iPhone 5 operating system and software
The iPhone 5 uses iOS (previously âiPhone OSâ), a mobile operating system (âmobile OSâ) developed and distributed by Apple Inc. The user interface, the industrial design field of human-machine interactionâthe space where interaction between humans and machine occursâof iOS is based in the concept of direct manipulation; in computer science, is a human-computer interaction style which involves continuous representation of objects of interest and rapid, reversible, and incremental actions and feedback. It uses multi-touch gestures, or standardized motion used to interact with multitouch devices. Interface control elements consist of sliders, switches, and buttons. Interaction with the OS includes gestures such as âswipe,â âtap,â âpinch,â and âreverse pinchâ all of which have specific definitions within  the context of the iOS operating system and its multi-touch interface. Internal accelerometers, or devices that measure proper acceleration are used by some applications to respond to shaking the device (one common result of the undo command) or rotating it vertically (one common result is switching from portrait to landscape mode).
 The iPhone 5 is shipped with iOS 6 (released in September 19, 2012). Many of the iPhone 5â features that work specifically with the included new iOS 6.0 operating system, will only work in certain territories on release. Apple has said this is a rolling program, which will take longer to implement across more regions.
The phone can act as a hotspot, a site that offers Internet access over a wireless local area network through the use of a router connected to a link to an Internet service provider; sharing its internet connection over WiFi, Bluetooth, or USB. It also accesses the Apple App Store, a online/digital application distribution platform for iOS developed and maintained by Apple Inc.ââapplication software,â also known as an âapplicationâ or an âapp,â is computer software designed to help the user to perform specific tasks; while âdigital distributionâ (also called âcontent delivery,â online distribution,â or âelectronic software distributionâ (âESDâ), among others) describes the delivery of media content such as audio, video, software and video games, without the use of physical media usually over online delivery mediums, such as the Internet. The service allows users to browse and download mobile applications (âmobile appsâ), or software applications designed run on smartphones, tablet computers and other mobile devices, from the iTunes Store, originally the âiTunes Music Store,â a software-based online digital media store operated by Apple Inc., that were developed by Xcode, an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) containing a suite of software development tools developed by Apple for developing software for OS X and iOS; and the iOS SDK (âSoftware Development Kitâ) (formerly âiPhone SDKâ), a software development kit developed by Apple Inc, released in February 2008 to develop native applications for iOS.
The iPhone 5 can play music, movies , television shows, ebooks, audiobooks, and podcasts (types of digital media consisting of an episodic series of audio radio, video, PDF, or ePub files subscribed to and downloaded through web syndication or streamed online to a computer or mobile device) and can sort its media library by songs, artists, albums, videos, playlists (generally, lists of songs), genres (the term for any category of literature or other forms of art or entertainment, e.g. music, whether written or spoken, audio or visual, based on some set of stylistic criteria), composers, podcasts, audiobooks, and compilation albums (music or spoken; featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources, such as studio albums, live albums, singles, demos and outtakes). Options are laways alphabetically, except in playlists, which retain their order from iTunes. Users can rotate their device horizontally to landscape mode to access Cover Flow, an animated, three dimensional graphical user interface that is integrated within the Macintosh Finder and other Apple Inc. products for visually flipping through snapshots of documents, website bookmarks, album artwork, or photographs. Like on iTunes, this feature shows the different album covers in a scroll-through photo library. Scrolling is achieved by swiping a finger across the screen. Alternatively, headset controls can be used to pause, lay, sip, and repeat tracks. On the 5, the volume can be changed with the included Apple Earphones, and the Voice Control feature can be used to identify a track, play songs in a playlist or by a specific artist, or create a Genius playlist, which automatically generates a playlist of songs from the userâs library which are similar to the selected song, introduced in iTunes 8.
Like the iPhone 4S, the iPhone 5 has Siri, an intelligent personal assistant and knowledge navigator which works as an application for Appleâs iOS that allows the user to operate the iPhone by spoken commands. For example, âWhat is the weather going to be like?â will generate a spoken response like âThe weather is to be cloudy and rainy and drop to 54 degrees today.â For usability reasons, third-party applications cannot currently respond to voice commands. The commands given do not have to be formulated using rigidly determined wording; natural language can be usedâânatural language processingâ (âNLPâ) is a field of computers science, artificial intelligence, and linguistics concerned with the interactions between computers and human (natural) languages. Siri is accessed by holding down the home button rather than tapping it. The software was improved in iOS 6 to include the ability to make restaurant reservations, launch apps, dictate Facebook or Twitter updates, retrieve movie reviews and detailed sports statistics.
On the iPhone 5, texting, or âtext messaging,â the act of typing and sending a brief, electronic message between two or more mobile phones or fixed or portable devices over a phone network, can be aided by the voice assistant, which converts speech to text. In addition to regular texting, messaging on the iPhone 5 supports iMessage, an instant messenger service developed by Apple Inc. for iOS and OS X Mountain Lion, a specialized instant messaging program and service that allows unlimited texting to other messages, integration with the deviceâs voice-controlled software assistant, and read acknowledgements for sent messages. Input to the device comes from a keyboard displayed on the multi-touch screen comes from a keyboard displayed on the multi-touch screen or by voice to text by speaking into the microphone. Entered text is supported by predictive and suggestion software; there is a multi-language spell-checker which recognizes many regional accents of different languages.
Appleâs built-in Maps app, a mapping service application developed by Apple Inc. for its iOS mobile operating system, which replaced the former Maps app powered by Google Maps, has been universally derided and lacks many features present in competing maps apps. It is also known to give inaccurate directions. It uses Appleâs new vector-based engine that eliminates lag, a common word meaning to fail to keep up or to fall behind, making for smoother zoomingââzooming user interfaceâ or âzoomable user interfaceâ (âZUI,â pronounced zoo-ee), which in computing is a graphical environment where users can change the scale of the viewed area in order to see more detail or less, and browse through different documents. New to Maps is turn-by-turn navigation, a feature of some GPS navigation devices where directions for a selected route are continually presented to the user in the form of spoken and visual instructions, 3D views in some major cities and real-time traffic. Turn-by-turn navigation is only available for iPhone 4S, or later and iPad 2, the second generation iPad, a tablet computer designed, developed and marketed by Apple Inc., or later with cellular capability, while 3D views are only available for iPhone 4S or later, iPod touch (colloquially âiTouchâ) 5th generation, a portable media player, personal digital assistant, handheld game console, and email-capable Wi-Fi mobile device designed and marketed by Apple Inc., and iPad 2 or later.
iOS 6 is able to retrieve documents such as: boarding passes, or documents provided by an airline during check-in, giving a passenger permission to board the airplane for a particular flight; admission tickets, or vouchers that indicates that one has paid for admission to an event or establishment such as theatre, movie theater, amusement park, zoo, museum stadium, concert, or another attraction, or permission to travel on a vehicle such as an airliner, trains, bus or boat, typically because one has paid the fare; coupons, which in marketing, are tickets or documents that can be exchanged for a financial discount or rebate when purchasing a product; and loyalty cards/programs, or structured marketing efforts that reward, and therefore encourage, loyal buying behaviorâbehavior which is potentially beneficial to the firmâthrough its new Passbook app, an application in iOS that allows users to store coupons, boarding passes, event tickets, store cards, âgenericâ cards and other forms of mobile payment. An iOS device with Passbook can be scanned under a barcode reader/scanner, an electronic device for reading printed barcodes, to process a mobile payment, also referred to as mobile money, mobile money transfer, and mobile wallet, which generally regard to payment.services under financial regulation and performed from or via a mobile device, at locations that have compatible hardware. The app has context-aware features such as notifications for relevant coupons when in the immediate vicinity of a given store.
Facebook comes integrated through Appleâs native apps with iOS 6. Facebook features can be directly accessed from within native apps such as Calendar which can sync Facebook events, or use Facebookâs like button/option (ârecommended buttonâ), a feature on communication software such as social networking services, Internet forums, new websites and blogs where the user can express that he/she likes, enjoys or supports certain content, from within the Apple App Store.
New privacy settings are available to the user. In addition to the location services, the following have been added in iOS 6: photos (already partially restricted in iOS 5); contacts (address book); calendars; reminders; bluetooth sharing, a wireless technology standard for exchanging data over short distances (using short-wavelength radio transmissions in the ISm band from 2400-2480 MHz) from fixed and mobile devices, creating personal area networks (PANs) with high level of security; Twitter, an online social networking service and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based messages of up to 140 characters, known as âtweetsâ; Facebook, a social networking service launched in February 2004, owned and operated by Facebook, Inc; and Sina Weibo, a Chinese microblogging (weibo) website. iOs 6 also comes with a âlimit ad trackingâ user control in the general settings menu to allow users the option to prevent targeted advertising, a tupe fop advertising whereby advertisement are placed so as to reach consumers based on various traits such as demographics, psychographics, behavioral variables (such as product purchase history), and demographic variables ⌠or other second-order activities which serve as a proxy for these consumer traits. Appleâs Advertising Identifier replaces the companyâs existing Unique Device Identification (UDID) System, intended to assign a unique identifier to medical devices within the United States. Online âadvertising networksâ or âad networks,â or companies that connect advertisers to web sites that want to host advertisements, which is not yet using Appleâ Advertising Identifier device identifier (âIDsâ) standard, or in computer science, is a lexical token that names entities, would not be affected, although Apple will require the standard in the future.
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