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Apple releases iOS 4.2 beta 3 to developers

By | October 13, 2010, 6:00am PDT

Apple released iOS 4.2 beta 3 to developers yesterday. Reports from around the Web indicate that beta 3 improves performance, fixes bugs, and adds some small new features, including:

  • New tones for SMS
  • iPad: Enable/Disable alert sounds for New Mail, Sent Mail, Calendar Alerts, Lock Sounds, Keyboard Clicks
  • Minor graphical changes

However, one of 4.2’s most exciting features has been removed from the latest beta. MacStories was first to notice that Apple removed AirPlay support in the native YouTube app on iOS 4.2 Beta 3. There’s been no word on the extent of AirPlay’s removal or the reasons why Apple did it.

I suspect that its removal is only temporary. AirPlay – which allows you to stream music through your house wirelessly – is a key new feature (along with printing) of iOS 4.2 and one that Steve Jobs demo’d at the company’s annual September iPod event.

It should be noted that Apple makes it easy to enroll as a developer and receive access to these early builds.

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Jason O'Grady is a journalist and author specializing in mobile technology. He has published six books on Apple and mobile gadgets and his PowerPage blog has been publishing for over 15 years.

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Jason D. O'Grady is the creator and editor of O'Grady's PowerPage, which has been publishing mobile technology news since 1995. He maintains an advertising relationship with the following legacy advertisers on the PowerPage:

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Jason D. O'Grady

Jason D. O'Grady developed an affinity for Apple computers after using the original Lisa, and this affinity turned into a bona-fide obsession when he got the original 128 KB Macintosh in 1984.

He started writing one of the first Web sites about Apple (O'Grady's PowerPage) in 1995 and is considered to be one of the fathers of blogging. He has been a frequent speaker at the Macworld Expo conference and a member of the conference faculty. He also co-founded the first dedicated PowerBook User Group (PPUG) in the United States.

After winning a major legal battle with Apple in 2006, he set the precedent that independent journalists are entitled to the same protections under the First Amendment as members of the mainstream media.

O'Grady is the author of The Nexus One Pocket Guide, The Droid Pocket Guide, The Google Phone Pocket Guide, and The Garmin nuvi Pocket Guide (Peachpit Press), the author of Corporations That Changed the World: Apple Inc. (Greenwood Press), and a contributor to The Mac Bible (Peachpit Press). In addition, he has contributed to numerous Mac publications over the years, including MacWEEK, Macworld, and MacPower (Japan).

When he's not writing about Apple for ZDNet at The Apple Core, he enjoys spending time with his family in New Jersey.

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RE: Apple releases iOS 4.2 beta 3 to developers
mrtuba9 13th Oct 2010
What about battery time for iPod Touch 2G owners?
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RE: Apple releases iOS 4.2 beta 3 to developers
paulswift 14th Oct 2010
Has it fixed the Alarm clock bug?

Its affecting us in Australia, our counterparts in New Zealand, and a few folk in Indiana?
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RE: Apple releases iOS 4.2 beta 3 to developers
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@paulswift That's supposed to be coming in 4.1.1.
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