iOS 5 is coming out this fall with over 200 new features. We already have the developers kit and want to share some of our favorites.
Notification Center. Have you ever been on your phone or listening to music when you receive a notification? The phone goes silent for a few seconds. Apple has fixed this. In iOS 5, you can choose how notifications for each app are handled. You can have them appear in the traditional manner where your current activity is interrupted, you can have them appear as an unobtrusive banner at the top of the screen without any interruption, or you can have them go straight to the Notification Center without bothering you. If, for whatever reason, you don’t notice a notification, it will be present in Notification Center, so you won’t risk missing it entirely.
The notice looks like this:
Also, I get all kinds of notifications: email, friend requests, tweets, texts, and more. With iOS 5, the notification center can be seen from the lock screen. With one swipe, you can pull the notification up and react to it.
iMessage. Users will be able to test with the iPad and iPod. You will be able to send unlimited text messages via Wi-Fi or 3G from you iPad, iPod or iPhone. Any members of your household not quite old enough for their own phone but glued to their iPod? This will be great for them.
Reminders. I already use the calendar on my phone to organize my schedule. But I have to go through the event screen. iOS 5 is adding a To Do feature that lets you add reminders.
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The reminder can be location based. Suppose you need to drop a form off at your child’s school? With the reminder feature, you will get an alert when you pull into the school parking lot.
Twitter.
With iOS 5, sign in once on settings and you can tweet directly from your device. You can also tweet while in a different app. For example, you can tweet an article while in Safari or a video while in You Tube.
Camera.
You will LOVE the improvements to the camera feature. You will be able to open your camera from the lock screen. Picture?
Also, press the volume-up button to take a picture. Picture. This feels like a much more natural way to hold the camera when taking a picture.
Also, the iOS 5 gives you more tools to enhance the quality of the photos you take. You can use grid lines to compose the picture. iOS 5 also provides autofocus and autoexposure features. It will allow you to remove red eye. You can also crop and rotate the picture.
iOS 5 is compatible with iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPod touch 3rd generation, iPod touch 4th generation, iPad and iPod2.
