I am in LOVE with the new iOS 5 update. Loving the look and feel, the
iMessaging and iCloud features. Have you noticed that when you start messaging,
it automatically detects if the person you are messaging too is also on iOS 5
and automatically converts it into iMessage? And have you noticed differences
in color, regular text messages in green and iMessages in blue? Oooh!! And the
read receipts? I could go on and on. I also love the fact that I have the
option to turn off read receipt for myself to protect my privacy.
iCloud is great … or so I thought. Just to know that the contents of my
phone will be secure even if my computer crashes felt great. I feel this
feature has better utility if you possess an iPad and iPod as well. Well, I do
have an old iPod, but I haven’t synced that to iTunes in years. And I do not
possess and iPad. But this feature is actually tempting me to purchase an iPad.
Hee, hee …
Oh, and yesterday, when my phone was almost slipping off my fingers, I
accidentally found out that if you slide your finger from top to bottom of the
screen very fast, a shutter slides down which gives a snapshot of all unread
notifications from every app I have on my phone. That was it, the last straw
which made me go head-over-heels. WOW!!
However, when iCloud chewed up 80% of my monthly data plan, it drove me
mad. In settings, it says that iCloud automatically backs when iPhone is
plugged in, locked and connected to Wi-Fi. Well, that claim is bogus. It keeps
backing up over 3G, leave alone Wi-Fi, even when the phone is not plugged in.
this is ridiculous and a flaw in design. Apple got to fix this somehow;
otherwise I do not feel the iCloud idea will fly too far.
