Apple used the event WWDC 2011 to announce the news of the iOS 5, the new version of its mobile operating system, which will serve to devices iPad, iPod touch and iPhone. Highlights are the integration with Twitter, Notifications screen, new features on the lock screen and easier access to camera equipment.
As in every keynote, this time led by Scott Forstall, the presentation began by showing the number of IOS, as it claims the system is available in 44% of mobile devices, according to comScore. Another significant number is the value that Apple has already paid the developers for their apps on the AppStore, about $ 2.5 billion. But what matters is know as users of new features, let them:
Notifications
Like Android, the IOS has received a "Notification Center", a main page where the notifications of your favorite apps will be met. The similarity in function Androids this happens even in the form of access that page: putting your finger on top of the screen and dragging it down. The lock screen will also receive summary reports.
Magazine subscriptions
IOS will earn 5 magazine subscriptions for newspapers and publishers worldwide, the Newsstand. Visually, it will work as a iBooks for example, but instead you just buy a book, you subscribe to a magazine monthly to receive it on your machine. Success can be guaranteed between the IPAD owners at their convenience tamnho screen to view and edit pages.
Integration with Twitter
5 with the IOS, you simply configure your Twitter account so that any client of your choice to use it. So you do not need to configure each program to access the network of microblogging.
In addition, other features already present in the device as a camera, Safari, contacts, among others, will integrate a function or another with Twitter. For example: You can illustrate your contact list with photos of their on Twitter. Another integration is promised a "conversation" better structured with Safari, sharing links.
New Features in Safari
What draws the most attention among the news of Safari is that it will have tabs at the iPad. What surely will greatly facilitate navigation on the device, and enjoy the screen size as it should be explored.
Reminders
Another native feature in IOS is five Reminder for you to put "post-its" for the screen and remember the most important commitments. The app will sync with iCal and Microsoft Exchange, and will also serve to create lists, such as that used in supermarkets for example.
Camera features
With five versions of delay, Apple has finally put an icon for you to quickly activate the camera locked on the screen, and it will be possible even if you have a password on your device. By clicking it, you will go straight into the camera and can record that moment, without losing it by the difficulty in triggering the camera.
Another interesting feature is that the button used to increase the volume will serve to take the picture. Moreover, the photos will corrections, as in iPhoto.
The app email received text formatting features. Now you can add bold, underline, and even move between CC and BCC recipients, for example. To make the search more rich, you can now search for terms in the text as well. This will greatly assist the search term does not appear in the title or name of the user. Additionally, you can also add flags to signal messages.
Sync over Wi-Fi
During WWDC 2011, it was announced as the end of the cable. Thus, the updates of the apps and music can be done without connecting your device to your computer. Just do not know yet how this feature can become sluggish, if executed in this way.
Game Center
The Game Center has not received any big news, and continues to be the ugly duckling of the IOS. But now, you can view the friends of your friends, and discover new games under your user profile, much like with music and the Genius feature.
IMessage
Finally a resource for Apple devices communicate with each other by text, without paying anything. Thus, iPad, iPod touch and iPhone can exchange messages via Wi-Fi and 3G, as with BBM (BlackBerry Messenger), or the known platform and IOS Whatsapp PingChat. With IMessage, you also see what your friend is typing something or not.
IOS in May will be released in the fall update for the U.S. in September. The appliances will receive it are: iPad iPad 2, iPhone 3G, iPhone 4, iPod touch and iPod touch 3g 4g, is expected the iPhone to 5 (or iPhone 4S) to come up with this system installed .
