iOS 5 beta Revue

Hello Revüsters!

It has been a while since I’ve posted, but today I’ll be talking about the new iOS 5 beta!
Upgrading to iOS 5 was a bit of trouble. It took many hours, but it worked!

Right in the beginning, I have to say iOS 5 is completely amazing. I’ve discovered many features, but not all the 200+ Apple claims to have put in. If you’re an iPhone owner, it won’t be a challenge trying to get used to iOS 5. Even if you’re not an iPhone owner, getting used to the new feel of iOS is a piece of cake.

Now to start revuing some the features the iOS 5 has to offer.

This is the Notification Center. This is amazingly useful. There’s no more annoying pop-ups (you can change that if you want for certain things) and it alerts you in a way where you don’t have check the notification ASAP. You also get updated local weather and a stock market ticker. Not too crazy about the ticker, but the weather is really useful for me.

Reminders is also a great app to have. It’s basically a todo list, but it’s more than a todo list. You can be notified at what time you want the app to remind you about something AND a location you want to be reminded at. Isn’t it great?

There’s also Twitter integration into the actual iOS. It’s actually really cool because it can check your contacts to see if they also have a Twitter.
(Make sure to follow me @applezme !)

What’s cool about the new mail app is now you can bold, underline and italicize parts of your email. This is really interesting because instead of trying to make you POINT with capitalization you can B/U/I.

The last thing I’ll be talking about- the camera.

Now you can take pictures straight from your lock screen to never miss those moments.

In the camera app, you have the option to turn on the grid option to help you align your pics. Another special feature I found out was when you take a screen shot, it keeps the screen shot in that orientation. As you can see, I had my iPhone in landscape and when I took a screen shot, it stayed in landscape! This was really awesome to find out because it was a real hassle to show screen shots sometimes.

Everything is all fun and perfectly working, right?
Think again.

Even though there are so many awesome things about iOS 5, we still have to consider it’s still in beta testing. I know a few things have been a little frustrating for me (safari opens then crashes, takes a while to sync, not all features such as wireless syncing are working, etc.) but I just put them to the side.

Overall, iOS is an ok OS as of right now, but I know future release will address these issues.
If you want to update to iOS 5, I only recommend it if you have lots of free time on a day and willing to be open for crashes and bugs.

Until next time, Revüsters!