iPhone 4.0 beta 1 is now available to developers via http://developer.apple.com/ and it doesn't just bring the 7 "tent-pole" features announced so far for consumers, it brings 1500 new APIs to developers including some we've been waiting for for a long time:
- Date data detectors
- Calendar access
- address data detectors
- Automated testing
- Block based animation
- iPod remote control accessories
- In-app SMS
- Regular expression matching
- Performance profiling tools
- Accelerate (2000 API's for hardware accelerated math functions)
- Date formatters
- Spell check
- Photo library access
- Image I/O
- Embed PDF metadata
- Draggable map annotations
- Half-curl page transition
- Quick look
- Power analysis tools
- Full map overlays
- Call event notification
- Full access to still and video camera data
- ICC profiles
