Ios 4.2

iOS 4.2 features: AirPrint for iPhone, iPad goes wireless but not network

By Rene Ritchie, Monday, Nov 29, 2010 a 7:36 am

Just like AirPlay, AirPrint is a flagship feature of iOS 4.2 that initially offered more functionality than Apple finally delivered, yet despite arriving without network printing support, if you have one of the few supported HP printers it does indeed feel like the future.

iOS 4.2 features: Improved Safari web browser

By Rene Ritchie, Friday, Nov 26, 2010 a 4:20 pm

While AirPrint and AirPlay integration, and Find in Page are the big user-facing features new to iOS 4.2 Safari, MobileXWeb points out that Apple also snuck in a few improvements under the hood:

Accelerometer & Gyroscope support through the DeviceOrientation API
WebSockets API from HTML5
Updated HTML 5 Form Support
Partial XHR-2 Support
New JavaScript data types
New DOM events
Enhanced SVG and Canvas support

If you are a developer let us know how useful these additions will be to your Web Apps. If you're not a developer that might look like mumbo jumbo to you but rest assured it means more better web applications could be coming your way soon, and since Apple uses Safari's WebKit to render everything from iTunes to App Store or iAd to Apple.com, and Google uses it Gmail and pretty much all their sites, there's potential for a lot more, lot better content coming our way.

Video after the break!

[MobileXWeb]

iPhone live podcast 127: The Great Georgia Jailbreak

By Rene Ritchie, Thursday, Nov 25, 2010 a 10:16 pm

Rene, Farbod, and Ally help Georgia Jailbreak her iPhone 4 live -- and hilarity ensues. Plus iOS 4.2.1 for iPhone and iPod touch is here and we cover the good, the bad, and the bugs. Cough. AirPlay. Cough. This is iPhone Live!

Printopia brings AirPrint support to all Mac attached printers

By Leanna Lofte, Thursday, Nov 25, 2010 a 8:27 am

Printopia extends iOS 4.2 for iPhone and iPad AirPrint compatibility to any printer associated with your Mac. That's important because, while AirPrint was one of the most highly anticipated features of iOS 4.2 and Apple boasted that AirPrint mades it simple to print your email, photos, web pages, and documents, by itself it's currently only compatible with 11 printers. Enter Printopia:

Apple limiting users to 3 free Find my iPhone account setups per device?

By Rene Ritchie, Thursday, Nov 25, 2010 a 12:29 am

Turns out there might be a hard -- and permanent -- per device limit to setting up those free Find my iPhone accounts Apple announced alongside iOS 4.2.1, the ones you needed an iPhone 4, iPod touch (2010), or iPad to initiate but could then use on iPhone 3GS and other, older hardware.

Does iOS 4.2 make you feel like you have "a whole new iPad"?

By Rene Ritchie, Wednesday, Nov 24, 2010 a 10:12 am

Apple is sending out an email telling iPad owners that the just released iOS 4.2 will make them feel like they have "a whole new iPad":

The free iOS 4.2 Software Update has so many features, downloading it is like getting a new iPad. Just connect your iPad to your computer to get new features like multitasking, folders, wireless printing, and more.

Warning to unlockers: Apple implemented baseband signature check in iOS 4.2.1!

By Farbod, Wednesday, Nov 24, 2010 a 8:36 am

Apple has once again raised the stakes in their continuing cat and mouse game with unlockers by implementing a boot level signature check in iOS 4.2.1 that will cause the device to fail to boot if the baseband firmware is not correct. This is clearly a reaction to TinyUmbrella's ability to block baseband upgrades on the iPhone 4.

If you try and implement TinyUmbrella when installing 4.2.1 you will be thrown into recovery mode without the ability to kick yourself out of it unless you install the new baseband or downgrade back to iOS 4.1 (if you've saved your SHSH blobs).

Steve Jobs: iPad with iOS 4.2 is a target few other tablets will hit

By Rene Ritchie, Tuesday, Nov 23, 2010 a 10:58 pm

When announcing the iOS 4.2 update yesterday Steve Jobs once again took the opportunity to lay into the tablet competition, saying:

“Once again, the iPad with iOS 4.2 will define the target that other tablets will aspire to, but very few, if any, will ever be able to hit.”

Unlike iPhone, which got iOS 4 back in June, iOS 4.2 is a generational improvement for iPad, which has been stuck on iOS 3.2 since it debuted back in April. Multitasking, folders, AirPrint, AirPlay, threaded email, unified inbox, and more (see our complete iOS 4.2 for iPad walkthrough for all the details).

While RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook, HP's webOS PalmPad, and no doubt a legion of future Android 2.3 and 3.0 tablets are waiting in the wings, only the Galaxy Tab has shipped to date (not counting Windows Tablet PC or Archos, which are different in kind).

I had a chance to try out the Bell version of the Galaxy Tab over the weekend and came away thinking it doesn't really compete with the iPad at all. That's not to say no one will buy a Galaxy Tab -- 600,000 have reportedly been sold in the last month --but at 7-inches and running a thinly skinned version of Android 2.2 Froyo, it felt more like a big Galaxy S phone than a distinct tablet device.

No new text tones in iOS 4.2 for iPhone 3GS -- why?

By Andrew Wray, Tuesday, Nov 23, 2010 a 12:34 pm

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We mentioned this back during the betas, but it's worth a mention again as many iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS owners out there finished their iOS 4.2 update yesterday only to discover something missing -- the new text tones! Yes, for some reason Apple has chosen to only make those available on iPhone 4. No iPhone 4, no new text tones.

But why, you ask? We're wondering the same thing. We know this can't be performance-related, that's for sure. This makes us curious about what an email response from Steve Jobs would look like on the matter.

(Not that the new text tones are anything to write home about -- check out the video after the break if you want to hear them in action.)

Any iPhone 3G or iPhones 3GS owners out there feel left out in the cold and care to speculate?

iOS 4.2 bugs: iPhone music gone after the update? Here's the fix!

By Georgia, Tuesday, Nov 23, 2010 a 11:45 am

If you've just updated to iOS 4.2 on your iPhone only to discover all your favorite music has mysteriously gone missing, don't worry, you're not alone. Our tip line has exploded with users complaining about the very same thing. It's a scare for sure but luckily the fix is quite simple. Check it out after the break.