Hands-On First Impressions of iOS 6

iPad Siri

The iPad has Sir.

At WWDC 2012, Apple unveiled the next generation of iOS. iOS 6 sports more than 200 new features and upgrades — including the new Apple Maps, deep Facebook integration and improvements to Siri.

Although iOS 6 won’t be available on compatible devices until sometime this fall, the first beta build is currently available to developers. We’ve gone ahead and installed iOS 6 on our new iPad (64GB Verizon LTE model) and poked around with the new features.

While it is clear that this is a beta — certain features aren’t fully baked and there is some crashing and inconsistency with a few existing apps — it’s equally clear that this is a solid OS update.

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