Check Out These 10 Cool Things That Have Been Added In iOS 5 Beta 2 [Feature]

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MobileMe Mail Archiving, Better Gmail Support

MobileMe and Gmail customers can now directly archive emails from the Mail.app. [via App Advice]

Native Mobile Safari Momentum Scrolling

Now web pages and apps using a simple CSS3 element will gain native momentum scrolling. [via Johan Brook]

Real-Time App Syncing Progress

This is a small one, but as part of the iOS 5 tweaks that allow you to use your iDevice during iTunes Syncing, you can now view apps being installed in real-time while they are being synced to your device through iTunes, similarly to if you had downloaded the app to your device directly. [via App Advice]

International Assistance

If you’ve got an American iPhone and have roamed with it overseas, it’ll automatically make your dialed contact numbers internationally friendly by appending a +1 before each domestic number. It’s possible that Apple will leverage the iPhone’s GPS abilities to do this for other countries as well.

iCloud Icon Has Been Changed

In Beta 1 it was purple. Now it’s the brushed steel we’ve seen in all the official documentation. In addition, iCloud is now the default choice for setting up a new email account, with MobileMe pushed all the way to the bottom.

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