Know What Future Holds for Smartphones

Bangalore: June saw a lot of conventions with all the four giant operating system companies announcing some or the other upgrade. It started with Apple announcing updates to its iOS at WWDC and ended with Android announcing the upgrade for their operating system from Android 4.0 – Ice Cream Sandwich to Android 4.1 – Jellybean. Let’s have a look at what were the goodies released in the month of June and how the future of the smartphone looks.

Looking Into the Crystal Ball

iOS6

As usual the first to showcase their updates were Apple at its WWDC conference in the beginning of June. The updates didn’t bring much excitement as many of these features were already found in Android and Windows phone. But there are some good features that make the upgraded operating system stand out. The main goodie that Apple gave its fans with the new updated to iOS6 is the-“Passbook”- which helps the user to conveniently store and also access tickets.

Apart from this feature the iOS has a lot more interesting features and apps to offer its users like a smarter Siri which even updates your Facebook status, posts tweets or starts apps. You can also reserve a table at your favorite restaurant with Siri’s help. Along with Siri the new operating system also has an offline Web reading app and 3D maps.