Rather than having to deal with complicated layouts of various Web sites, the reader streamlines multipage articles in a RSS-like view while stripping out ads, but leaving photos. You also can e-mail the entire text of a Safari page to a contact under iOS 4, you could send only a link. The Reader option is fantastic for reading strangely formatted Web pages, giving you a clear and iOS optimized layout for reading articles. We think people will be especially happy to finally get away from reading Web sites meant for a desktop computer, when there is no mobile option available.
Our only problem with the Reader is that it may strip out too much--we often want to see comments on an article, but the Reader deems them unnecessary. In other Safari news, tabbed browsing is now available on the iPad and you can add a Web page to a Reading List list for future perusal on any iOS device. The latter feature keeps a story on your reading list until you have time to read it, and it can be synced between multiple Safari devices.
Reminders This handy addition lets you store multiple to-do lists with dates for each event; you can categorize reminders by GPS location. So, for example, if you have a reminder of "Call home when I leave work," the app will use GPS to note when you're on the move and send the reminder via push notification. The app has its own sleek-looking scrollable calendar as well, so you can browse or add new tasks and reminders for future dates.
We tested the reminder by location by having it tell us "Don't forget your iPad" once we left the building here at CNET. Sure enough, the iPhone reminded us once we got about a half block away from the building. You also can have it remind you to do something when you arrive at a location, like "Call Mom when I get home. Browsing through your reminders is easy with a starting page where you can quickly track and search for reminders using a search field.
You also have the option to create tasks for more-open-ended reminders that don't need to be done by a specific time. We think Apple did an admirable job with this app, but we think many of the plethora of to-do apps at the iTunes App Store offer more options. For simple reminders and tasks, however, the Reminders app will probably be enough for most users.
Camera iOS 5 adds several requested features to the camera app, making it much more like a point-and-shoot camera. You get a shortcut on the lock screen that will launch the camera immediately, even bypassing the lock code. A simple double-tap of the Home button brings up both the basic music controls as before and the camera icon in the lower right. You then can use the volume control to snap a photo. The picture is saved to your camera roll, but for security having not used your access code you'll only be able to delete the shot keeping unwanted users from browsing your iPhone photos.
Inside the camera you'll get grid lines, pinch to zoom in addition to a slider bar at the bottom of the screen , autofocus, and the ability to change the exposure. After taking photos, you can edit your shots with crop, rotate, red-eye reduction, and a single-tap color correction option. The cropping features let you crop your images with a resizable box, or you can constrain the aspect ratio to keep a standard size.
Rotate options let you spin an image in degree increments so you won't have to worry about sideways photos. Red-eye reduction is a simple process that has you select the red-eye tool, then tap the red eyes of your subject for instantaneous and impressive results.
The single-tap color correction tool balances your colors and, in our tests, did indeed make the image look better. Though we welcome these additions, Apple is way too late to the photo-editing party, as this functionality has existed on basic phones for years. Also, while we like the basic editing features, we doubt it will mean the demise of third-party apps like Photoshop Express. Also, you now can search within the body of a message instead of just in the From, To, and subject lines.
Mail for iOS has needed many of these features for a long time, so it's good that we finally have them. Flagging e-mails as important will certainly help the business crowd. The selection tool when you double-tap a word and drag selection anchors is still a little awkward to use--especially for large blocks of text, and it's important to note that you'll need to select text to apply any rich text formatting bold, italics, or underline options once selected.
Still these are needed steps forward for the Mail app, and users will appreciate the changes. With iOS 5 we still stumbled upon the occasional e-mail with its own special formatting that the app didn't adjust to make eyeball-friendly on the smaller screen. Considering how much e-mail reading people do on their iOS devices, this would be a welcome addition. So as on Android, Windows Phone 7, and BlackBerry OS 5 devices, you'll no longer have to plug your device into a computer or even own a computer at all.
The updates will serve only the changes, so they'll be shorter, and you'll be able to sync, back up, and restore your device using the new iCloud features.
You'll also find new features within apps, like wirelessly editing photos, managing e-mail folders, and creating and deleting calenders. To sync your iOS device to iTunes on your computer, you need only be on the same Wi-Fi network and your device needs to be charging plugged into a charger.
From there you can select Sync Now on your iPhone and your photos, music, and calendars will be backed up in iTunes. While not pretty or particularly novel especially with so many other smartphones offering the same features , over-the-air updates might be the most important of all for iOS in this update.
We've heard many stories of users complaining about sync times, and not having your phone tethered to your computer for long periods will be appreciated by all. We'll add more details about iCloud as we use explore it further. Game Center Additions for gamers in iOS 5 include the addition of profile photos, the ability to compare achievement points, friends of friends lists, recommended friends and games, support for turn-based games, and a way to buy games directly from Game Center. We like the added personal touch of adding a photograph to our profile in Game Center, but we think people should have more fun options for page customization it is "Game" Center, after all.
Game recommendations based on your current library seem pretty solid, but we did find a few games in the list we had previously deleted. The ability to buy games from within Game Center makes it a bit more of a destination, but it still seems like the service will still be a behind-the-scenes social connector as it was in iOS 4.
As with BlackBerry Messenger BBM , you'll be able to exchange unlimited text messages, photos, and videos with your friends, family, and colleagues. Description: A script injection issue existed in Calendar's handling of invitation notes. This issue is addressed through improved escaping of special characters in invitation notes. This issues does not affect devices prior to iOS 4. Description: A user's AppleID password and username were logged to a file that was readable by applications on the system.
This is resolved by no longer logging these credentials. Impact: Visiting a maliciously crafted website may lead to the disclosure of sensitive information. Impact: Viewing a maliciously crafted website or e-mail message may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution. Description: A memory corruption issue existed in CoreFoundation's handling of string tokenization. Impact: Viewing a document containing a maliciously crafted font may lead to arbitrary code execution.
Description: Multiple memory corruption existed in freetype, the most serious of which may lead to arbitrary code execution when processing a maliciously crafted font. Impact: Visiting a maliciously crafted website may lead to the disclosure of video data from another site.
Description: A cross-origin issue existed in CoreMedia's handling of cross-site redirects. This issue is addressed through improved origin tracking. Impact: An exchange mail cookie management issue could incorrectly cause data synchronization across different accounts.
Description: When multiple mail exchange accounts are configured which connect to the same server, a session could potentially receive a valid cookie corresponding to a different account. This issue is addressed by ensuring that cookies are separated across different accounts. Impact: An attacker with a privileged network position may intercept user credentials or other sensitive information. Description: Fraudulent certificates were issued by multiple certificate authorities operated by DigiNotar.
This issue is addressed by removing DigiNotar from the list of trusted root certificates, from the list of Extended Validation EV certificate authorities, and by configuring default system trust settings so that DigiNotar's certificates, including those issued by other authorities, are not trusted.
Impact: Support for X. This algorithm has known cryptographic weaknesses. Further research or a misconfigured certificate authority could have allowed the creation of X. This would have exposed X. This update disables support for an X. These versions are subject to a protocol weakness when using block ciphers.
A man-in-the-middle attacker could have injected invalid data, causing the connection to close but revealing some information about the previous data. If the same connection was attempted repeatedly the attacker may eventually have been able to decrypt the data being sent, such as a password.
It brings revamped notifications and more than new features for your iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. These are the top ten, and then some more. Some of these features you already had in your iPhone or iPad. They just came in third-party apps. If you used apps like the must-have WhatsApp, which allows you to message in an extremely easy way with all kinds of phones for free, you already were enjoying something like iMessage even while iMessage adds important services, like device-wide conversation synchronization.
If you had the awesome Instapaper, you already had some of the features of the new Safari. Or if you had something like Remember the Milk, you already had a great reminders service.
However, there are features that weren't available before; either because they are completely new or because they are system-wide. And there are real jewels too. Your iDevices are now completely autonomous. All these features put iOS on par again with some of the features that you could already find in Android, Palm or Windows Phone 7.
Some of their implementations, surpass those platforms. But even while none of these new features are extraordinary per se, all of them together are quite impressive. Relax and be free from anxiety Take back good sleep and help alleviate pain. The first big feature is notifications. At last, Apple will get rid of the annoying popups that break your flow. They have replaced those with a new app called Notification Center.
It's very similar to Mobile Notifier, the iOS notification app—which makes sense, since Apple hired its developer a while back. It not only includes app notification, but mini-widgets that show live information from apps like Weather and apps.
The notifications extend to the lock screen too, so you can see more stuff right away without unlocking your phone. Sliding your finger on it will automatically lead you to the app that generated that notification.
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