There’s no questioning that at iOS 5 Apple is rolling out some interesting, new functionality to the end user. Have you seen the iOS 5 video yet?
Cool Things in iOS 5 and the iOS 5 Video… the following are but a few of the cool, new features coming at "5":
- An even easier, more intuitive, more powerful experience
- Notification animations, and vertical swipe with all your notifications
- See messages on your lock screen
- Newsstand with magazines – easy-to-organize bookshelf displaying the covers of all your newspaper and magazine subscriptions
- Location based reminders remind you when you arrive some place
- Tweet directly from photos and add location directly with upload
- Access camera from the lock screen
- One tap enhance and photo editing
- Rich text editing, ideal for bloggers!
- Airplane mirroring
The iOS 5 beta software and SDK are available immediately for iOS Developer Program members at developer.apple.com.
When can you get it? iOS 5 will be available as a free software update for iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPad 2, iPad, iPod touch (fourth generation) and iPod touch (third generation) this fall.