Details about iOS 4.3 have started to emerge in light of the beta that Apple recently made available to the developer community. Among these details, it seems that, after the failure of Ping, Apple may be trying its luck again with another social media attempt.
The iPad’s home screen has had landscape mode compatibility since product launch, but Apple has not yet brought that feature to the iPhone. Many have asked for a landscape home screen, but it has been absent from the iPhone for years. Well, that is, until now…
Thanks to an anonymous source (I’m assuming Apple developer), a Youtube video has been posted that shows off some cool features that could be in iOS 4.3, including an enhanced landscape mode and multitouch gestures.
A landscape home screen has been available in the jailbreak community for quite some time. Awhile back, we reviewed a Cydia app called SBRotator, which allowed customizable landscape orientation on a jailbroken iPhone’s home screen.
The biggest complaint about a landscape home screen has been the problem of icon resizing and placement when switching from portrait mode. The iPad succeeds at this task because of how large the screen is, and because of all of the buffer space it puts between icons to support orientation changes.
Apple really has no reason to not implement a landscape home screen. It has already been accomplished successfully by jailbreakers, and it can actually look pretty good.
9to5Mac has posted a Youtube video showing off iOS 4.3′s new multitouch gestures and landscape capability on the iPhone. Most of these features were nowhere to be seen in the public beta. This shows that Apple is testing their own blend of iOS 4.3. (Maybe with new hardware?)
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