iOS 5: Game Center
iOS 5: Game Center
Introduced in the previous major Apple iOS update, the source for all your gaming now allows you to download games straight from the Game Center. Additionally, you can add a profile picture to your account, see how many points you've racked up, arrange your friends according to their points stash and get friend and game recommendations all from within the app.
iOS 5: Mail
iOS 5: Mail
A whole host of features will improve dealing with your email correspondence which include dragging email addresses between fields, flagging important messages, notifications when you've forgotten to add a subject line in an email, Hotmail integration and rich text editing support.
iOS 5: Reminders
iOS 5: Reminders
The to-do list feature with support for Outlook and iCloud, iOS 5 will now help to organize your life making sure you are fully stocked up in the freezer with location based integration letting you know about your shopping list when you pull into the supermarket. When you make a change to your to-do list your iPad, iPod Touch or iPhone will be updated automatically.
iOS 5: Safari
iOS 5: Safari
Enhancing browsing capabilities on the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, iOS 5 lets you read pages without the distraction of ads. The Reading List feature lets you save articles for reading later, while the introduction of Tabbed browsing on the iPad means you can keep track of multiple web pages.
iOS 5: Video
iOS 5: Video
Currently Apple tablets only support 720p video playback, so with iOS 5, iPad 2 users will now be able to enjoy higher resolution video which is should make up for the lack of Retina Display. Interestingly the iPad 3 could be set for a Retina Display if details in the iOS 5 SDK are found to be accurate.
