Photo Stream has always been a nice feature, but it's always felt a bit limited, because you can't currently share your Streams with other iOS users. Now all of that is about to change with iOS 6.
Shared Photo Streams will allow you to share you photos on the fly with selected iOS users. This could be a great feature to keep family and friends in touch with what's going on in your life...
Apple just unveiled the new Maps at WWDC in San Francisco, nuking Google Maps out of the orbit. It's got everything a mapping app should have, including turn-by-turn GPS, voice commands and spoken directions, detailed traffic layers and of course that rumored three-dimensional view bound to knock your socks off...
Among the big announcements that were expected is some improvements to FaceTime. During today's WWDC event, Apple senior vice president of iOS Software Scott Forstall announced that FaceTime will finally allow for calls over cellular network.
That means you are no more tied to your wifi network to have a FaceTime conversation with someone...
As expected, Apple has just announced all-new Facebook integration in iOS 6. And the company's iOS VP Scott Forstall is on stage right now going through all of the details.
Just like the Twitter integration added in iOS 5, the new Facebook integration will add system-level support for the social network. This will allow you to upload photos to Facebook and update your status from practically anywhere in iOS...
Siri has received a major update with iOS 6. She can now provide sport scores for the NBA, NFL, etc. She can also tell you batting averages for specified baseball players, and provide arbitrary information like the height differences between basketball players. And this is just the very tip of the iceberg. There's also integration with Rotten Tomatoes to highlight movie reviews, and even watch trailers from within Siri.
Even better is the fact that the iPad is now officially receiving Siri support!
Here we are monitoring the WWDC keynote where Apple's iOS chief SCott Forstall just announced iOS 6, as previously confirmed on WWDC banners. It comes with over 200 new features, including some Siri-ous advancement to Apple's digital secretary which can now tell you sports scores, for example...
The moment that you've all been waiting for is finally here. Apple's big WWDC keynote has started, and the company's fearless CEO Tim Cook has taken the stage.
As usual, Cook's kicking things off by going over some of Apple's sales numbers and other impressive accomplishments from the past couple of months...
Apple's boss Tim Cook is about to take the stage at San Francisco's Moscone West an hour from now to deliver Apple's mobile and desktop strategy for the next twelve months. You're probably on the edge of your seat as we are, wondering what will get announced and whether there will be an "one more thing" moment that will blow your pants off.
More importantly, all eyes are on Apple as the industry awaits to see how Cupertino responds to strong competition in the mobile space. So we just put together this little poll and are asking you, our readers, to pick one WWDC announcement that you're most excited for...
That's it folks, the Apple Store has just gone offline ahead of today's WWDC keynote, which begins in a little bit more than two hours. Are you feeling the excitement yet?
As the big event approaches, possible specs of Apple's new MacBooks have leaked, indicating that MacBook Airs will come with 4GB/8GB RAM flavors and a 512GB SSD option. SSD in these new Airs should use SATA3 and some of them are said to be based on Samsung’s crazy fast 830 series.
New MacBook Pro and Mac Pros are also in the cards and the AirPort Express base station is said to be due for an upgrade as well...
In case you haven't picked up on it yet, tomorrow's a huge day for the Apple community. Not only is it Day One of WWDC, but we're also expecting the company to make a number of big announcements.
As presumed, there won't be a live video stream of tomorrow's media event. And a clip of the keynote won't likely be available until hours after it's over. But never fear, as usual, iDB has you covered...
With iOS 6 being the main theme of tomorrow's keynote, Apple's chief executive Tim Cook, iOS boss Scott Forstall and marketing head honcho Phil Schiller (aka Mini-Me and Dr. No) will likely share stage time to announce the latest in Apple's mobile operating system powering the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Feeling excited yet?
We're also keeping our eyes peeled for the latest iPhone and Apple TV developments and are expecting shiny new commercials (hopefully they do better than latest celebrity adverts), plus the usual dose of Apple's trademark one-liners, superlatives and hyperbolas.
Here's what we're looking forward to, some of the stuff we've been keeping our fingers crossed for and what the rumor-mill predicted would go down tomorrow...
An intriguing post from the folks over at WeiPhone.com, a Chinese tech forum, is making the rounds on the internet this morning. The post claims to contain a list of official download links for iOS 6 beta and other unreleased software.
With WWDC starting tomorrow, we definitely expect to see developer betas released sometime in the next 24 hours (happened with iOS 5 last year). But if these links are legitimate, then we're all in for some big surprises...