Apple today introduced iOS 4.3, the latest version of the world’s most advanced mobile operating system. New features in iOS 4.3 include faster Safari mobile browsing performance with the Nitro JavaScript engine; iTunes Home Sharing; enhancements to AirPlay®; the choice of using the iPad side switch to either lock the screen rotation or mute the audio; and the Personal Hotspot feature for sharing an iPhone 4 cellular data connection over Wi-Fi.
“With more than 160 million iOS devices worldwide, including over 100 million iPhones, the growth of the iOS platform has been unprecedented,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO, in the press release. “iOS 4.3 adds even more features to the world’s most advanced mobile operating system, across three blockbuster devices—iPad, iPhone and iPod touch—providing an ecosystem that offers customers an incredibly rich experience and developers unlimited opportunities.”
The Safari mobile browsing experience gets even better with iOS 4.3. The Nitro JavaScript engine that Apple pioneered on the desktop is now built into WebKit, the technology at the heart of Safari, and more than doubles the performance of JavaScript execution using just-in-time compilation. With the Nitro JavaScript engine, Safari provides an even better mobile browser experience working faster to support the interactivity of complex sites you visit on a daily basis.
New iTunes Home Sharing allows iOS 4.3 users to play music, movies and TV shows on an iPad, iPhone or iPod touch from their iTunes library on a Mac or PC over a local Wi-Fi network. With a simple tap you can enjoy all the media in your iTunes library wherever you are in your home. You can stream a movie from your Mac in one room to your iPad in another or stream an iTunes mix to your iPod touch from the office to the kitchen. With Home Sharing on your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch you’ve got your entire iTunes library in your hands wherever you are in your home.
iOS 4.3 includes enhancements to AirPlay, the breakthrough wireless technology that allows users to stream music, photos and video to Apple TV. With iOS 4.3 you can stream additional content including video from third party apps and web sites, videos from the Photos app and previews from the iTunes app to your TV.* AirPlay also allows you to bring photos to life on the TV screen by using one of the stunning new slideshow transitions, or shoot a video on your iPad 2, iPhone or iPod touch and stream it directly from the Photos app to Apple TV.
The new Personal Hotspot feature in iOS 4.3 lets you bring Wi-Fi with you anywhere you go, by allowing you to share an iPhone 4 cellular data connection with up to five devices in a combination of up to three Wi-Fi, three Bluetooth and one USB device.** Joining a Personal Hotspot is easy and once the feature is enabled a status bar displays how many devices are currently connected. Every connection is password protected and when not in use Personal Hotspot turns itself off to save battery life.
More than 10 billion apps have been downloaded from the revolutionary App Store℠ and more than 350,000 apps are available, including more than 65,000 native iPad apps, to consumers in 90 countries. Users of the more than 160 million iOS devices around the world can choose from an incredible range of apps in 20 categories, including games, business, news, sports, health, reference and travel.
iOS 4.3 will be available to iPad, iPhone and iPod touch users as a free software update on Friday, March 11. iOS 4.3 is compatible with iPad, iPad 2, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 (GSM model), plus third and fourth generation iPod touch. For more information please visit www.apple.com.
*AirPlay video requires second generation Apple TV running the latest software.
**Personal Hotspot requires supporting data plan. Customers should check with their carrier for availability.
Source: Apple Inc.
Home sharing FTW!!!
All that speed and not so much as a fourth interpreter 🙁
read forth interpreter
Forth has a pretty small footprint — mayhaps someone could write one as an app…
You have a PDF viewer – as close to a forth interpreter as you can get…
Somebody needs to find out when iOS 4.3 will be available for the Verizon iPhone 4. The slide from Steve’s presentation only mentioned that 4.2 will be available on the GSM iPhone for March 11.
“Somebody needs to find out when iOS 4.3 will be available for the Verizon iPhone 4.”
The Verizon phone is a second cousin. You’ll get things when you’ll get things handed down. There’s a reason Verizon covers the outbacks of the US. 😉 But, in all seriousness, CDMA sucks for anything but voice, all things considered, and the great and noisome outside world is basically GSM.
When will iOS 4.3 be available for the Verizon iPhone?
I’m sure Verizon iPhone will get the new features soon enough. It took Apple some time to harmonize iOS between the iPhone and iPad. It’ll take some time to get the Verizon software there too.
Sucks that the hot-spotting is contingent upon a plan. Data is data, I pay for UNLIMITED data.
I should be able to use it when I need to without a low monthly extortion fee.
I wonder if it is ad-hoc or institutional mode (AP) mode?
I’d add that droid users can tether right now without paying extra for a plan pretty darn easily.
Sure, if they Root their device, like i did….
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2011/02/att-hotspot-tethering/
http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/06/verizon-confirms-droid-tethering-cost-will-ask-subscribers-to-d/
Old links but the same msg.
Android users are not tethering legitimately then. and you can jailbreak an iphone to get tethering also at no cost, but again… not legitimately.
the question comes down to Tethering for $20 a month with an iPhone/iPad combo
or:
http://gigaom.com/apple/wi-fi-ipad-with-verizon-mifi-vs-ipad-3g-on-att/
more money per month for just 3G iPad.
$25 for 2Gb, or my Unlimited Data iPhone plan with $20 tethering to add 2Gb tethered. Plus i get a 15-20% discount on my AT&T bill (depending on the services)
iPhone 3G… out of the loop.
Yeah that sucks!! And another thing: Why can’t I have Snow Leopard on my iMac G5 dammit!!
Snow Leopard optimizes the OS. That means you need an Intel processor. Apple were actually incredibly generous keeping PPC compatibility in Mac OS X. ALL new Mac hardware when Intel in 2006. Mac OS X stayed compatible with PPC for over 4 years. Apple used to cut off hardware that was more than 18 months old. Keep that in mind and be happy you’ve got Leopard.
Wonder how many apps this will break?
No changes to the Alert system. Wonder if Apple has plans for a more manageable system soon.
Hear hear.
Does anyone know why MDN removed this morning’s post announcing :
apple-reveals-new-trademark-symbol ???
My guess is because it was quickly realized that it is just the Ping symbol.
Still no printing. As long as printing is shackled to HP, no printing is possible. What ever happened to BlueTooth?
Printopia or one of many other options….
I print all the time to my Brother color laser.
What is the difference between the ‘Personal Hotspot’ feature announced for the 4.3, and the original tethering functionality, available since iOS 3 (iPhone 3GS)? Many iPhones sold through various carriers around the world had this feature for almost two years. What is different now?
After a quick trip to Google, here’s the difference. Tethering only works (worked) via USB and Bluetooth (i.e. single tethered device). It wasn’t limited to 3GS at the time — it was a feature of iOS 3, which worked with all prior iPhone models.
Jailbreak your iPhone, download MyWi and you will have a personal hotspot for free as long as you have unlimited data…
…Until your carrier catches you. Then you no longer have unlimited data…
although i have to admit, AT&T has NOT yet done that to anyone… the ability for them to drop me for doing so, keeps me from doing this.
I saw some guy jailbroke his iPhone 4, and using mywi he tethered 12.7gb in a month… and AT&T did nothing.
granted, if i were to do the same i’d be dropped.
someone said they they cant tell the difference between Tether, and normal use… but i will not test that theory.
Talk about Fragmentation! It only works on certain iPhones, cerrtain features are not available on older models and it also doesn’t work with Verizon iPhones! To all the iHeads… This is just as bad if not worse than Google because Apple makes all these products unlike several different cell companies. They don’t support their own Eco system. SAD. Just saying! 😉
and then we have trolls like this that dont understand what they are talking about.
he is right.
There are technical limitation on the older phones that would not support the advanced feature sets. Components that were expensive back then and sizes that were too large did not allow including them in the older form factor. So by your thinking a company like Apple should not offer advances if they won’t work with older products? Seems kind of silly.
Your not being serious, right? Zune Tang imitation? You are stretching logic to the brink in a snarky attempt at cleverness. Why don’t you also add that iOS still doesn’t do Flash?
Funny: There’s a Nexus S Android mobile phone ad that popped up before this article. Kind of out of place. Really outbid place actually.