As discovered by 9to5Mac, Apple’s iOS 5 includes a feature that will allow iDevices to display earthquake warning notification to users. This warning will be delivered to iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad users from seconds to one or two minutes before the earthquake hits their city. Japan has one of the most advanced earthquake warning system in the World, and this feature in iOS 5 will take information that warning system and inform the user about the incoming earthquake so that he or she could move to a safer place.
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A new feature found in iOS 5 beta 3 by TiPB is that Airplay is now activated for FaceTime video calls too, that means you can now stream your FaceTime calls to your Apple TV with touch of a button.
The ability to easily start a video call and beam it onto the big screen is compelling. Whether it’s grandpa and grandma, or the team in England, it takes FaceTime from a small, personal experience to a big, group experience at the touch of a button.
This feature definitely takes FaceTime to the next level, we really hope that Apple includes this in the final version of iOS 5.
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Apple released iOS 5 beta 3 yesterday, and it adds some new features to Apple’s mobile operating system. iOS 5 beta 3 brings an on-screen control panel that can be accessed (if activated from the settings.app) by swiping a finger from any corner of the screen. This control panel features four buttons called Gestures, Device, Favorites, and Home – that are capable of replacing the hardware buttons of your device.
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Apple has just released the third beta of iOS 5 to developers. This beta is only available to developers and only runs on devices with registered UDID’s. Build number for this release is 9A5259f. Apple has also released iTunes 10.5 beta 3, Xcode 4.2 Developer Preview 3, and Xcode 4.1 GM for Lion. iOS 5 Beta 3 is compatible with iPhone 4 (CDMA and GSM both), iPhone 3GS, iPad 1, iPad 2, iPod touch 3rd gen, and iPod touch 4th gen. Registered devs can now download iOS 5 beta 3 from Dev Center.
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iOS 5 is out from many days now and there are plenty of videos on Youtube uploaded by devs who got their hands on the beta version. Here we have handpicked five of the best videos that we think nicely demonstrated the new features introduced in iOS 5. So if you have not seen iOS 5 beta in action yet, here it is.
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Apple dropped iOS 5 beta 2 for developers yesterday. As expected, the beta 2 of iOS 5 brings several changes to iOS 5 that was officially released on 6th June. Although the changes in this release aren’t that big, but this beta reveals that Apple is still working on the look and feel of the newly introduced and revamped features of iOS. This is the second beta of iOS 5 and it is expected that Apple might drop a few more before the official public release scheduled for the fall. Read more to check what’s changed in iOS 5 beta 2.
It is not as big as other features introduced in iOS 5 but it is nice to have it. Apple has added an option for users to change the ‘New Email’ tone on their iOS devices. They have given users the ability to change the tone for ‘Sent Mail’ as well. Previously their was only one stock tone that was unchangeable. But now with the traditional new mail tone, users are given 6 more tones to choose from for their new mail sound. They are also given a choice to turn off the new mail tone by selecting the ‘None’ option.
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Apple wants to provide good experience to its users and to do that it tries to do as many things itself as it can without relying on third party developers. In this huge iOS 5 update, Apple has introduced many awesome features that are built right into the operating system so users don’t have to download different applications to fulfill their basic needs. Here we have listed a few of many apps that have been affected by iOS 5’s new features.
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iOS 5 undoubtedly is the biggest update to iOS that brings so many features to the operating system. Another feature Apple brought in iOS 5 is that it now enables home screen web apps to take full advantage of Nitro Javascript found in Mobile Safari. It has turned out that it was an error that prevented home screen web apps to take advantage of Nitro Javascript in Safari that was introduced in iOS 4.3.
This is probably breaking my NDA to say this, but yes, they did. Web.app now has the “dynamic-codesigning” entitlement, which enables Nitro. (Source)
Now when iOS 5 becomes available in the fall, your home screen web apps will be able to take full advantage of Nitro Javascript…Nice
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Apple has built in a very nice dictionary right into iOS 5, although it is super useful when reading an article or text but right now you cannot use it as a full fledged dictionary to check the meaning of the words that you find somewhere else. But there’s a way you can use the built-in dictionary for your personal uses if you don’t have a dictionary app installed on your device. Follow the simple steps to use your iPhone’s dictionary for your own words.
