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ios5 gets released with over 200 new features for users I thought also got released and it's nothing that we expected but it's still cool and there was one more thing but that wasn't an iphone for us all this and more coming up right now hello everybody I'm high metal even and welcome to the pocket nail I pervy the show we go through all this week school and they're not so cool inside the world of Apple's iOS devices let's start this week off with the cool now apple's WWDC event kicked off with Steve Jobs releasing iOS 5 among other things though the event was mostly for software the enhancements the Iowas five were kind of substantial but not everything was perfect we'll talk more about that in not so cool section but breezing through the really cool things let's start with Notification Center which is a swipe from the top to bring you notifications and more like an Android sort of design you can also get them from the lock screen you also get deep Twitter integration enhancements to Safari like the reader view that you get on max in Safari and reader lists more like what you get an Instagram reminder service that it's more like the test service that you get on exchange but that iOS hexa neglected for years you also get rich text on email enhancements to the camera where you can now take pictures faster from the lock screen and even use the volume up button as a shutter which is kind of cool and best of all you don't need a pc anymore or a mac to use your device you can now activate your device and it's totally pc free ever since you buy it and that's pretty much the same for the iPhone the iPad and the ipod touch these are pretty much a list that we just breeze through of 200 plus enhancements that are coming to iOS 5 and that we will expect in the fall to be released for the iphone 3gs the iphone for all the ipads and the third generation and fourth generation ipod touch kind of cool enhancements again not everything is perfect and we'll talk about more of that later well I cloud was released and boy was everybody wrong with their predictions this is not a music streaming service this is so much more than just that it's pretty much mobile meat on steroids in the past you had to pay 99 bucks to get mail contacts founders bookmarks sync between your devices but that was pretty much it you still needed your PC for pretty much everything that had to sync with your device now I cloud makes the PC become something of the past you don't no longer need your PC to do anything with your iOS device as mentioned in the past column first of all our cloud will allow you to sync everything or pretty much everything with your device including applications music purchases videos photos and everything happens instantly to the cloud with no need to be syncing anything with a cable now what makes iCloud really cool is that you pretty much get it for free now you get 5 gigabytes of storage for free but that does not include the storage you need to include your applications your pictures or your videos it pretty much only includes the fact that you can sync I work documents to your iCloud service with those five gigabytes which is more than enough for just documents and also applications if you ask us I cloud is more than what we expected though you know it's still not perfect then we will talk about that in the not-so-cool section also but wait there's more alongside iCloud Apple is also releasing a service called iTunes Match if you remember on our test I reviews we used to talk about the fact that Apple will probably offer service well they'll replace your current music either ripped or pirated from your library and offer better quality songs at a price well iTunes Match is just that it'll cost you twenty-five dollars a year and it'll search within your music library for all the music that you have that has that they offer better quality in the iTunes Store and as a difference from amazon cloud player and google music you don't have to upload all your music to the cloud Apple will detect whichever songs you have on your library and just replace the songs which it has better quality and it actually replaces the song for a 256 kilobits per second AAC file that's drm three so if you think about it it's kind of cool because you're not going to take weeks to upload all your music to the cloud the cloud will upload some of the music that it doesn't detect within the iTunes library but then the rest of it will only be replaced with the current services offered in itunes in their store it's a really cool service and if you think about it only cost you like 50 cents an album and apparently there's a limit of 20,000 songs I mean I have a current music library of about 20 gigabytes and that's 4,000 songs so it's pretty much unlimited I mean it's really cool well that is our for the cool let's continue on with the not so cool you know we all expected to get an iphone 4s or an iPhone 5 on this event and yeah we all smile chimed and got crazy when Steve came up on stage and said wait small thing and well sadly it wasn't an iphone 4s as Steve mentioned it was small we didn't get a device we didn't get you know any updates on when Apple will be releasing a new device we are expecting it to make the itunes music event so you know it's not cool that the apples losing their yearly cycles and even their stock has been getting a strong hit because they're forgetting about the fact that well they've always been accountable for timely releases and it seems that they're going to wait for Google's or release their gingerbread and when those phone 7 to be released and pretty much just put everything on top even though well not all the enhancing that we got with iowa's five were really that groundbreaking let's talk about that too okay so what was not so cool about iOS 5 well first of all think about it we've been dealing with the iconic you I ever since 2007 where I still remember in 2007 that I was using an old HTC device that was rocking windows mobile 5.0 things changed a lot in Windows Mobile things changed a lot in Android palm switched to webos and then we still have the same user interface that Apple released in the same timeline I mean I do understand that a lot of people are really enjoying the iconic you I because it's simple but then again a lot of us power users are compelled to end up jailbreaking our devices because we're tired of seeing icons after icons after icons we weren't expecting for iOS 5 to bring widgets or at least some changes but sadly we're disappointed about that and aside from that you know Apple there are certain things that you release that are pretty much basic and Brandon came up with an editorial that was really great and it mentioned the fact that there are certain things that are not supposed to be even groundbreaking like for example using the volume up button as a shutter which is pretty much something that you could have brought you know a long time ago it's not groundbreaking a lot of things were copying from windows phone 7 and for example the new notification system was copied from Android we can also say that a lot of Android and Windows Phone 7 was copied from iOS from the start and that pretty much everybody just threw away all their plans as Apple released the iphone and yeah you know everybody was a copycat of the iphone in their time but we weren't expecting apple to come up with the same card eventually I mean Apple you're all about innovation now one of the things that I'll mention that I was probably expecting the most was you know simple things to change like for example if I want to make a phone call on an iPhone hmm after first of all going to the phone app then go into my contacts if this contact is not in my favorites swipe all the way to the top of the search bar that's step 3 then look for my contact as i type that that's step 4 then touch the contact then touch the phone number you have six steps to make a phone call how about a simple swipe from the bottom and you get a t9 dialer these are the number and you either get a number or name in the entire lid I mean those are the things that are really great about blackberry that you just have to start typing and you get the phone number and again Steve and your first keynote with the release of the iPhone you said that the killer app for smartphones was making phone calls but the palm is the iphone is still lagging on the very simple things and hopefully we're now going to have to wait for iOS 6 next year anyways okay so what was wrong about iCloud actually nothing I crowd was really cool but hey here's a ex mobileme user that recently paid a renewal in May for 99 bucks and I just got a little email that said hey you know your subscription will now be pulled all the way to July next year and then you'll lose it and there go my 99 bucks I mean how about if I get a refund because I purchased it about a month ago and you know I even have a friend that purchased the two days before the keynote and he's not getting any money back I mean come on guys is you know it's it's the nice thing to do if you're making icloud free at least current mobileme subscribers that probably paid 60 days ago could at least get a refund that's the you know the nice thing to do that's it for today show thank you very much for watching I'm hi never be better remember to give us a thumbs up if you liked what you saw that's it for now