Great features the iOS 5 brings to the iPad

It is a much-hyped feature of iOS 5 and it is only for iPad. You can use up to five fingers to tell your device something in shortcuts like – return to home page, move to multitasking bar and to switch between apps. You may be familiar with the multitouch gestures Apple introduced for its Mac OS X 10.7 Lion. Yes, the multitouch gestures of iOS 5 on iPad are almost similar to Mac OS X. You have to place four or five fingers, swipe up to the screen, and swipe left or right to provide the commands to your device in gestures.

It has been a bit tricky to type text on an iPad using your thumbs as we used to do in an iPhone while texting. iPad’s weight and screen size often make it a tough chore for users. It is here that Apple has introduced split keyboard feature for iPad with iOS 5. To spilt the keyboard to two, you just have to place two fingers on both ends and drag into the sides. It is a very simple task. Now you can enjoy typing texts using your thumbs as it is on an iPhone.

A state-of-the-art SMSing feature, iMessage, pioneering cloud computing feature iCloud, great Twitter integration and a revamped Safari browser are the notable features of iOS 5. You will get all these features on your iPad now. You can send SMSs for free of cost to other iDevices, push the data automatically from your iDevices to cloud servers, enjoy matchless web browsing experience and Twitter integration on your iPad also. All these features are highly appraised by the reviewers. Apple introduced these features at its Developers Conference in June 2011.

Notifications, magazine subscribing, and reminder setting become highly smooth things on your iPad as you install iOS 5. The new iOS version has come with a wonderful all-in-one Notification Center. You can find all your phone notifications including SMSs, emails, friend requests and anything on the Notification Center. Newsstand is a classy feature to subscribe easily to all your favorite magazines and periodicals. Reminders is an acute way you can set your life without forgetting many things that are more necessary.

With iOS 5, Apple changes the video content format from 720p to 1080p. Your iPad will now run 1080p video content. It has been one of much-awaited features on an iPad. Thanks to the feature, you can enjoy incredibly great video content. The thing will work greatly on an iPad 5 thanks to its A5 chip, but will be not much good on iPad original. There may be some failures in supporting 1080p video content on the first generation iPad.

The new iOS 5 will considerably boost up the performance of your iPad. JavaScript and overall web performance go superior on an iPad with iOS 5. An iPad 2 will perform better than an iPad original in this regard because it has an advanced A5 processor inside. All your activities on an iPad will get a new vigor as you get iOS 5 installed on it.

It is a method you can wirelessly mirror contents of your iPad and iPhone on a large display. All people in a room can now watch what you have special for them on an HDTV. You will also be able to rotate or zoom in and out the video using your iPhone. Moreover, you can switch to a large display if you are fed up with watching a film or slideshow in the tiny display of your iPhone or iPad.

iOS 5 can turn your iPad into a gaming controller on Apple TV. You can use your tablet as both a controller and an info panel while playing games on Apple TV via Wi-Fi. Gaming becomes more inspiring as you can convert your iPad’s screen to a gaming-controlling unit. Your tablet will work almost like the tablet controller Nintendo unveiled for its new Wii U console at E3 2011.