but those are not the stuff of minor updates. It's still not perfect, it still suffers from the age-old gripes of poor notification handling among other things, there's still no good, SIRI-infused, OS-wide VoiceControl system, etc. From small but long missing features like Find in Safari, to annoyances like Marker Felt in Notes, to the start of individual Text Tones in Messages, Apple is continuing the steady improvement of iOS. While iOS 4.2 for iPhone and iPod touch is nowhere near as significant an update as iOS 4.2 for iPad, that's only because iPhone and iPod touch have enjoyed iOS 4 features since June. We'll update as soon as we find an official list from Apple.
iPhone 2G and iPod touch G1 (2007): not compatible/no update.iPhone 3G and iPod touch G2 (2008): No features that require higher processor or RAM.iPhone 3GS and iPod touch G3 (2009): No features requiring iPhone 4 or iPod touch 4-type hardware (i.e.iPhone 4, iPod touch 4 (2010): All features.IOS 4.2 is a free update for iPhone users and for iPod touch users.Ĭompatibility should be the same as with iOS 4. So, you can send any music to Airport express speakers, or video to the Apple TV (2010). Hey, we can dream.Īs we're sure you guessed by now, the major addition to the iPod app for iPhone (and Music and Video apps for iPod touch) is airplay. And since it's called AirPlay and not AirView, here's hoping Apple expands the functionality in the future to project game video onto the big TV screen, leaving iPhone and iPod touch as a full on multitouch game controller. Tap one and your video will switch from iPhone to TV. Tap it and you get a list of devices you can stream to. AirPlay compatible apps, when AirPlay compatible devices are present, will show the AirPlay icon as a button. It looks like a TV-style box with a triangle being inserted up into it. You can tell AirPlay is an option when its icon appears to the right of the volume slider.
Whether this is intentional or Apple simply ran out of time and didn't finish making public APIs for video is unknown but hopefully this will be expanded upon in a future update. Built-in apps like iPod, Video, and YouTube can stream, but unfortunately it looks like all other apps, including Apple's own Safari and all App Store apps are currently limited to audio-only.
AirPlay takes that to the next level, letting you stream video and pictures as well as music from iPad (or iPhone or iPod touch) and the new 2010 Apple TV. AirPlay is an evolution of Apple's AirTunes system that used to let you stream music between iTunes on Windows or Mac and Apple TV or Airport Express connected speakers.
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