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Check out Justin Lee’s keypoint summary of the keynote or just refer to Apple’s iOS5 page or the features page for their info about iOS5.
Brief Show Notes
- Lots of ‘finally’s
- Notification Centre
- Similar to Android: swipe down from top to see all notifications
- But done better than Android
- When notification comes in, shows snippet of info at top of screen then disappears
- Notifications shown on lock screen
- Direct access to act on notification from lock screen (swipe notification to access)
- Also has 10 msg limit per app. MobileNotifier (the jailbreak app) has more. UI could be better on mobilenotifier though.
- PC-less activation (makes it more of a standalone device and with iCloud could be a fuller laptop replacement)
- iTunes-less
- Wireless sync
- Camera Upgrades.
- Shutter button.
- Launch from lockscreen (Double-tap home button and click on icon)
- Crop photos, red-eye reduction, one-click enhancement filter thing (auto white balance, levels, etc similar to Preview on OS X)
- Can create albums on iOS!
- Delta Updates!! (no more 600+MB per update) Over the air!
- Notification Centre
- Nice to have
- Reading list (similar to instapaper / Read It Later): only Safari? no where else to access?
- Reader view
- Reminders (similar to Locale / Tasker for Android but those are commercial apps)
- News stand: for magazine subscriptions.
- Twitter Integration.
- Twitter’s trying to be what OpenID wants to be? Online Identity?
- Syncs Twitter Photo to contacts. (similar to what Android does)
- Nice that it allows user to try diff apps without relogin (Though currently this still doesn’t work yet. Apps need to rewrite their apps. Even official Twitter App)
- Twitter sharing in Photos / apps nice
- Android sharing superior as doesn’t have to wait for Google to implement new share options: app needs to support receiving data
- Photo editing
- iPad
- Tabbed browsing
- Split keyboard
- Airplay mirror for iPad2. Great for presentations.
- Requires Apple TV and thus only has HDMI output.
- AirPlay for Windows Media Center – Beta 1
- AirServer For AirPlay To Mac OS X
- AirPlay alternatives I’ve considered:
- UDP streaming via VLC
- WiDI
- iMessage (lot of focus on security. mention encryption)
- Replaces iOS SMS app. ie: could be seamless for normal users.
- Allows iPod and iPads to use. Not sure about Mac, but it’ll be great if it could. (WhatsApp! not available for non 3G / cellulare devices like iPod Touch / iPad WiFi only)
- Alternatives
- Competitor Ecosystem Alternatives
- Google: GTalk
- Microsoft: Skype?
- RIM: BBM
- Some stuff not mentioned on keynote but is pretty cool
- Typing shortcuts / macros. ie: the default on the OS was “omw” would autocomplete to “On my way”
- Some UI improvements. Toggles in options.
- Custom vibrations for incoming calls.
- LED light can be used as notifications (older phones have had this: on Android side depends on manufacturer)
- iOS5 beta and jailbreak
- Your iPhone uidd needs to be registered as a developer iPhone to activate
- Update: How to fully activate iOS 5 beta (the right way)
- You can circumvent using a backdoor but leaves device useless. How to: Bypass activation on iOS 5 betas
- Can’t use phone
- Can’t sync
- Somehow double tap and gestures don’t work (without voiceover) which means:
- You can use notifications centre.
- Also notifications doesn’t work.
- Available in the Fall (September earliest?)