The new version of Apple’s mobile platform, iOS 4.2, is available today for the iPad, iPhone & iPod touch.
This version is especially important for iPad owners, as it brings over 100 new features from the last three version of iOS to that device, most important among them being support for multitasking. The feature enables users to keep several apps open at the same time and switch between them almost instantly, while preserving iPad’s battery life (which Apple refers to as “legendary”).
Other new features for the iPad include the app folders, unified inbox, and the Game Center, and AirPlay and AirPrint.
Apple also said that iOS has 125 million users around the world, while its App Store now has more than 300,000 apps, 40,000 of them being native iPad applications.
See the full list of improvements in iOS 4.2 here.
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