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iOS 7 is finally here and it is way different hey guys its brand am in them in front pocket now and this is hands-on with iOS 7 on the iPhone 5 let's get to it so we are looking at beta 1 this is a Developer Preview the final version will be out in the fall in a few months 3 or 4 months for everyone to download but we wanted to give you a look at what I oh s7 is like using it because there is a lot here guys it goes really really deep so even your starting on the lockscreen swipe to unlock is no longer just on the bottom you can swipe to unlock from anywhere along the lockscreen and when we do a swipe to unlock we have a new animation to go to your home screen it's a subtle little touch but again it just shows that everything in iOS 7 has been redone so if we swipe to unlock and two icons float in first and then everything follows behind it we've got all new fonts we've got a thinner skinnier kind of cleaner looking font here we've also got a new color palette which some people are not going to like it's a neon color palette and you can really tell down here on the phone and the messages icon it is just this bright neon green that you that you might have seen in a storybook when you are a little kid now speaking of little kid these icons are so incredibly simplistic some people think and it is my opinion that they look like they've been haphazardly designed I mean look at this Safari icon look at the settings icon I mean there's a point at which you might go a little too extreme and making things simple and clean but there's a lot to us 7 that is really quite beautiful let's jump into the settings which has been totally redesigned settings was getting really ugly in iOS 6 and below and so we've got a much more cleaner look here everything is as you'd expect it everything is where it's been before but there are some new settings I want to go over the first thing I want to show you is brightness and wallpaper so if we go to choose wallpaper and Apple now has a dynamic wallpaper also known as live wallpaper which Android has been doing for years of course and right now there are only two to choose from while we're in the screen I want to show you something that's really cool we get this back option which has been in iOS 6 for a very long time but new to iOS 7 is the ability to swipe backwards let me let me show you that again just a really handy gesture for one handed usability and this is present throughout the entire operating system whether you're in messages or you're making a new bookmark in Safari and there is that back icon you can always do the swipe and you can even do it repeatedly to go back throughout all of the settings that you're going through now go I'm gonna go back in wallpaper one second because Apple is doing a cool trick with the wallpaper I'm gonna go to stills and I'm gonna choose this wallpaper and I'm gonna click set look very very clean-looking buttons no more gloss no more shine so I'm gonna click set both apples doing this cool thing with the background where when you move the phone the icons move it's very very subtle the icons move along with the background you might not even be able to tell it gives us interesting effect the icons are sort of floating on top of the background again it's so incredibly subtle you barely notice it they'll probably Ratchet that up or down as the betas progress here at iOS 7 let's go back into the settings see what else we have here can we're to use that back gesture which is really nice and we've got Notification Center here which has been redone and let's pull that down what this lets you do here in the Notification Center you've got three tabs which is today all and missed you still can't swipe away notifications like you can an Android unfortunately but this is kind of a cool little glance of glanceable view that lets you see what you're doing today see all of your notifications of your missed notifications you can't swipe between them like again you can an Android and what's also kind of neat about the notification shade is that it's slightly translucent so if you have a background that has some color on it you'll just kind of see through it and Apple is really doing a lot of this gauzy and blur kind of effect where it looks like a layer on top of another layer which is just a really nice UI touch so let's go back into here we've got some new settings for Notification Center not going to go through them too much in-depth look at these new toggles kind of these basic toggles they don't look metallic anymore they look just sort of graphical very very simple and clean we can turn various things off in the Notification Center and so forth we've got a new thing called control center which the jailbreaking community has been doing for a very long time swiping up from the bottom will bring up this quick control and just like the Notification Center it will inherit the color of the background so if we're on the home screen here more whoo you get that kind of blueish look if you're in settings it's kind of white you swipe up you get a kind of white look and from here you can toggle on Bluetooth Wi-Fi Do Not Disturb screen lock and you can see everything that is here you get some quick shortcuts down here to stuff that you cannot change such as the camera calculator no idea what the heck that is and flashlight so this will bring you into your obviously your your calculator if you tap and hold on this nothing happens you cannot change them we're going to the camera in a minute another thing that's been changed is the multitask UI and this is again another thing that the jailbreaking community has been doing for eons they've been making this card view and Apple finally did it so what you get here and let's let's start from the beginning here if you double tap the home button first you start off with your most recently used app and then if you swipe over you get three things on the screen at the top at a time this looks a lot like Windows Phone to me and it's it's a little bit low on utility because you can only see four things on the screen at a time actually one two three four five to be exact and just like in the multitask switchers of the jailbreak community you can swipe up and exit the app and it shows you a full screen preview of these things which is really nice looking not exactly sure it's more efficient than the old icon thing but it's definitely a lot more beautiful let's go into Safari because the browser has been changed and speaking of the browser when we go up here to the web address bar you're gonna see the new Kay the new keyboard here which is really nice so we are gonna go to pocketnow.com but interestingly the keyboard only will work if the developer supports it so for example if we go into the Facebook app which obviously has not been updated for iOS 7 yet and we go over here and we search you're gonna see the old keyboard so developers have to update their app to include the new keyboard which is a little bit of a shame but it's just gonna take some time so I'm gonna use the multi task switcher to go back here to pocket now and we've got a new UI here for the browser we've got these icons on the bottom which again might be too much to the degree of simplicity because you might not know what they do until you actually press them the share button here and from here you still can't share to third-party like Instagram and other services that you might have on an Android phone for example we can do airdrop that's a new feature then there's these other things that we can do here plus print over here is your bookmarks kind of used to that and again here's a place in the UI where you have that back button so I can just do that swipe to go back which is nice I'm gonna click done up there down here we have a new tab UI that looks a lot like what Google Chrome does so we've got this kind of 3d view then we've got a really cool listing of the iCloud bookmarks if you have an iPad or another iPhone and from here we can just tap on your tab and go to the next running and so forth browser performances it's just fine it's always good on iOS as you move along the page here you kind of get this full-screen view which is a really nice thing and over up here at the top you see the address bar it kind of collapses and there's a little bit of translucency it's very subtle but if you look at where the AT&T logo is you might see the images kind of tint the color there we go see the blue so a lot of little subtle touches like this just make I Oh s delightful to use and speaking of the AT&T logo look at the new signal bars they are no longer the standard you know bars they're just circles with dots filled in with color a little touch I'm not sure that they had to fix something that wasn't broken but but but there you have it so let's go into the photo gallery I know this is getting to be a long video but there's just a whole lot to show you here go to the photo gallery it's really interesting what they've done here because a lot of people have this situation right where you have so many pictures to go through them you got to kind of flip flip flip flip flip and some people thousands of pictures so now either now pictures are organized by all kinds of criteria you start off by years right so we're gonna go into years and we're gonna go into collections and again there's that back button there which means that we can do the do the swipe here sometimes maybe maybe not maybe not in this screen and from collections we can drill down a little bit further and then we go to moments which is kind of cool because iOS is trying to group your photos into events things that happen kind of like each the HTC one does with events and some other phones can do and from here that's really as far as you can go you can tap on a picture you can zoom in you can click Edit to click on to the editing tools and so forth kind of what you're used to and then you can back all the way out and you just have a nicer way to organize your photos which is quite fantastic finally let's take a look at the camera see what they've done here we've got a new UI here I'm going to go into landscape and we can either click on the name of the different type of photo here which is pano square photo and video or you can actually swipe and there's really not that much more you can do with it this is this is always oh it has always been iOS as thing except that now we get real-time effects something that Android has been doing forever which is kind of cool taking advantage of modern processing technology to be able to do this on the fly it's kind of cool so there's my hand with an effect and and so forth it takes photos pretty cool and another thing here to show you is folders folders has been redone this is what folders look like they're just these grey sort of rounded circle the square things but the cool thing about folders now is that you can have multiple panels for folders and there's no limit to how many panels you can have we really haven't been able to hit the maximum there's probably a maximum of you know 9 times 10 90 icons in a folder but this is actually kind of ugly and unfortunately another thing that they did not change with iOS 7 is that folders don't close when you click into an app so if I go into doodle jump and then I go back to the homescreen folder stays open that's not how it's supposed to go Android has it right where it closes the folder so overall what we see here is a very very deep redesign of everything that you know about iOS and it really does look nice it's incredibly different some people are gonna have trouble with these neon colors but you got to admit that there's this overall smoothness that has been brought to the operating system that just wasn't there before it's definitely a lot more modern than before however there's no new functionality that really puts it ahead of the other operating systems out there which is a huge leg up for Android and for Windows Phone because Android is focusing a lot on functionality with Google now and bringing information to you before you know you need it and Windows Phone well when this one is entirely different of course on its own so iOS 7 something to definitely look forward to it's not a paradigm shift it's just a refinement really on pretty much the entire experience which is a great thing do i disability oh please give us a thumbs up and thanks for watching that's it for now you