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hello and welcome to inside scoop I'm Sumi das and joining me is senior writer for cnet Josh Lowensohn Josh thanks for being with us great to be here ok so today's the day that a lot of people have been waiting for in a September 18th and iOS 7 has just dropped it's here it's here I came out you've got it on your phone yes we do all of us are installing it widely and reckless abandon this is everybody is doing this in the office I mean it's really not a productive time right now but is it been a smooth release this far you know it's really too early to tell people are just installing it you know there have been some early reports when people can't actually download it that's probably more due to Apple servers and any sort of installation Apple has actually one of the easiest jobs doing this compared to most hardware makers because they only have a limited amount of devices to kind of figure out before it goes out okay with iOS 7 you can immediately recognize the differences from iOS 6 any previous versions there's more white space it's cleaner fonts are different there's no no that's Q morphic yeah design quality that we saw before so how would you describe it well the big main new features how it looks they've added some new things of course but it's really a change in that old style and like you said the scheme morphism where things would maybe look like wood or you know you pull out the compass and it would actually look like a real couple on ya for better for worse in some cases it is a lot better and in some cases it just doesn't work as well as your my mom's gonna cope yeah there's there are some very confusing things but for most people when you open it up everything is where it used to be everything still works like it used to for the most part and I think in a lot of ways they've improved other things that used to be kind of pain points things like switching quick settings like Wi-Fi and screen brightness those things are all much easier to get to which is a good sign so let's talk about the major changes here what are the most significant differences from the previous iOS well the biggest one is a new feature called control center and this is basically just a quick toggle the same thing that androids really had for a long time that lets you just quickly change a setting something like turning your Wi-Fi on and off or adjusting screen brightness those are things you don't have to go sort of five screens deep used to really have to dig for it so now it's much more much more present that's one big one the second big new feature is the Siri upgrade they've really improved voices she's much more efficient now as she's much more capable I saw somebody using it and say it brightened my screen and she actually did what she was supposed to yeah it definitely has more control over the hardware you can adjust things like screen brightness or turning bluetooth off things like that but it's also more of an app so if you look at something like the movie now you can see the trailer you can look at reviews you can book showtimes all without leaving the app it's pretty impressive same thing goes for like web search results which used to like kind of kick you out to Safari so now it's a little bit less disjointed also there's male and female voices if you're into that and then there's also iTunes radio yeah this is a feature that you have to have itunes 7 but it's also rolling out to apple TV and itunes and this is basically just apples streaming music service right and if you're familiar with something like Pandora the idea is pretty similar you just kind of have stations around artists and you can listen to free with ads or if you're a subscriber of itunes match there's no ads okay um finally is there anybody out there who should not upgrade who should hold off on saying yes to I was seven I think there's always people my brother's one of them he tends to use a lot of apps that are very kind of maybe they don't get upgraded or maybe they're very mission critical for him and he found that they didn't really work as well so I'm for people like that if you really use your phone all the time maybe just wait to see if some of your apps that you're using right now we're compatible before you jump in so I actually do you have one more question which devices is iOS 7 compatible with sure it works with the iphone 4 or later with the ipad 2 or later okay with the fifth-generation iPad touch and there are some differences in things you can run like you'll need a newer Apple device if you want to use this new airdrop file sharing technology because that's that's really just a hardware feature same thing with this serie obviously it's not gonna work on the ipad 2 or the iphone 4 okay all right so that's i was 7 for us we are all gonna go play with it now josh thanks so much my pleasure for inside scoop I'm Sumi das thanks for you