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iOS 4.2 Notes: AirPlay, Find My iPhone, AirPrint, New iPad Features
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The new SMS tones are astonishingly horrible. Like, I don't know what Apple was thinking horrible. First of all, they are all wayyyy too long. It's already annoying enough to hear peoples' phones constantly chirping and dinging as they have text-message conversations, but can you imagine how irritating these long, protracted tones will be? Argh, I'm mystified as to what they were thinking.
Am i wrong or iPhone 3G update doesn't bring new sms tones?
Taken directly from the article/post:Well I downgraded from 4.2GM to 4.2.1 - disabled printing for me altogether
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You're not. It doesn't.
Hi!
Nothing to be excited about with this new release on an iPhone 3GS like mine.
Find my iPhone doesn't work, an iPhone 4G is required for that specific feature.
iPrint doesn't recognise my hp 309c whilst hp iPrint 3.0 used to on the previous iOS 4.1.
So I downgraded back to iOS 4.1.
Conlusion: iPhone 3GS owners, keep iOS 4.1
Nothing to be excited about with this new release on an iPhone 3GS like mine.
Find my iPhone doesn't work, an iPhone 4G is required for that specific feature.
iPrint doesn't recognise my hp 309c whilst hp iPrint 3.0 used to on the previous iOS 4.1.
So I downgraded back to iOS 4.1.
Conlusion: iPhone 3GS owners, keep iOS 4.1
Just get Airfoil if you really want this feature, it can stream audio from your Mac (and even from individual applications) to any AirTunes (or now rather AirPlay) device AND to any iOS device.
OK, that's neat I guess. But not what I call killer. As far as what it does in my home, I'm just not that impressed. My Mac is always on so that's a non-issue.
I wonder if this is just the beginning though. I would think that the ability to stream any browser content would be in the potential future plans.
I love my apple tv - wish it could play my DVD player on my Mac.
Hi!
Nothing to be excited about with this new release on an iPhone 3GS like mine.
Find my iPhone doesn't work, an iPhone 4G is required for that specific feature.
iPrint doesn't recognise my hp 309c whilst hp iPrint 3.0 used to on the previous iOS 4.1.
So I downgraded back to iOS 4.1.
Conlusion: iPhone 3GS owners, keep iOS 4.1
I'm still on 4.0
No printing still is a bummer
Im not going to go and buy a HP printer just for the iPad. For that matter Im not going to buy a HP printer ever (Bad experience with HP)
The AirPrint feature is a disappointment, but if you spend $10 to get Printopia, you can print to any shared printer on your wifi network. Works as you expected the plain AirPrint to work.
I see that (on the iphone w/ 4.2) the volume control is in the multi-tasking tray after moving left twice... was that there before? I really can't remember XD
Thing that sucks about airfoil I think is, u cant easily browse your music content.
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Just having a play with Airplay.
On my laptop I notice that I can stream video from itunes but not the quicktime player (kind of obviously since one has been updated recently and one hasn't)
I had a play with an iphone video I had recorded. Streams fine if I drop it into itunes - won't play from iphone/ipad or quicktime. So doesn't seem to be anything to do with the format/resolution of the video but a product of which player I use.
I wonder if the reality is that Apple hasn't built this into all their video playing components yet and we will see it gradually rolled out?
I think the two things that will make it totally rock for me are - playing from safari and playing iphone videos
(edit: and actually building it into keynote too - I have taken to travelling with my apple tv 2 since it is so small and most hotel rooms these days have a flat screen with a HDMI input - being able to do presentations from it would be very nice)
On my laptop I notice that I can stream video from itunes but not the quicktime player (kind of obviously since one has been updated recently and one hasn't)
I had a play with an iphone video I had recorded. Streams fine if I drop it into itunes - won't play from iphone/ipad or quicktime. So doesn't seem to be anything to do with the format/resolution of the video but a product of which player I use.
I wonder if the reality is that Apple hasn't built this into all their video playing components yet and we will see it gradually rolled out?
I think the two things that will make it totally rock for me are - playing from safari and playing iphone videos
(edit: and actually building it into keynote too - I have taken to travelling with my apple tv 2 since it is so small and most hotel rooms these days have a flat screen with a HDMI input - being able to do presentations from it would be very nice)
You guys just don't want to upgrade...iOS 4.2.1 on the Iphone 4 runs better and is faster but I restored to factory settings. You should always do this on a major iOS release.
No printing still is a bummer
Im not going to go and buy a HP printer just for the iPad. For that matter Im not going to buy a HP printer ever (Bad experience with HP)
Use Printopia, it works great. Just downloaded it to my Mac and installed it and am printing just fine from my iPad and iPhone.
It's a preparation for iPhone 5. iPhone 5 will get nice tones thus forcing you to upgrade