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: Neowin, Wikipedia (iCloud)

Apple reveals the iPhone 4S

Today Apple announced some of the important product updates at its Let's Talk iPhone conference. Some of the new product upgrades include iPod nano and iPod touch.

Apple also announced that iOS 5 will be launched on October 12th.

The most anticipated update was iPhone. Apple announced the next version of iPhone - iPhone 4S

Some of the features of iPhone 4S are:

1. Apple A5 chip

2. Download speed up to 14.4Mbps which twice as fast as iPhone 4's 7.2Mbps

3. 8 Megapixel camera with 1080p HD video recording.

4. New voice recognition feature: Siri

5. available in both GSM and CDMA.

6. Maximum storage up to 64GB.

Good news for iPhone 3GS users (including me) is that Apple will still provide support for iPhone 3GS 8GB along with iOS 5.

iPhone 4 is priced as follows (with Two Year Contract):

16GB        $199
32GB        $299
64GB        $399

iPhone 4S will be shipped from October 14th with pre-orders starting from October 7th.

On October 28th, it'll be shipped in 22 more countries and 70 countries by the end of the year.

Courtesy: Engadget