Engadget goes hands-on with iOS 5
Our big sister site, Engadget, had a chance to go hands-on with iOS 5 the other day at WWDC and took oodles of screenshots to enjoy. TUAW, of course, has a number of writers who also have had a day or two to grope the new iOS, but who are limited by Non-Disclosure Agreements to what they can say about pre-release software.
As a result, we're going to point you to Jacob Schulman's lovely screenshots and galleries so that you can get a developer's-eye view of the new features that make iOS 5 so enchanting. Among my favorites? The notification screens seen above.
So many of us have wanted to be able to check mail, messages, weather, stock prices, and more at a glance -- this fall, it all comes to iPhone. I'm also pretty happy with the improvements to the camera app and the ability to bring up the camera from the lock screen. No more fumbling through unlocking the iPhone, finding the camera app, and then finally getting the camera pointed at the subject -- which has moved on in the interim.
Enjoy the photos at Engadget, and let us know what your most highly anticipated iOS 5 feature is.
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Our big sister site, Engadget, had a chance to go hands-on with iOS 5 the other day at WWDC and took oodles of screenshots to enjoy....
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Anyone got the LED alert to work? Doesn't seem to light at all (except in Camera.app)
June 08 2011 at 3:52 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyYou enabled it in accessability right?
June 08 2011 at 11:36 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplySure did. Doesn't do squat for me. Guess you can't expect too much from a beta 1 haha.
Otherwise it seems pretty stable. The new iPad iPod.app has issues playing back purchased music; and Videos.app displays TV episodes in alphabetical order rather than episode number, but other than that, I haven't had any issues with it!
please say we can remove the stocks? i don't really care about stocks.
June 08 2011 at 1:18 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyYes, you can remove any items from notification center, and reorder them.
June 08 2011 at 2:03 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyYes you can control what and in what order gets put in notifications
June 08 2011 at 11:37 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyWhat I still like to see, but probably will never happen is the ability to change default browser, or default camera app, that would be very nice, also for notification center, what if I don't need stock quotes? wouldn't be nice to use that extra space to add a sbsettings like panel instead?
June 08 2011 at 12:53 PM Report abuse Permalink +2 rate up rate down ReplySo apart from the push notifications like missed calls, emails, txts, etc., what other apps will feed data to here in the same fashion as the stocks and weather? I have no need for the stock ticker and don't prefer Yahoo! Weather to others like Weather Bug and The Weather Channel, so what else can we look forward to filling that real estate with?
June 08 2011 at 12:52 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplySo far any app that I have that has notifications will go into the new notification center. You can then choose which ones you want for the settings menu for notifications. My Sportacular are working great now. I've got the first couple of sport scores showing up.
You can also choose to have them play sounds or not. So I have email that plays a sound, but not Sportacular. This way I know when it is something I should look at now or when I awake the screen later on I see the rest of the notifications that may not be as popular.
So far the only "widget" style is weather and stock. others are notifications like you alrady get with popup notifications. You can also choose to have them on the screen old school (you have to acknowledge those) ot if you want none or if you want at the top.
Also there is the badges you can keep those or turn those off and the sounds for the notifications can be turned off on many.
Has anyone been able to move their ME account to iCloud as a developer?
June 08 2011 at 12:03 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyYou can manually transfer data (contacts calendars etc) but not transfer your MobileMe account until iCloud goes live apparently.
Personally, I've set up a new iCloud account using my iPad and used that to sync Reminders and Photostream ONLY. Everything else is still done via MobileMe.
Same here. I have a gmail apple id for itunes from premobile me. Have my mobile me syncing mail contacts notes find my phone and all that. And made a new icloud for photostream, reminders, cal (testing if reminders shows in cal), and the backup in icloud.
three accounts to keep up with at the moment lol
I *think* I read in the release notes the iCloud backup isn't working (yet) .. or at least not working properly. Just fyi
June 09 2011 at 10:54 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate downhas anyone been able to move their me account to iCloud as a developer?
June 08 2011 at 12:02 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyAll these dog and pony Apps are interesting but I only really care about a handful of things, as someone in eduction looking to have Students use iPads instead of laptops.
1) What are the new (if any) management hooks in iOS. A master Passcode that is different then the Lockscreen would be nice so students can set other student devices to wipe after 4 failures. Also integration with Apple Remote Desktop for screen viewing would be nice... a subset of AirPlay Mirrioring?
2) AirDrop for iOS. That looks so good on Lion and would be super posative for "take one pass the rest down" assigment handout as well as passing group work back and fourth. Not to mention handing in assignments to the teacher.
So far I hear nothing about stuff that will improve the iPad for use in education. If the TUAW folks could bug the Engadget folks to bug Apple about improvements to Education uses I would be greatful and you'd be doing us in primary education a service. The quicker the better as this is the time of year many outside Grants (meaning funding) are coming due so having info like this helps with the writing.
What I really need is a system widget with these options: 3G, WiFi, Bluetooth, and Brightness. Maybe Location, Airplane Mode, and VPN as well. That's all I ask for, I just don't want to have to dig into menus to access these commonly used features!
Heck, move the iPod Widget up to the notifications center as well. Having to double tap the home button all the time is putting a LOT of stress on it, and already it's not working as cleanly as I got it out of the box.
Yeah, I totally agree -- some way to easily toggle network settings is the only thing that's still missing for me…! I just don't understand why they are still holding back on that…?! There would be so many ways ti implement it easily, like for instance wherever you are just tap the top of the screen (where the time is shown) and a widget/bezel/whatever pops up that gives you the option to toggle 3G, Bluetooth, WiFi, Airplane mode and VPN or so -- kinda like you do with the speaker etc. while making a phone call…! How frickin' hard can that be…?!? ;-/
June 08 2011 at 5:55 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI'm just wondering if, along with other calendar changes, they have finally added the ability to set more complex repeating appointments.
June 08 2011 at 10:59 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyExample?? Ill test if you ask what you are trying to do..
so far only thing i see is invites for the difference.
still is normal start and end date. repeat day week 2week month year, set invitees, alert and 2nd alert, what cal to add it to, url and notes.
Anyone who knows if the part that shows stock is mandatory? Afaik, 90% of users don't want to know, and it was OK when it was just an app that you could hide away, but why mix it in with the notifications?
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