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Thursday, October 13, 2011

iOS 5 now available

Apple released the iOS 5 and iCloud yesterday. iOS 5 and iCloud were announced by Steve Jobs at the WWDC conference in June 2011.

iOS 5 brings more than 200 new features like Notification Center, iMessage, Newsstand, Reminders, Twitter Integration, Over the air updates and many more.

iCloud which is the new cloud service, is the successor to MobileMe. iCloud is a free service with 5GB storage. With iCloud users will be able to sync their mails, contacts, calendar etc. on configured iOS devices and MacBooks as well. Also users can use Find My iPhone utility to locate their iOS device.

To set up iCloud, users need iOS 5 or Mac OS X Lion with 10.7.2 update.

After creating the Apple ID, visit: iCloud

Developers can now download XCode 4.2 with iOS 5 SDK from here

XCode 4.2 Requiremets: Mac OS X Lion 10.7 or later.

Mac OS X Snow Leopard with iOS membership can download XCode 4.2 with iOS 5 SDK from iOS Dev Center

Sources: NeowinWikipedia (iCloud)

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