Displaying items by tag: iOS 4.2.1

So much is still not known about the iPad 2, but plenty is being guessed at by the world's iPrognosticators, all of whom have specific things they want to see, but whether Steve Jobs will let them be is still an unknown unknown.

Although iOS 4.3 was rumoured by many to be arriving in December, complete with some kind of new newspaper subscription facility, the rapidly approaching end of December likely means no iOS 4.3 until 2011 - if we don't skip straight to iOS 5.0 instead.

OK, Apple, the iPad 2 ball is in your court, but in the court of public opinion, which Apple doesn't always seem to court, it would be curt of us not to mention that without all of these features, the expectations of at least some could be caught short!

An updated, more efficient and fully untethered version of the iOS 4.2.1 jailbreak for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch is being reported as due by December 24, but with the deletion of a tweet suggesting this would happen, jailbreakers waiting for the latest and greatest jailhouse hack are stuck in anticipatory suspense!

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!

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.