Otherwise, iOS 6 is fast, stable and apparently free of major problems. So far, I've installed it on Retina display iPads, several iPhone 4Ses and an iPad 2. All took the manual updates without issue and ran the new OS without any performance degradation. Battery life has remained consistent as well.

As for my favorite changes, I love Photo Streams and the Camera app's Panorama mode; I've tweeted a couple of panoramas I took of some recent sunrises. Panorama mode makes taking great looking shots really easy. It's a shame it's not available on more models.

I'm also happy to see iCloud services working well, both as a backup/restore mechanism and as a way to sync my data across devices. There were many times throughout the summer I'd bump into a new feature, activate Siri and begin a "Note to self...." It was nice to sit down at my Mac and have all of those notes at my disposal, even though all of them were created on the iPhone. Thanks, iCloud.

Automatic iCloud sync proved really handy as well -- I was able to write this review using Pages on the Mac and then access the same document on my iPhone and iPad. When I made a change to the text on my iPad, the Mac version of Pages automatically accepted the changes, even if the document was open on my desktop. The depth of integration between iOS and the OS X is now pretty significant -- and it happened with baby steps, evolutions instead of revolutions.

Such is the case with iOS 6, which adds a lot of solid and useful tweaks and tricks to an already refined OS. I didn't hesitate to upgrade, and there's really no reason for users not to do the same, unless you're hyper-cautious. In that case, you can wait for iOS 6.0.1. But, if you do, you'll be missing out on a worthwhile upgrade.