The New Features of iOS5 Straight from the Apple Conference
Ryan Burch
October 5th, 2011
Apple is forever giving their OS's a face lift, tweaking some apps, fixing some of its glitches and adding new features that make it standout from their last creation. Apple has announced their new OS5. This new OS has a card app that let's you make your photos into greeting cards and have them printed and shipped to whom you desire. Notifications on the device are new as well. With the older OS version, a big notification window used to take over the current application you were in, OS5 give you an option of swiping down the window/tab, much like Androids, to check the notification or give you a list of all other emails and notifications that you may not have checked. The iMessage has been added as well resembling the RIM version of Blackberry Messenger. This allows iPhones to communicate with iPads and even iPods. No more looking for a third party application to help communicate between Apple devices. They also spiced up the calendar; a reminder trigger app is much like a calendar but you are now able to tag a location to the reminder and whenever you come near to said tagged location, the app will notify you. The camera is a 8mpx, using the lock button as a short cut to the camera so that it takes the trouble out of the user having to unlock the phone first to gain access to the camera. A feature that may please to slowly dying out paper/magazine lover is that Apple has published an app for popular magazines and periodicals such as Allure, GQ, The New York Times, and Vanity Fair.
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This OS is a big thing to the computer industry. Yes, it may catch the attention of many with it's practical new features and improvements but above all that, this is the last OS Steve Jobs had input in. Recognized as a pioneer in the personal computer revolution, we must admire and in all actuality thank him for he was the one who paved the way we operate with all our current electronics one way or another. Apple is taking over the world, one gadget at a time.
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To round it all off, iOS5 is bringing in two more features to make devices even more wireless. the PC Free feature allows IOS devices to be setup out of the box without being connected to a computer and users will now be able to do wireless iOS updates. The other part s support for iCloud (more on that later). Devices that will support iOS5 when it releases include iPhone4 and 3GS, iPad1 and 2, and iPod Tough 3rd and 4th Generation.
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