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Download iOS 5 – iMessage, iCloud Plus 200 New Featues

Apple has released the latest version of its mobile operating system called iOS 5. The update came today as announced during the Apple event last week. iOS 5 added 200 new features that can be enjoyed by iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch users. These features includes the iMessage, a free text messaging system similiar to BlackBerry Messenger (BBM).

iOS 5 new features

iOS 5 also supports the newly launched online storage and syncing system of Apple devices called the iCloud. With the new iOS 5, Apple is cutting the string between PC and iOS devices.

To update your iOS device, just plug-in your device to your internet-connected PC and on iTunes, go to the device, and on the summary tab, look for the “update” button.

To learn more about the new features of iOS 5, see this article.

iCloud is Now Up and Running

Apple’s cloud storage service called iCloud is now up and running. To set-up, you just need to go to your iOS 5 or Mac OSX Lion settings. Upon checking, iCloud.com is up and running but you have to set-up your device first before you could log-in.

Apple iCloud Service

iCloud is an Apple-owned online storage service for your contents. It was announced during the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) last June 2011. Among the features of iCloud are the following:

Contacts, Calendar and Mail. With iCloud, it is now easier to sync your calendar to all your Apple devices. You can also share your calendar with your family and friends.

App Store™ and iBookstore℠ . With the iCloud, you can now download all your purchased apps and books over-the-air on all you iOS devices, not only on the device you used in purchasing it. You can also view your purchase history.

iCloud Backup . With iCloud Backup, you can automatically and securely back up your iOS device to the cloud over WiFi when you charge your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad device. For busy people who have no time for wired syncing, this will be a great feature.

iCloud Storage. With iCloud, all your documents and files can be stored online and will automatically push changes to the documents on your other devices. For example, when you edit you Keynote presentation on one device, you don’t need to synchronize it with your other devices because iCloud will do it for you automatically. All you need to do is to push the button to allow the changes to take place. This service is free up to 5GB on space.

Photo Stream is an iCloud feature that allows you to automatically synchronize you photos to all you Apple devices over-the-air.

iTunes and iTunes Match. With iTunes in the cloud, all your previously purchased music can now be downloaded to all your devices at no extra cost. And with iTunes Match service, you can now replace your non-iTunes purchased music with that of a 256 kbps AAC DRM-free version if there’s an equivalent music in the iTunes online library of 18Million songs. iTunes Match service starts at $24.99 annual fee.

iOS 5 and iCloud on October 12

At the media event at the Apple campus in California, Apple Inc. made the following announcements:

- iOS 5 will be available for download via iTunes on October 12, 2011.

- iCloud service will start on October 12, 2011

- iTunes Match will be available by the year end on US iCloud subscribers

Apple to Release iPhone 5 Together with iPod Refresh this September

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The latest rumor spreading around the web is that Apple will be releasing the iPhone 5 sometime late August or maybe on September together with the refresh to the line of the iPod products. This speculation was confirmed by two media sources, one is the tech blog Boy Genius Report (BGR) and another one is the news website Bloomberg. Both of these websites claimed to have an exclusive tip from credible sources familiar with the matter.

Yes, every year, tech bloggers and enthusiasts were always excited about what Apple will be releasing especially with regards to their top product, the iPhone segment. For instance, last year, two months prior to the release of iPhone 4, major leaks about the product was published in the internet. The most controversial of them was that of tech blog Gizmodo who obtained an actual prototype of iPhone 4.

This year however, there’s still no such major leak yet but there’s already been numerous information that came out as to what the new iPhone will be. Here’s a brief list of them:

Bigger Display

This has been a recurring topic of rumors that didn’t die in the past several months. And why not? After all, iPhone has already been dwarfed by competing phones of the same segment. Samsung Galaxy S2 had a 4.3-in display compared to just 3.5-in of the iPhone 4. There are also images circulating in the web about an edge-to-edge iPhone 5 display design.

A5 for iPhone 5; More Power for the iPhone

As soon as the new A5 processor that powers iPad 2 was announced last March 2, there’s been speculation that Apple will upgrade the current A4 of iPhone 4 to be an A5 for the iPhone 5.

An 8MP Camera

Rumor also claims that Apple will ramp-up the iPhone cameras from the current 5MP of iPhone 4 to 8MP for iPhone 5. Does this mean that HD video recording will be upgraded from 720p to 1080p? It may or may not, but if it does it should be really attractive. Sony has been rumored to provide the camera for the next-generation iPhone.

4G Support for iPhone 5

Since the iPhone 4 is already available via Verizon since February this year, it may be possible that Apple is working to have the iPhone 5 work in Verizon’s 4G LTE network.

iOS 5 for iPhone 5

This one could be the major reason why the release of iPhone 5 was moved from the traditional month  of June to September. Apple may have wanted to release iPhone 5 powered by iOS 5. During this year’s WWDC, Apple announces the iOS 5 adding new capabilities such as the “revamped notification system” and iMessage plus over two hundred new features and upgrades. Apple will be releasing the iOS 5 this fall coinciding with the rumored schedule of iPhone 5 release.

Rumors and speculations will remain as rumors and speculations until the final product comes out. For now, we’ll  just keep on watching for the next big thing from Apple.

Apple iCloud Service, What is it?

Apple iCloud is a hot news item today as Apple announces it in the 2011 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco CA yesterday. But what does iCloud really do? How does it work?

Apple iCloud Service

Simply put it this way: iCloud is an Apple owned online storage of your contents. Or it can be analogous to an “online iTunes”. Before the iCloud service, we usually buy and store our files in our computer desktops or laptops and then we’ll just synchronize it with our device using iTunes. The problem usually arise when our computer was lost or damaged. If we do not backed-up our files, then it’s a real disaster. Apple’s iCloud service solves this problem by creating a centralized data-center capable of storing our files and backing it up systematically. if in case we lost our device or the computer, we can access all our files using internet connection. With Apple iCloud, the dependency of Apple devices to physical storage systems was dramatically reduced.

What can we do with the iCloud?
If you have experienced using Apple’s previous cloud-based service called MobileMe, then iCloud would be a familiar thing to you. It’s basically an expansion of the MobileMe service. For those who are totally new to iCloud, here are some of the many things you can store on it. And except for few features specifically mentioned below, all of the following services are FREE.

Contacts, Calendar and Mail. With iCloud, it is now easier to sync your calendar to all your Apple devices. You can also share your calendar with your family and friends.

App Store™ and iBookstore℠ . With the iCloud, you can now download all your purchased apps and books over-the-air on all you iOS devices, not only on the device you used in purchasing it. You can also view your purchase history.

iCloud Backup . With iCloud Backup, you can automatically and securely back up your iOS device to the cloud over WiFi when you charge your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad device. For busy people who have no time for wired syncing, this will be a great feature.

iCloud Storage. With iCloud, all your documents and files can be stored online and will automatically push changes to the documents on your other devices. For example, when you edit you Keynote presentation on one device, you don’t need to synchronize it with your other devices because iCloud will do it for you automatically. All you need to do is to push the button to allow the changes to take place. This service is free up to 5GB on space.

Photo Stream is an iCloud feature that allows you to automatically synchronize you photos to all you Apple devices over-the-air.

iTunes and iTunes Match. With iTunes in the cloud, all your previously purchased music can now be downloaded to all your devices at no extra cost. And with iTunes Match service, you can now replace your non-iTunes purchased music with that of a 256 kbps AAC DRM-free version if there’s an equivalent music in the iTunes online library of 18Million songs. iTunes Match service starts at $24.99 annual fee.

Availability

The above mentioned features can now be experienced in BETA mode in the US using iTunes 10.3 and iOS 4.3.3. The full version of iCloud can be used upon the release of iOS 5 this coming fall.

Summary

If we sum up all the things mentioned above, we can simply say that iCloud is Apple’s latest technology in simplifying the use of their products. As you may have already noticed, the most recurring adverb in this article is “automatically” and “simply” denoting the dramatic improvement on the aspect of usability.

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Apple Announces iOS 5, Adds Over 200 New Features

As expected, Apple Inc today unveiled the next version of their mobile operating system, the iOS 5. during the Word Wide developers Conference in San Francisco. The iOS 5 introduces several new Apps including the Notification Center for consolidating all your notifications in one place. This was an excellent answer to the common criticism that Apple iOS notification system can really become distracting.

iOS 5 also features an all-new way of using your iPhone, iPod, and iPads. With iOS 5, Apple is cutting the strings between the PC and your iOS device. They introduced over-the-air syncing and updates so you don’t need to have a wired connection to your PC or Mac. Also, new customers won’t have to connect their device to a computer to use it for the first time.

Also, as expected, Apple made twitter deepky integrated to iOS. You can now see twitter buttons embedded on the Applications such as YouTube and Camera. The iOS 5 will definitely make it easier to share your photos and videos to your twitter friends and followers.

iOS 5 new features

Apple also introduced their new messaging app, the iMessage that will allow iOS product owners send text, photo, and video messages to another iOS user over the 3G or WiFi connection.

Safari was also revamped to make it more faster and more user-friendly. With the new Safari feature called “Reader“, you can view webpages free of ads and other unnecessary clutter. With the safari “Reading List” you can now save pages for future reading. Apple also revamped tabbed browsing. With the new Safari, new tabs can be created without going to another window.

Another exciting new feature is the Newstand App. The app will automatically organize your magazine’ or newspaper subscriptions in one place and will automatically fetch fresh contents for you. It’s like putting the Podcasting capability right into your device.

As mentioned earlier, there over 200 new features in iOS 5 and this post is not enough to cater all of them. Here’s the keynote video of the iOS 5.

Availability

iOS 5 will be available this coming fall to all existing iOS device users around the world.