iOS 4.2 & iOS 4.2.1 for iPad, iPhone & iPod Touch
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/ November 23, 2010 12:07 AM EST
Hey iPhone user, get ready for the next jailbreak, iOS 4.2. Download your iOS 4.2. And also find out what's new in iOS 4.2.1.
Download iOS 4.2, get ready for the next jailbreak
Download iOS 4.2:
iPad 4.2:
iPhone 3G iOS 4.2:
iPhone 3Gs iOS 4.2:
iPhone 4 4.2:
iPod Touch 2G iOS 4.2:
iPod Touch 3G iOS 4.2:
iPod Touch 4 iOS 4.2:
Download iOS 4.2.1:
iPad iOS 4.2.1:
iPhone 3G iOS 4.2.1:
iPhone 3Gs iOS 4.2.1 :
iPhone 4 iOS 4.2.1:
iPod Touch 2G iOS 4.2.1:
iPod Touch 3G iOS 4.2.1:
iPod Touch 4 iOS 4.2.1 :
Contents of iOS 4.2 for iPhone 4, iPhone 3Gs, iPhone 3G, iPod Touch 2G, iPod Touch 3g & iPod Touch 4:
AirPrint:
- Easily print emails, photos, web pages, and much more using compatible printers with AriPrint and a local wireless network.
Air Play:
- Real-time wireless streaming of videos, music, and photos to Apple TV; real-time wireless music streaming to AirPlay-compatible speakers and receivers, including AirProt Express.
FaceTime improvements:
- Initiate calls using voice control
- Initiating calls from MMS message conversations
- Bluetooth accessory compatibility
- Searching for text on web pages in Safari
- New font type settings available in Notes
- New SMS/MMS message tones and the ability to define custom icons for each contact
Additional restrictions (parental controls) available:
- Settling of scores
- Friends of Game Center
- Location settings
- Ability to import .ics files into calendar
Troubleshooting :
- Removal of sound effects that were sometimes generated in audio recordings of the fourth generation iPod Touch
- Improves audio playback on car stereos via USB
iPad iOS 4.2 improvements:
- Including over 100 new features for the iPad, such as multitasking support, folders, a unified email inbox, Game Center, AirPrint, AirPlay, and many system improvements, it is highly recommended for all iPad users.
Multitasking compatible with third-party applications.
- Multitasking, with a user interface to quickly switch applications, adjust screen brightness, control audio playback, lock screen rotation, and manage the printer.
- Compatibility with audio applications running in the background.
- VoIP applications can receive background calls when the device is in standby mode.
- Applications can track location and perform actions while running in the background.
- Alerts and messages to applications can be avoided through PUSH and local notification systems.
- The applications can complete tasks in the background.
- Creating folders to improve organization and access to applications.
Mail improvements:
- Unified inbox to view email messages from all your accounts together.
- You can switch between the inboxes of various email accounts quickly.
- Linked messages to view multiple emails from the same conversation.
- Importing .ics files into a calendar.
- Attachments can be opened with compatible third-party applications.
- Search results can be saved or deleted.
- Option to select the size of attached photos.
- Outbox messages can be edited or deleted.
Game Center:
- Sending and receiving friend requests.
- You can invite friends to multiplayer games over the internet.
- Multiplayer games using automatic player selection.
- Viewing the leaderboards and achievements.
- You can discover new games through friends.
AirPrint:
- Easily print emails, photos, web pages, and much more using compatible printers with AriPrint and a local wireless network.
Air Play:
- Real-time wireless streaming of videos, music, and photos to Apple TV; real-time wireless music streaming to AirPlay-compatible speakers and receivers, including AirProt Express.
Searching for text on web pages in Safari
- Using Spotlight to search the internet and Wikipedia
- When you search the internet, suggestions and recent searches appear.
- Possibility of renting television programs through iTunes.
- Creating and editing iTunes playlists on the device
- Possibility of giving away apps
- Ability to send and accept calendar invitations remotely using compatible CalDAV servers.
- More privacy regarding location
- The location icon appears in the status bar to indicate when location services are in use.
- Location services can be enabled and disabled for each application individually.
- Indication of which applications have requested the device's location during the last 24 hours.
Optional parental controls.
- Control of adding Game Center friends and removing applications.
- Restriction on modifying location account settings.
- More languages, dictionaries, and keyboards
- New fonts available for notes.
- Remote synchronization of notes with IMAP email accounts
- Automatic spell check
- Possibility to mute sounds using the iPad's side mute switch.
- Greater compatibility with the AVRCP Bluetooth profile.
- Continuous WiFi connection to receive push notifications
- Braille display compatibility
