iOS 5 for "Old" iPhone & iPad: New Features, Twitter Everywhere & New Free Apple Apps

Apple’s iOS 5 update had a hard time getting into the hands of owners of “old” devices like the iPhone 4 and iPad 2 yesterday because of problems with Apple’s servers. Although these “older” devices (compared to the iPhone 4S) will not have features such as the Siri AI speech recognition services, there are a number of significant upgrades including:

– The ability to create Twitter updates directly from the browser, photo viewer and other apps
– iCloud synchronization
– Rotate, enhance, red-eye correction and cropping right in the photo app
– The free iMessage text-messaging service
– Android-like pull down notifications
– Customized typing shortcuts
– Optional iPad on-screen split keyboard