Smartphone OS Showdown: Apple, Google, Microsoft, RIM Gear Up for Battle

21.06.2012

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Apple introduced the latest updates for iOS during the company's Worldwide Developers Conference in June. from iOS 6 in favor of an Apple-owned mapping utility that will include built-in turn-by-turn voice-guided navigation, real-time traffic information, photo-realistic 3D flyovers of major urban areas worldwide and vector graphics.

Facebook integration is baked into allowing you to share status updates, photos and Web pages from almost anywhere on the phone. Deep Twitter integration, first introduced in iOS 5, will also remain in iOS 6.

Apple is introducing a new feature called that collects your movie tickets, retail coupons, loyalty cards, and airline and train boarding passes into one spot. There is some speculation about whether Passbook suggests the next iPhone will feature NFC support. Instead of having someone scan your iPhone's screen with Passbook, the next iPhone could tie into an NFC chip to hold your credit card information for mobile payments.