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A first look at iOS 6 Beta.
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hey everyone this is Michael with culac
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here and today I have a first look for
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you at iOS 6 running on the iPhone 4S
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now this is a beta so it's only
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available to developers uh so most of
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you won't be able to download it but
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here's just a little feature preview uh
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if you want to see what it's like before
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it comes out so first of all you might
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notice a couple different changes here
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uh most notably the maps application uh
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it's been completely redone and it's now
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built on on Apple's own custom mapping
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interface so you can see here we have a
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map and if we pinch to zoom in you can
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tell that it looks a lot different
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already uh there's a lot of changes and
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a lot of yeah the maps basically look
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different because they're no longer
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based on Google Maps so let's go to New
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York for example to see what the new
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maps really look like uh if we switch
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over here to satellite and bring it back
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it'll reload in a new satellite view and
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we can zoom in here and zoom in uh but
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now if we switch over to 3 view which is
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the new view you'll see the new maps in
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3D and this is really actually pretty
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remarkable uh you can see maps just as
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they would look in 3D and this isn't the
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best example here and the connection is
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a little bit slow so it's hard to tell
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uh but you can really pan around here
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looking at something like Apple's
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headquarters here is a little bit more
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remarkable you can really see the detail
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around the buildings and just how
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everything is in 3D and it looks really
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great there's a ton of detail uh and
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it's very nice so that's pretty much the
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maps application now we also have this
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new app called passbook and passbook I
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haven't really set up yet or played with
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around but basically you can store all
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different types of things in your pass
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book so like it says boarding passes
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tickets store cards and coupons uh so it
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doesn't really let you do anything yet
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and there's nothing you can do with the
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application uh so it's not really
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functional at this point but it will be
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in the future and you kind of get an
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idea of what it might be like if you go
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into settings here you can see that uh
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the title bars here are a slightly
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different blue color and the status bar
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is also blue uh so there's some user
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interface tweaks like that that are seen
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around the OS if we happen to Safari
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here we can also see the same thing it's
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slightly different user interface uh now
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there's a also a full screen mode so if
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we switch on a landscape we can hit this
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button here and go full screen now Siri
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has also received some tweaks so now for
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example I can
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say what was the score on the last
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Giants game
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the Giants were vested by the Rangers
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yesterday the final score was 5 to Z so
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something like that you know it's just a
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lot of different tweaks with Siri and
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I'll have another video coming up soon
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that'll have more in-depth look at Siri
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and also with it on the iPad so that's
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the kind of the tweaks of Siri there's
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also Facebook integration so what I'm
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going to do here quick is take a quick
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snapshot with the camera app here and
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you can see the camera interface has
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been redesigned as well and now if I go
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into
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photos I'm going to go into the camera
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roll and select here and now you'll see
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this new sharing menu and I'll hit
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Facebook and what I'll be able to do
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from here is log into Facebook and I'm
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not going to do that at this point but I
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can log into Facebook and share it from
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there and you can see how the menu would
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look Photo Stream can also be shared now
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so if I hit the share button once again
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and I select Photo Stream you can see
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that I can share this photo stream with
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somebody and I can make this a public
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website and I can put in a name like
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that and I can share the photo stream
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weather is also been redesigned you can
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see it looks slightly different now it's
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a little bit cleaner and the interface
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is a little bit nicer Game Center has
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also been slightly changed around a
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little bit it looks a little bit
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different you have a couple more tabs
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down here uh not only do you have
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friends in games now you also have
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challenges I don't have any challenges
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set up I haven't really quite looked
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into that yet uh but you'll be able to
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do challenges uh between different
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players another new thing apple is
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toting is redesigns to the App Store as
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well as the iTunes Store so if we go
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into App Store here you can see that
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there's a black user interface now it
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looks looks a little bit different uh
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the content is m mostly the same uh but
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things
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like things like the title bar and the
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navigation is slightly changed around
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and you can see that it has a new black
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interface another thing I noticed within
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the phone app the dialer is different
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it's now white so just a little tweak
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but something interesting mail now has
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this VIP feature and if I go into here I
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can add a VIP now unfortunately if I
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show you how that process works I'll
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have to reveal all my contacts so I'm
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not going to show you that but basically
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you just select items from your contacts
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list to make VIPs uh so that you can
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identify important people the music app
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now looks a lot like it does in the iPad
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with that white user interface a lot of
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people don't necessarily like it but it
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does look a little bit nicer in my
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opinion and it's something different
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from the stock interface we've always
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seen songs also look a little bit
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different you have a new volume slider
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down here and the pause and fast forward
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skip controls are a little bit different
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uh the album art is still in the same
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place but everything looks a little bit
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cleaner a little bit different you can
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also do airPlay from here as well as
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write songs just like you normally would
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be able to there's also a couple new
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features that I really can't show you
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here mainly FaceTime over 3G as well as
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a couple of different enhancements to
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the phone app and I can't really show
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you cuz I don't have a person that I can
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call right off hand or FaceTime uh that
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I can show you these new features with
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but if you go to Apple's website you can
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look at some of the screenshots they
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have there and kind of get an idea of
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what the new features are another thing
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I forgot to mention in Safari is that
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there's iCloud tabs now so if I go into
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here and and I select iCloud tabs I can
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see all the tabs I have open on my iMac
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and when I do open a new tab it takes a
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little while uh but it does show up
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after a few seconds once you're open up
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the tab on the computer and you'll see
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it as well show up on the iPhone that
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you can open up the tab from there too
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so if I just close Safari and I go back
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into it and I go under iCloud tabs you
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can see here now that iCloud has popped
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up that I have that open as well there's
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also some increased accessibility
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features so if I go into settings here
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and I go under General and accessibility
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I have some more support for hearing
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aids as well as guided access there's a
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lot of stuff here and I'll take a
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separate video to go through all of this
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uh but for right now you can just see
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there's a ton of new features if I turn
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on guided access there's a lot of stuff
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I can do here I can
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restrict parts of the screen I can
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enable screen sleep setting passcode all
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different kinds of stuff I'll have a
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separate video dedicated just to that so
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that's about all that I've
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just for right now but if you see
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anything that I missed or anything like
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that make sure to leave a comment about
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it this is just kind of a first look at
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iOS 6 beta this is Michael with camac
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thank you for watching
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