“Just like with previous iOS versions before it, Apple was able to demo only some of the main features of its upcoming iOS 8 update during this year’s WWDC keynote, but buried inside iOS 8 there will be plenty of other cool features Apple did not mention during the event,” Chris Smith reports for BGR. “However, Apple listed some of the upcoming iOS 8 features it didn’t have time to discuss at length on a slide that popped up briefly at the very end of its presentation.”
They include:
• Braille Keyboard for direct 6 dot braille input
• Instant burst camera mode
• Wi-Fi calling support
• ‘Hey, Siri’ hotword
• Separate focus and exposure in Camera
• Panoramic photos on iPad
• DuckDuckGo support in Safari
More new features listed in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
“Braille Keyboard for direct 6 dot braille input”
Does this mean that haptic feedback is coming to an iPhone or iPad in the next generation? Haptic feedback was one of the hot “it’s going to be in the next iDevice” topics a while back. Could it be happening soon?
(Just idle speculation and gross extrapolation.)
I’d love to see Samsung try to copy this. Sammy, Sammy, Sammy…you never fail to make us Apple faithful laugh.
I thought Hi Galaxy was on the Galaxy S2 3 years ago and most of these features already existed on Samsung phones.
I love that Apple is supporting DuckDuckGo out of the box. Cut Google off at the knees. Enhance Search to provide the most likely landing spot without Google, and offer people a reasonable alternative to the blood-sucking Do Know Evil empire. Google will rue the day!
It would be great if they made it the default as well.
I’m pretty sure Google pay a pretty penny to be default (heard $1B?)
Another nice bat in googles knees is spotlight search. That looks very useful
DuckDuckGo is destined for brilliance. BUT, it’s still having growing pains.
Does anybody know what’s to prevent a site from submitting searches to Google’s search engine programmatically and taking the results and re-displaying them without the ads and other BS? Just curious.
Nothing at all. Google turns a blind eye.
Bing does it, as is now well known.
MetaCrawler was the first to do it.
Dogpile (son of MetaCrawler) does it.
. . .
DuckDuckGo has depended on Google results, specifically for images and videos. That is changing at this very moment (with some prodding from the likes of me among others).
Get the widget
I use DDG exclusively on my iPhone and iPad mini. A few days ago I downloaded the OSX Safari extension version of DDG. It takes a little to get used to but sans all the BS ads is incredible.
I like DDG too. Been using it for 10 days since learning — thanks to a tip from this website — how to set it up as default using the Safari Extension app. It returns clean search results with no paid placements and also has a visually-attractive results screen. I like it much better than Bing or Google, and the extra security it provides is a big bonus. DDG sort of reminds me of the old Apple Sherlock, if anyone remembers that and misses it. Anyway, I have been suggesting DDG to family and friends to try.
No need to wait… there is a DuckDuckGo Safari extension that I’ve been using for several months. It’s great. However, there should be an option to make it quack.
Rich text in Notes. I like it – too bad iOS 8 probably won’t run on my iPad 2. Maybe it’s time to upgrade. It’s short of memory at times running iOS 7.
It does run on iPad 2. Cut out devices are iPhone 4 / 4th gen ipod Good, they should go away and die.
A couple iPhone 4 advocates.
At least this way games can be released for iOS 8 only and not get 1 star negative reviews left by someone complaining it crashes on a device it says it doesn’t support in the *unread* description.
My iPad Air is short on memory sometimes running iOS7.
99% of the public don’t know and don’t want to know what a phone can do. They call. They get calls. They message. They listen to music.
Is ‘Hey Siri’ a ripoff of ‘OK Google’?
LOL
Would have been more funny if Apple had invoked Siri with the phrase “Anything but Google”. Probably less intuitive than “Hey, Siri” but kind of funny.
Except that Apple has had a similar speech recognition feature since the advent of PlainTalk circa 1993. Therefore, once again Google has…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlainTalk
It can be configured to listen for commands when a hot key is pressed, after being addressed with an activation phrase such as “Computer”, or “Macintosh”, or without prompt.
These days, you can get to the setting here:
Menu/System Preferences…/Speech/Speech Recognition/Listening Method:/Listen continuously with keyword/Keyword:
The default is “Hey”. But you can make it ‘OK Google’ if you so choose. 😉
Not 99%. People who buy iPhones use them as a hand held computer that also makes phone calls. People who but Android phones use them to make calls and post selfies to Facebook.
Here are the links for the DuckDuckGo app and Safari extension. It should tide you over until iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite are released.
DuckDuck Go Search and Stories app for iOS:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/duckduckgo-search-stories/id663592361?mt=8
DuckDuckGo Safari extension for Mac:
https://duck.co/help/desktop/safari
I’m gonna walk into an Apple store and yell “Hey Siri” and see what happens 🙂 Maybe follow that with “Call home” and see if everyone’s phone starting dialing from pockets and purses. Good for a laugh no ?
Does iOS support group email messaging? That is single click of a group loads all members of that group into the “To:”.