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iPhone iOS 4.2 - what's new...

angrytoothbrush

angrytoothbrush

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I think all these iPad guys are having all the fun! I have seen tid bits here and there in a bunch of different threads so lets get em all together. So what have you found new with iOS 4.2 in regards to the iPhone... I'll attach pictures soon but here are somethings I have found...

1. in multi-task bar swiping left not only brings you to the music (play skip back) option doing it once more gives you a volume bar... dont know why tho

2. New text tones and the ability to assign different ones to different contacts.

3. Facetime w/in text messages and now a voice control command

4. Way to rate youtube videos

5.The ability to print

6. Locate keywords w/in a webpage: Find
 
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angrytoothbrush said:
I think all these iPad guys are having all the fun! I have seen tid bits here and there in a bunch of different threads so lets get em all together. So what have you found new with iOS 4.2 in regards to the iPhone... I'll attach pictures soon but here are somethings I have found...

1. in multi-task bar swiping left not only brings you to the music (play skip back) option doing it once more gives you a volume bar... dont know why tho

2. New text tones and the ability to assign different ones to different contacts.
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I wonder why Apple gives so much importance to text tones?

Don't they know people e-mail these days?

Why can't you assign a different EMAIL tone for your contacts? You can do that with one of those free blackberry curves they give you when you sign up for a contract.
 
lol I can sense the tone... More of a hunt for the stuff we didnt already have... implied but not said i suppose
 
ajarnfalang said:
I wonder why Apple gives so much importance to text tones?

Don't they know people e-mail these days?

Why can't you assign a different EMAIL tone for your contacts? You can do that with one of those free blackberry curves they give you when you sign up for a contract.
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couldn't agree more...
 
ajarnfalang said:
I wonder why Apple gives so much importance to text tones?

Don't they know people e-mail these days?

Why can't you assign a different EMAIL tone for your contacts? You can do that with one of those free blackberry curves they give you when you sign up for a contract.
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hmmm maybe because way more texts are sent on average person than emails?
 
-Activate FaceTime with voice control (I think this is new)
-Search for words on a page with safari.
 
Some things i've found or have been widely reported
 

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Is there no way to use AirPlay to send music from iTunes to an iOS device, because the button to use airplay isn't showing up for me.
 
Are the new text tones only for the 3gs and the 4? I just loaded 4.2 on a 3G and i don't see any new tones. Also no airprint icon either, although it asked me if i wanted to enable airprint on the device???
 
ajarnfalang said:
Really?

Tell that to the business crowd.

If they want to compete with Blackberry, just give us a menu for email tones.. Is it really that hard?
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uhh yes really. way to pick out a crowd of people that primarily use email to try and make your point.

many many people send out thousands and thousands of texts a month. pretty sure not near as many send out thousands of emails.
 
ajarnfalang said:
I wonder why Apple gives so much importance to text tones?

Don't they know people e-mail these days?

Why can't you assign a different EMAIL tone for your contacts? You can do that with one of those free blackberry curves they give you when you sign up for a contract.
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Hell, I'd settle for just being able to change it from the default.
 
Totally agree..... its difficult hearing the "bing" bell when email arrives. Would I like custom email sounds per user - sure. But at least let me change the email sound so something more noticable. Its been 4 generations of the iphone and for Apple not to allow this feature is hard to believe.
 
Simm0nS777 said:
uhh yes really. way to pick out a crowd of people that primarily use email to try and make your point.

many many people send out thousands and thousands of texts a month. pretty sure not near as many send out thousands of emails.
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ummm, i'm gonna go ahead and squash this...
i work for the gov(as do THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS of people). our blackberries ONLY email and call. we can't send texts...and that is the same for ALL gov workers who are issued blackberries.

The reason? so they can store all the emails sent and received. :)

SO yes, email tones are HUGE.
 
I think its depends on the market you look at really.
The business user will use email more, when the normal consumer will text more.
 
WelshBluebird said:
I think its depends on the market you look at really.
The business user will use email more, when the normal consumer will text more.
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debateable...

is a business person not a normal consumer as well?

LOTS of people don't text because they feel it's too impersonal. I for one would never text another person when i don't know them...just doesn't come across as professional [in any setting].
 
WelshBluebird said:
I think its depends on the market you look at really.
The business user will use email more, when the normal consumer will text more.
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It does depend on the market you look at, but all the reports I've seen differentiate on age as opposed to business vs consumer. (but yes, business users are the same consumers).

Teenagers send over 100 texts per day. The overall average for all users is 40 per day.

E-mail blows both of those numbers out of the water. Not sure why iPhones would be any different. In fact, I'd guess the average iPhone owner is not a teenager. If that's true that gives e-mail the edge.
 
The real question is why allow you to set individual SMS tones to different contacts if you still can't use custom SMS tones? Sure, we have more to choose from now, but we're still very limited to how many people we can uniquely identify by an SMS alert tone. Suppose we can just use our favorite tones for our most common contacts and use the more undesirable tones for other ppl :p
 
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