iOS5 came out at 1AM last night so the first thing I did this morning was to upgrade my OS. The whole process took a lot longer than I thought it would and caused a few problems at first but after all that was over with… taadaaa I had the new OS. If you want to learn more about what it does, watch this video.
Now Apple says there are 200 new features with the new iOS 5. Well technically that’s true but there are only some new 5-7 features or so that I think will make a real difference. One of them is that whenever you get an SMS or a WhatsAPP message or anything, the annoying pop-up that interrupts whatever you’re doing is taken away. Instead it’s just put in a notifications tab just like how the Android or Blackberry does it. If you have a BB just like me too, you probably wouldn’t feel the huge difference there because you’ve been having a notifications tab on the BB for years now. But if you’re a pure iPhone user then yes… it’s a huugeee difference.
Many of the features that the iOS5 is something that the Android and/or Blackberry already has had for a while but it’s still great to finally have them on the iPhone. There are some other stuff the Android has that I wish the new iOS has like having the Twitter/Facebook feed on the home page or dashboard but I guess some people like the iPhone interface the way it is.
Go plug in your iPhone 3Gs/4 to iTunes today to update it. It’s a definitely an improvement you wanna have!
Timothy Tiah – Co-Founder of Colony, Kuala Lumpur Co-Working Space