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iOS 5 Full Details

2011-06-06
hey guys so today at the world wide developer conference Apple unveiled iOS 5 there are a lot of great new features so let's begin with the new notification center if you are an Android user these new notifications will look very familiar as you pull down from the status bar to see all of your new notifications on top of that you can see notifications on your home screen from a wide variety of apps so that's SMS call for example you just need to swipe across the notification to view it next is Twitter integration in iOS 5 you can log into your Twitter account from a new settings page and have access to your account from several built-in application such as Safari youtube and maps once Twitter is connected you can use it to populate your contacts page as well which looks really awesome moving on we have a revamped version of Safari the first new feature is reader which works similarly to Safari on the Mac and PC and allows you to strip extra content out of websites to give you a more basic and simple reading interface there's also a new feature called reading list which allows you to save web pages to read later it even works on multiple devices so for example you could begin reading a page on your iPhone and finish it later on your iPad best of all is this new support for tabbed browsing and Safari making it much easier to view multiple sites at a time the camera app has also been majorly overhauled you can now take a photo right from the lock screen as well as use the volume up button as a shortcut to taking a picture you can also do some neat tricks such as pinch to zoom while taking a photo as well as having a decent photo editor that allow you to do some retouching from inside the camera app a huge feature is pc free now in iOS 5 you can sync and activate your iPhone iPod Touch or iPad without even needing a computer keeping with this all new software updates are going to be downloaded to your device making it totally plausible to never plug your device into a computer ever software updates are now going to be much smaller as well by downloading the updates as opposed to the entire OS another big feature is I message drawing a lot of inspiration from BBM and working for the iphone ipod touch and ipad you can now message between other users with text video photos and contacts and it is supported on 3g and Wi-Fi there is also a lot of smaller updates including Wi-Fi syncing to iTunes and multitasking gestures iOS 5 will be released later this fall for everyone and a beta version is available to the developers starting today it will be available for the iphone 3gs iphone 4 ipod touch 3rd generation touch 4th generation iPad 1 and ipad 2 so overall I have to say that I'm very impressed with iOS 5 while it wasn't a revamp Apple certainly add a wide variety of new features giving a lot of new life to the iphone ipod touch and ipad what do you think definitely be sure to let me know in the comments below
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