 3GS and 292MB for the iPhone 3G and is only currently available to registered iPhone developers.
The OS beta release is also accompanied by a new SDK beta which is labelled build 10M2262.
iOS 4 is a major OS release from Apple due out for the iPhone and iPod touch on June 21 and will be available for the iPad in the fall. The major OS update introduces over 100 new features and seven major features:
- Multitasking
- App Folders
- Enhanced Mail app
- iBooks for iPhone and iPod touch
- Enhanced enterprise features
- Game Center
- iAd