iOS 5 brings brand new features to Apple’s mobile devices like Notification Center, iMessage, Newsstand, Reminders, Twitter Integration, photo editing, and PC Independence. Existing applications such as Safari, the Camera app, iCal, Mail and Game Center also shared the keynote spotlight with their impressive list of improvements. But in addition to everything the keynote revealed Apple says iOS 5 includes more than 200 new features for your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch. After searching the web long and hard I found over than 10 new things your iDevices will be able to do for you once iOS 5 is released in the Fall.

Get Your Attention Without Making a Sound

BlackBerry users have always been wild about the little blinking LED in the corner of their phones, and now with iOS 5 Apple fans can join in the obsession. iOS 5 allows users to use their iPhone 4’s camera flash to signal notifications such as incoming calls, or unheard voicemail. Deaf iPhone users depend on visual queues to alert them of notifications and now your can too with LED flash notifications in iOS 5.

Dance to a Different Beat

Vibration alerts have been a feature of cell phones ever since I can remember, but never before could you customize the way your phone dances and jibes to an incoming call or notification. iOS 5 introduces custom vibration notifications. Now with your iPhone you can create your own vibration alerts and assign them to specific contacts or notifications. Silent alerts just got a whole new swing.

Put a New Face on Music

When the iPhone first debuted Steve sold it as one third widescreen iPod, and the ability to take your music and videos with you on the go has been a critical part of the iPhone’s success ever since. In iOS 5 the iPod is gone, but the music plays on. The iPod app has been separated into Music and Videos just like it has always been on the iPod Touch.

On the iPad the sleek lines, smooth gradients, and wood accents of a high end stereo have replaced the iTunes inspired interface for listening to music and podcasts. Long song titles scroll smoothly, smart playlists sync effortlessly, and if you tap and hold on a song’s name a popup shows all the details. Best of all you can swipe to delete songs and remove playlists on the go, and if you are into broadcasting your music around the house using Bluetooth all of your album, track, and artist information will be sent along with the melody. Music takes center stage in iOS 5.

Transform Your Typing

Typing has always been part of touch screen computing, but until the iPhone arrived tablets and PDAs didn’t do much more than allow you to poke at letters with a stick. Multi-touch killed the stylus, and iOS’s auto correction and adaptive keyboards won our trust over the physical keypad.

iOS 5 takes touch screen typing to a whole new level with user defined auto expanding shortcuts, colorful Emoji emoticons, and a built-in Twitter keyboard with dedicated # and @ buttons. The big news for iPad users is that thumb typing is no longer a stretching exercise. The iPad’s keyboard can be split in two for both portrait and landscape orientations keeping all the letters within thumb’s reach. Text entry, no matter the length, got a whole lot quicker, colorful, and comfortable in iOS 5.

Enhance Your Privacy

Privacy controls have always been a part of Apple’s mobile operating system, but iOS 5 gives users even more control over the information their devices store, and the connections their iPhones make. For the first time data collected while browsing can be deleted selectively on a per site basis. Private browsing has been a popular feature on the desktop version of Safari since version 1.0, but with iOS 5 the collection of history, cookies, cache, and offline databases can be excluded globally with a single toggle switch.

Additional information about the location of incoming calls, such as city and state, will be revealed before the call is answered, and iOS 5 will warn users if calls are being conducted on an insecure cellular network. Finally when a private call has concluded unwanted entries can be removed from the call history without clearing the entire list. In iOS 5 you can control the level of your privacy one website and call at a time.

Sync Wirelessly

The news being made over iCloud and syncing with Apple’s North Carolina Data center has overshadowed one of iOS 5’s most requested features, the ability to sync wirelessly at home. Your iDevice will need to be plugged into power before it can sync wirelessly with iTunes, but once it has made a connection you will no longer be prevented from using iOS while it syncs. A discrete syncing icon perched in the status bar will let you know data is being transmitted in the background, and a new menu in settings will let you know how much space each app and its files are taking up.

Speaking of apps iOS 5 now lets you download multiple apps in the background, and let’s you use different Apple IDs for different purposes. You can even configure your home Airport base station or rename your iOS device without having to visit a computer running iTunes. Even without the cloud iOS 5 lets you do more wirelessly in your own home.

Give You More FaceTime

The true potential of Apple’s FaceTime video chat has never been realized because the conversation has always been limited to devices on Wi-Fi networks. With iOS 5 Apple gives carriers the choice to allow FactTime over 3G, and allows FaceTime conversations to continue over Wi-Fi on an iPhone without a SIM card inserted. Thanks to new settings users now have the choice of using their phone number, or email address to be contacted via FaceTime.

Find Your Way

Maps have been a part of iOS since the original iPhone, but it wasn’t until GPS was added in the iPhone 3G that getting on the go directions in iOS became usable. No, iOS 5 does not offer built-in turn-by-turn voice navigation, but it can finally suggest an alternative route or print a paper map if your current on screen course is not to your liking.

Define Your Words

Dictionary definitions might be a small feature for some, but a big feature for writers and readers who can now look up any word from any application in iOS 5. I am still waiting for a system wide thesaurus.

Multitasking at a Touch

Multitouch gestures are one of the top ten key features of Mac OS X Lion, and it comes at no surprise that they are making their way onto the iPad with iOS 5.

Use four or five fingers, swipe up to reveal the multitasking bar, pinch to return to the Home screen, and swipe left or right to switch between apps.

The iPad is getting a touch of the Minority Report in iOS 5.

With over 200 features there is still more to uncover before iOS 5 makes its official debut this fall.