Displaying items by tag: iOS 4.2

A new version of Commonwealth Bank's Kaching mobile provides Android support plus a new feature just for iPhone users. And the foreshadowed Kaching Facebook app is coming to pass.

Steve Jobs, who leads Apple and makes the decisions that matter, has clearly decided that the iPad mute-lock switch is simpler and easier when delivered in a consistent manner with his other iOS devices, but does this mean he's a geek?

C'mon anonymous Beatweek person, ye of the perennially 'comments closed' and no journalist name, making thy anonymous prognostications and wishing for a software switch on the iPad to return the mute-lock to orientation lock if so desired, which some people definitely do desire!

Apple's iOS 4.2.1 has been eagerly downloaded by millions around the world, eager to enjoy the multifunctional benefits the update brings, while rumours of iOS 4.3 arriving in December won't stop, with jailbreaking hackers also having updated Cydia for 4.2.1 compatibility!

Much of the excitement around iOS 4.2 concerns the arrival of new functionality. But the update also includes a shed-full of security fixes, especially for the iPad. Apple has also updated the software for the current-model Apple TV.

After the original iPad launched some several million years ago, the ultra-long-awaited iOS 4.2 has finally arrived for Apple's trio of terrific iPlatforms, the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch, putting Apple's iPad even further ahead of its Android tablet competitors!

As the iPad's iOS 3.2.2 and iOS 4.1 triple or even quadruple witching nears, it is set to usher in a new era of iOS 4.2.1 stability, harmony and iHappiness - or at least, until the iOS 5.0 rumours start! Here's a special list of new iCommandments that could well be coming when iOS 4.2.1 finally hits Apple's download servers.

If MobileMe going free for some iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad owners running iOS 4.2.1 is true, it's a sign that Apple has decided to really ramp things right up in the smartphone wars, matching some competitors and throwing down the gauntlet to others, with who knows what extra iSurprises yet to come?

Every .0 release of a new OS is always fraught with difficulty - bugs, bugs and more bugs needing further point releases to fix, with iOS 4.x users still suffering issues that iOS 4.2 - or is it iOS 4.2.1 - is meant to fix, while hoping Apple gets it right this time!

Hackers seem to always get their hands on the good stuff first, and this has included the latest third 'gold master' now dubbed iOS 4.2.1 to reflect fixed bugs, but no fix for the good ol' jailbreak!

The rumour that iOS 4.2 would arrive today was only partially right, for iOS 4.2 did come, but only as a third 'gold master', and with a new name: iOS 4.2.1.

A rumour has just come out suggesting that iOS 4.2 for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch will come to a weary, waiting iPad-owning world - in less than two hours, at 1pm ET today, November 18 in the US, and 5am on November 19 (also today) in Australia!!

Want AirPrint, AirPlay, multitasking, better audio output, a unified inbox, folders for organisation, iOS 4.2 optimised apps, a new mute switch, better on-screen controls and much, much more for the ultimate 2010 iPad upgrade? Join the club!

With Android tablets thus far proving to be far less polished than Apple's iOS experience, which itself will shortly be massively upgraded with iOS 4.2's capabilities, iOS 4.2 is Apple's weapon against the advance-party of Android attack tablets.

As previously revealed, Apple's search result in Google pointed to a mysterious 'that page', but since the Beatles came to town and took over Apple's home page, 'that page' referring to iOS 4.2 has disappeared from view!

With Apple loving its symmetry and design, and with the Beatles day we'll never forget being memorable for not delivering iOS 4.2 with it, questions over whether the palindromic quality of 24 and 4.2 play any part in Apple's decisions to unleash its latest OS unto an impatient iPad-owning public!

Apple says the Beatles are now on iTunes, including 'all 13 legendary Beatles studio albums & special digital Box Set', with comments from the remaining Beatles stars and immediate relatives!

The Beatles have arrived on iTunes sparking a day that we'll never forget, but while the day is far from over, will it be remembered as yet another day that iOS 4.2 still didn't arrive?

After literally years of speculation, the Beatles have come to Apple's iTunes at last, uniting Apple Corps and Apple in digital form, with the lawsuits and sosumi of old now but memories of yesterday.

With Apple potentially unleashing an iTunes cloud service, the entire Beatles collection, iOS 4.2, a cure for cancer, a way to transmute lead into gold, and the explanation of the significance of 4.2 as the answer to the question of life, the universe and everything, the journey to the iOS 4.2 side of the force is nearly complete.