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Latest iOS 5 beta brings photo album curation to devices (Updated)
Update: This functionality was present in Beta 1, sorry for the error. iOS 5 Beta 2 landed in the hands of developers last week, and details on the latest version of the mobile OS are hitting the newswire. One neat feature is the ability to create photo albums on your iOS device. In this beta version, photos are assigned to an album, but not removed from the original Camera Roll. If you remove one of the originals, it will be deleted from your custom photo album, too. This quirk may be removed in future versions of iOS, but it's equally likely that Apple will keep things as is. The photo album feature could let you organize photos on your device (something we've wanted for a long time), but you may still need the originals in the Camera Roll for syncing to iPhoto or iCloud.
Album2 is the non-touchscreen photo album tablet you've always been waiting for
We're not ones to get overly sentimental about photos, but the Album2 would love to get us started. The device hinges on a stupid simple control scheme of three buttons, no touchscreen nonsense here, and can sort through photos, movies and music -- though it's clearly centered around the first of those three. There's WiFi for pulling in YouTube and Picasa media, and... well, actually, that's just about it. The screen is great, there's a leather protective cover that flips around as a stand, and the back of the device is beautifully adorned with some raised braille-style dots spelling "album." When it ships, hopefully sometime this year, Album2 will retail for $199. Check out a video of it in action after the break. %Gallery-82178%
