The iPhone 5 is the thinnest, lightest iPhone ever, but the iPod touch 5 is almost 2-dimensional. Everything comes at a price, however, and so while the iPod touch 5 is even thinner and lighter than the iPhone 5, it doesn't have anywhere near as good internals. If you don't care about that, however, if all you want to do is scratch the surface and find more surface, then here's how the iPod touch 5 compares to the iPhone 5 is close up. And for good measure, we'll throw in some iPod touch 4 and iPod touch 3 action as well.
A newly discovered timestamp security bug may leave your iOS device photos exposed regardless of whether or not your device is passcode locked. Ade Barkah, a Canadian tech consultant, has figured out that changing the time on your device will leave any photo taken in the "future" accessible via the quick camera toggle on the home screen.
There's bound to be something new in iOS 5 beta 3, a new icon, a new screen, a new setting... something that shows what Apple has been up to. Already the internet and our inboxes are filling up. A lot of it is, frankly, stuff we think we've seen before in previous betas, but some of it looks new to us as well.
New location services opt-in/opt-out splash screen on setup
Settings control for system-level location services (similar to what was previously available for App Store apps)
Settings control to toggle status bar icon for location services on/off
New iTunes Wi-Fi sync splash screen
New icon for Reminders
Some new stuff with tones (not sure about it yet)Text tones can be set from iTunes ringtones
We're going to collect it here, in this gallery. If you find anything we haven't come across yet, let us know.
For some strange reason, our tip box is now overflowing with 960x640 screenshots (what, no iPad love?) showing a few changes from today's iOS 5 beta 2 release. Among the more interesting ones:
Welcome screen now has an info button to give you your UDID number, should you have failed to record it previously (Thanks Apple!)
The iCloud icon in settings is no longer purple. Long live brush metal cone fill!
Lock screen notifications get a new, single pop up. You can pull down the full list if you like, and if you get multiple notifications, they start to stack again like they did previously.
Wi-Fi sync in now working, but you need to be connected to a power source.
iCloud has bumped Exchange from the top spot in mail account setup, while MobileMe has been condemned to the bottom.
We'll update as we receive more. Screenshots after the break!
You're flooding us with screen shots of iOS 5 (sometimes without removing your personal info first -- please do that!), and we're going to keep adding them here. Here's some of what we're seeing:
iPod app is dead. Long live Music and Video apps. (More consistent with iPad, iPod touch.)
Tap and hold a lock screen notification icon, then slide to view it
If you hate the new style notifications, you can turn them off or switch back to the old popups
You can update more than one app at once
The square toggle sliders are round now
There's a "buy more storage" button in iCloud
There's a wireless iTunes sync setting
Calendar now has week view in landscape mode
Move Camera Roll photos to existing albums or create new ones
Add multiple Twitter accounts in Settings
Storage usage by app
On-device software updates
Open Safari links in background
SMS/iMessage are the same app, sends depending on what receiver can handle (AT&T/Verizon must hate that)
Photo gallery after the break, and we'll update if/when we're sent more.
And here's the white iPhone 4 gallery, also 10 months in the making. We've got it side-by-side with the black iPhone 4, focusing on whatever little details and differences we could find. There looks to be an almost translucent edging around every seem. The proximity sensor is white-free, and while my black iPhone 4 (bought back in July) shows no sign of it, my white iPhone 4 has bright, visible light coming out of the 3.5mm headphone jack.
Check it all out in full on gallery glory after the break!
Update: Added white iPhone 4 vs. white iPhone 3GS pics
If you waited in line today and picked one up - congrats! If you are wondering what we think of Apple's latest, here's the short version: it's a thinner, lighter, faster iPad with a couple of cameras. That may sound anti-climactic - but after using the iPad 2 for just a very short while we're starting to suspect that it's anti-climactic in the same way that "the iPad is just a big iPhone" was anti-climactic in 2010. In other words: it's an experience that can't quite be quantified but gets under your skin in the same way the original iPad did. There's "nothing new" here to most people, but the execution of all the little details adds up to something pretty special.
As far as the hardware is concerned, we're impressed. Looking at the spec differences between the iPad 1 and the iPad 2, you might be tempted to say that there's not much improvement here. But .5" vs .34" only tells part of the story. The full story is that the tapered back of the iPad 2 makes it feel thinner than any device this size has a right to be. It's kind of amazing. Unfortunately, we can't quite say the same for the weight - while the iPad 2 is lighter, it's still not something you're going to happily hold at arm's length unsupported for any appreciable length of time.
A full photo gallery is after the break and video is coming right quick - keep it locked to TiPb as we unpack our thoughts and impressions of the iPad 2 this weekend and, heck, for the months to come.
