[Official] iOS 4.2 discussion

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The free iOS 4.2 Software Update brings all-new features to your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch

Feature list:

* Multitasking on iPad - iOS 4.2 brings multitasking from iPhone and iPod touch to iPad.

* Folders on iPad - Move apps into folders with drag-and-drop simplicity to keep your apps organized.

* AirPrint - AirPrint makes it simple to print email, photos, web pages, and documents right from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.

* AirPlay - AirPlay lets you stream digital media wirelessly from your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch to your Apple TV and AirPlay-enabled speakers.

* Find My iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - The MobileMe feature that helps you locate your missing device and protect its data

* Game Center for iPad - Find friends or use auto-match to play multiplayer games against new opponents.

* iTunes TV show rentals - Rent TV shows commercial free in HD

* Mail - See messages from all your accounts in a unified inbox, organize messages by threads, and open attachments in third-party apps.

* Find text on web pages - In Safari, you can do a quick text search to find and highlight specific words and phrases.

* Notes with fonts - Customize your notes using different fonts. Marker Felt, Helvetica, and Chalkboard.

* Reply to calendar invitations - Reply to event invitations from friends using different calendar services.

* Keyboard and dictionary enhancements - Support for over 50 languages and dialects, with more than 30 new international keyboards and dictionaries for iPad.

* Accessibility enhancements - Control VoiceOver using a wireless keyboard. Output in braille to over 30 Bluetooth braille displays.

* Enhanced enterprise support - Businesses can take advantage of stronger security features.

* Messaging with text tones - Choose from 17 new alerts and assign custom tones for people in your contact list.

Apple iOS 4.2 Page

Post your Experience with iOS 4.2.1 and Bugs/Problems here.

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I love the fact that Apple chose to make the new text tones iPhone 4 only.

I was gonna say that they left this out, this is the most ridiculous thing I have ever seen.

And yes, the Voice Memos icon changed, and looks, meh. They could have at least fixed the Messages and Calendar icons.

Otherwise, a lot faster on my 3GS. (Y)

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Is anyone else using Saurik's Caching server stuck on the "Verifying iPhone Update with Apple" stage?

I had the same error. I had to use TinyUmbrella to get pass this part.

I also can't believe I can't use AirPrint to print to a shared printer. Are they gonna add that later?

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Is it worth updating an iPhone 3G to 4.2? Is it still painfully slow? It's got 3.1.3 on it, when 4.0 was first released I upgraded and it was so slow I had to downgrade again.

It's not too bad, much better then 4.0 though.

Ugh... No Find in page for iPhone 3G users, maybe our devices can't handle search? Maybe it'll make the phone explode into magical fairy dust - who knows.

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