Review: iOS 6 gets the spit and polish treatment

Don't want these emails? Unsubscribe here. Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Top stories: Sep 14 - Sep 21 Features Review: iOS 6 gets the spit and polish treatment by Jacqui Cheng It can be hard to remember that, five short years ago, many of us were still using feature phones while the rest had only the most basic (and now painfully outdated) smartphones—usually work-issued. But five years after the iPhone, Apple has released the sixth major version of its mobile operating system, and it is a study in subtle refinements. Apple has been previewing iOS 6 to the public since its WWDC conference in June, but we all know that seeing is believing. Does Apple's latest OS deliver the kind of improvements that Apple's existing and potential user base has come to expect? Read More Features When your best just isn't good enough: the Kindle Fire HD by Casey Johnston Amazon landed the first real volley in the 7-inch Android device market. Sure, the initial Kindle Fire was rough around the edges, but its shockingly low $199 price tag and integration with Amazon's services won over a few (million) consumers. Amazon sold tons of Kindle Fires in December 2011, and it wasn't long before the device held the top spot on the Android hardware charts. Read More Infinite Loop What we think is missing from the iPhone 5 by Ars Staff With the launch of the iPhone 5 this Wednesday, the big question is whether it's worth upgrading. Many of the new features—the camera specs, the design, probably the processor—impressed us, and some new features—the lack of simultaneous data and voice on Verizon and Sprint, and the lack of global roaming on AT&T iPhones—left us ever-so-slightly disappointed. Read More Forward this message to a friend More hot stories iPhone 5 deconstructed: packed with power efficient parts (Another) BlackBerry outage affects Europe, Africa, and the Middle East Locking up, locking down: Hands-on with iOS 6 enterprise management The New York PD wants to help find your iPhone IPv4 address transfer markets are forming where we least expected W3C announces plan to deliver HTML 5 by 2014, HTML 5.1 in 2016 Kindles are shown the automatic sliding door at Walmart Apple apes trademarked Swiss railway clock for iPad's new Clock app Arctic melt bottoms out at new record low Dual-ing impressions: Chatting about Torchlight II Email Admin Center This newsletter is a service of Ars Technica. Should you no longer wish to receive these messages, unsubscribe. To ensure delivery of this newsletter to your inbox and to enable images to load in future mailings, please add civis@arstechnica.com to your e-mail address book or safe senders list. You are receiving this email at narrongs.hotmobile@blogger.com. Condé Nast Digital 1166 Avenue of the Americas, 15th Floor, New York, NY 10036, attn: Ars Technica Email Coordinator To view our Privacy Policy click here.