iOS 4 is the past, iOS 5 is the future
Now as this is a iPod & iPhone info site, I won’t explain about Mac OS X Lion. I’ll just explain about iOS 5.
iOS 5 adds 200+ new user features and 1500 new API’s to developers. Here are just 5 of those 200+ user features in iOS 5:
1. Notifications (Notification Center) 
Now in iOS 5 when you get a new email, text, request and more, you’ll get a banner at the top of the screen showing you the notification. The notification then disappears away with a cube transition so you can continue what your doing. If you ever want to look at the notification again (along with other notifications) just swipe down from the top to enter Notification Center. In Notification Center you can also view weather and stock widgets.
2. iMessage 
iOS 5 brings iMessage, which sends unlimited texts from your iOS 5 device to another iOS 5 device, Absolutely FREE! You can send them from your iPad, iPhone and iPod touch over Wi-Fi or 3G. As well as sending texts you can send photos, videos, location and contacts. All your texts are encrypted and secure and you can also resume a conversion on another iOS 5 device.
3. Twitter 
iOS 5 comes with Twiter integration. This allow user to post pictures, articles, video and even location to their Twitter account. You only sign in once in settings and you can tweet in Photos, Safari, Youtube and Maps. You can even mention or @reply to another Twitter user, all on your device.
4. Camera and Photos 
The camera and photos app in iOS 5 have been updated and have some new features. Lets start with the camera, first if you double press the home button in the lock screen you’ll have a button to go straight to the camera app. When taking a picture there are some new features like grid lines, pinch to zoom and lock focus and exposure. You can also take pictures now, with the volume up button, which is a brillaint feature. Next photos with some photo enhancements which lets you crop, rotate, remove red-eye and auto enhance.
5. PC Free and Wi-Fi Sync 
With iOS 5, you no longer have to connect your device to activate in iTunes. It’s all done on the device. Restore from a back up and even download software updates right from your device. With Wi-Fi sync you can wirelessly sync and back up to iTunes even if you have a Mac or PC. Just connect your device to power source and it automatically syncs.
That’s just 5 features from over the 200+ new user features in iOS 5. iOS 5 will be released in the fall and the devices that can download iOS 4.3 will be able to download iOS 5. For more feature and information please visit apple.com/ios/ios5 If you want to see WWDC ’11 the video is below along with the iOS 5 video.
