Apple Releases iOS 4.3 Update

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Apple Releases iOS 4.3 Update
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Posted by: Glenn

Apple has released the iOS 4.3 update via iTunes for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. According to the company, this update contains new features and improvements, including the following:

Personal Hotspot
- Share iPhone 4 cellular data with up to 5 devices (combination of up to 3 Wi-Fi, 3 Bluetooth, and 1 USB)

iTunes Home Sharing
- Play music, movies, and TV shows from a shared iTunes library on a Mac or PC (requires iTunes 10.2)

New AirPlay features
- Play videos from the Photos app including the Camera Roll album, iTunes previews, enabled third-party apps and websites on Apple TV
- Play slideshows from Photos on Apple TV using transitions available on Apple TV

HD video out using the Apple Digital AV Adapter
- View 720p HD videos from Videos app, iPod app, Photos, YouTube, Safari, Keynote, and enabled third-party apps on an HDMI display

Ping features
- Push notifications for comments and follow requests.
- Post and Like songs directly from the Now Playing screen.
- Parental controls.

New Settings
- Messages setting for number of times to repeat an alert.
- iPad side switch setting to lock screen rotation or mute audio notifications and sound effects.

Other fixes and improvements-
- Faster Safari performance with Apple Nitro JavaScript engine.
- Single tap conference call dialing with a pause to send a passcode.
- Bug fixes.



http://www.123macmini.com/news/story/1599.html

[WheelSpinners]

Safari doesn't seem faster at all to me.

[curt]

[Ray Finkle]

So it won't matter if you have java turned off? I've had Java turned off for months and forgot about it. Apparently I don't need it.

[caulktel]

I will say that Safari seems faster, but this update kind of irritates me more than anything because of them, (Apple and AT&T), finally giving us what they promised in the first place with the personal hotspot feature. Now AT&T is wanting to charge me for the privilege of using the bandwidth that I already paid for that mostly goes to waste every month. I have the 2GB per month plan and rarely use more that 200-500MB of that 2GB so the hotspot feature would allow me to actually use more of what I'm paying for anyway by being able to connect my laptop to it, not more of AT&T's bandwidth. So that being said, I'm not too impressed with this update on my iPhone.
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Mac Mini G4 1.25GHz 1gb RAM 120gb HD
Macbook Pro 13 inch late October 2009 4GB Ram 160GB HD
iPhone 4S 16GB

[cheef]

Hotspot is fantastic if you need that sort of service, but wow, does it kill battery, and fast.

I've never seen such a dramatic battery loss on an iPhone by enabling and using a feature.
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iPhone 4 16GB
Mac mini 2.0GHz, 4GB
Mac mini 2.4GHz, 4GB
iMac 27" i5 2.66GHz, 12GB
MacBook Air 11" 1.4GHz, 4GB

[caulktel]

I used the tethering app when I had my 2G iPhone jailbroke and it worked well except that Edge is so slow it was almost useless. It didn't kill the battery too much but 3G probably would because you're moving so much more data. So you are right, I'm not sure it would be worth it anyway but I sure like to complain about it.
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Mac Mini 2.3 GHz Intel Core i5, 8GB RAM 500GB HD
Mac Mini G4 1.25GHz 1gb RAM 120gb HD
Macbook Pro 13 inch late October 2009 4GB Ram 160GB HD
iPhone 4S 16GB