Apple announces iOS 7 at WWDC 2013 Keynote : new look, Siri, multitasking, toggles and more

UPDATED : Not all iOS 7 features will be available at all iDevices especially the older generation. source from GSMArena

Sadly only iPad 2 get the least features which is iTune Radio.

When Apple is ready for the next iOS announcement, I got some feeling that they will do something new and differently in order to stay strong on current competitive market. iOS 7 is the answer for that. New revamped UI and some extra features that ready to rumble against Android and Window Phone. Let's see the new features in iOS 7.

New look

After 6 version on iOS, finally the 7th iOS version revamp a brand new UI. Apple decided to use flat design on both icon and also UI elements. All system icons are redesigned around a standardized grid to unify the look. It also features an animated wallpapers (not a live wallpaper in Android) and there's a dynamic parallax effect between the icons and the wallpaper as you turn and tilt your phone.

To be honest I like this new UI. Flat but simple eventhough it looks cartoonish and colorful. However I might started to miss the sleek and elegance icon UI they used to have.

Multitasking

Finally a real multitask from iOS! Apple claim the new multitask system allows apps to update much more often, while not wasting battery.

I guess now iOS user can brat that their iDevice finally capable to do real works.

Enhanced Siri

New UI which is card-based UI and new services to provide answers to your questions (Twitter, Wikipedia and Bing, take that Google). The new Siri also capable of controlling your iDevice (increase brightness, turn on Bluetooth) and it offers a new lively voice (both female and male) for English, French and German.

New Notification Center

The notification center seem a total revamped and it offer alot info such as birthdays, weather, upcoming events from the calendar, stocks and even some info for tomorrow. Notification center will show up on the lockscreen and once you dismiss a notification, it goes away on the other devices too so you don't have to see the same notification multiple times. Pretty good!

I guess the lock screen notification kinda remind me Android 4.2 widget on lock screen. Maybe it is just me.

Toggles

I am very sure Android user familiar with toggles. To access toggles, just swip up from the bottom of the screen. The toggles able to control screen brightness and the music player, the new AirDrop feature, and AirPlay along with some app shortcuts, including a flashlight toggle.

Something I have been dying waiting for it implement into iOS. I used to hate it alot the time wasting on it when I need turn on my WiFi or data.

New camera UI

As much as I like simplicity, the new camera UI in iOS 7 is totally simple! Clean and nice. The new camera features four modes – regular stills and video, square photos with color effects (hi, Instagram) and panorama.

New Photos Gallery

The photo gallery has new UI too and provided automatic Geo tagging now. It sort your photos based on where and when you took them with automatically putting a title to the album. Zooming out shows new auto-generated albums for multi-day trips and zooming out even further groups the photos in years.

The way they manage the album kinda remind me of my current HTC One, HTC Zoe gallery. The ability to zoom in and out for album sort of like Sony Xperia album.

Updates on Safari

The Safari browser for iOS has new 3D UI for switching tabs and you're no longer limited to only 8 tabs. The browser now features a single smart search filed rather than having two fields - one for URL typing and another one for initiating Google searches. Another features is allowed you swipe from the sides of the screen to go back and forth through your browsing history.

Remind me of Google Chrome in Android LOL

New App Store

Well not visually new but the new app store now allowed automatic apps update and also suggest apps based on your location.

Inspired by Google Play Store and Window Phone anyone?

Facetime

The new facetime now available audio only option.

AirDrop

No NFC? No problem. Got AirDrop! It uses a peer-to-peer Wi-Fi connection to share stuff with other nearby user.

iTunes Radio

The music player get revamped too to iTunes Radio.

Weather

Looking on the weather very quickly remind me of HTC weather. Anyway the new weather allowed yout o check forecast for the next five days. You can check the weather of one location or all of them at once.

iOS 7 is available for the iPhone in beta today (If you're developer). In the Fall, iOS 7 will be available on iPhone 4 and later, iPod touch 5th gen, iPad mini and iPad 2 and later.

So what do you think the new revamped iOS 7? I like the UI alot. Simple and nice. However I still love something more customizeable especially on my main home screen. Alot features in Android finally found in iOS 7 as well. Guess the war will remain competitive and another half year to go before new iPhone and iPad come out to the world.

Stay tune to Discover Your Gadget (Dygadget) for more latest gadget update :)

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Reason why New iPad is trolling

As everyone know, the NEW iPad physically design still same with the iPad 2. If you dont know check out my Dygadget blog for that ;)

Back to reality, the only difference between the New iPad (I wonder why they dowan name it as iPad 3) and iPad 2 is only :

• 9.7-inch Retina Display, 2048 x 1536 pixel with 264ppi.
• A5X processor and quad-core graphics chip.
• 5MP Camera with 1080p HD Video Recording.
• built-in 4G LTE.
• 9.4mm thickness.
• 1.4lbs.
• 10 hours of battery life still. 9 hours on 4G.
• iOS 5.1

Seriously are you impressed with the spec? Same Dual core CPU but Quad Core GPU, mean good for graphic. 5MP camera (same optical built with iPhone 4S) but do u reli shoot with iPad? 4G LTE but Malaysia don't have yet (DiGi will have it first!). 9.4mm thickness and 1.4lbs, more than the new iPad 2. Finally, retina display.

So, how does the New iPad shine to normal user? Let's check the video below ;) A survey done by a hong kong people. Sorry it is in Cantonese and no english subtitle.

Basically they troll those people first by saying there is a new iPad and handed them iPad 2 instead of the New iPad first. Most of the normal user said "Wah! Yea wor the screen clearler! Sharper" And when they unveiled that that's iPad 2, they compare it with iPad 3 and they said the display only slight differences. Not important at all for them.

Of course, if you are hardcore user, you could recognize it on 1st glance. But question is, normal user really hardly differentiate it. What if they kena conned to buy iPad 2 instead of New iPad? since no physical design changes. Maybe they should really go click "About Phone/Tablet" to check that out LOL..

I'll rather go for iPad 2 instead new iPad (or maybe not getting at all LOL). Graphic and screen display, nah not interested. Rather read stuff with my PC and play game with real hardcore console. Trust me, the gaming experience with real console and iPad apps is totally difference.

Finally, the video also proven that, apple has no new revolution. Use back same shit to create another shit.

Dinner with DiGi and Unboxing iPhone 4S

Updated : I decided to use back Android...hahahaha..still love it so much T3T

Still remember my iPhone 4S contest post(click here, here, here and here)? Well I am happy because i actually won it :D together with another blogger, saudara Mohd Syafiq. Check out his cool entries at http://syaimzhebatz.blogspot.com

DiGi very generous wanted to treat us dinner before handed out the iPhone 4S. The dinner take place at Chilis, Mid Valley.

 

* Oldtimer ;) *

It is much pleasure to be able to meet so many cool DiGi staffs. Some casual dinner and chatting goes around before they did the so called "Prize Ceremony".

 

So here we go. iPhone 4S unboxing. Again, i really love Apple presentation and packaging. Simple and nice enough.

 

 

 

 

I am not gonna do review for it since there are tonnes of reliable review out there ;) I am using it now and gave my baby XNeo to my sis now.

Thanks DiGi and Nuffnang again! :D

What it's Like to Own an Apple Product

Found this in lyn forum

haha is so damn true. And it enlighten my stress day. Time to continue work. I know my blogpost recently been very random..no time or interest to attend event..work work work T_T