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hey guys today I'm here with the hands-on of iowa's 4.2.1 Inez has just been released I've had a little bit of time to go ahead and mess around with it and tested a little bit and ready to give you guys my full overview so of course 4.2.1 is not going to be a huge update yeah it's mostly just a lot of smaller things i've something a lot of it though is really catered towards the iPod Touch 4th generation in my opinion just because it has a lot of speed and stability improvements that we're kind of lacking in the previous 4.1 so let's go ahead and jump right on into what all of this new let's go ahead just open up the web browser and one of the biggest things is absolutely going to be air print and now air print is something very similar simple rather you can go ahead and print any web page just straight from Safari to your airprint-enabled printer now I do not actually have one of these printers so I actually can't vouch for how well it works although there are very few printers that are supported and I go ahead and kind of a little bit of hacking page to go ahead and enable some other printers but I haven't gotten into that so - I can't tell you over I can't show you how it works I'm so I'm go ahead just go look on this page and do keep in mind this works on you know pretty much any webpage don't worry you know obviously probably want to print out something a little bit better than this but to go ahead and enable it all you have to do is press down here and you know you get your standard things such as add bookmark etc well for now you have an option called print now in print this is pretty simple you know I'm gonna go ahead and click this obviously like I said I don't have any printers hooked up so normally you will go ahead and just select your own thinking why didn't you select how many copies you want and then you just click the print button very simple but it's a really cool idea to go ahead and allow you to go ahead and print web pages straight from your iPod touch your iphone and especially your iPad the next thing is airplay now airplay is a very very nice concept there's not a whole lot you can do with it right now however I definitely see layer on this is going to be a really nice feature basically what airplay does is it allows you to shoot music movies as well as photos from your iPod your iPhone or your iPad over to a connected device now right now pretty much the only thing that you can do this with is the Apple TV you can also go ahead and string music through an airport express to speakers but like I said Apple TVs to be the main way to do this so it's pretty simple you can just go ahead there's a button and a video go ahead and show it because there's not a whole lot to a point to it however airplay will definitely be very handy once there are a lot of the devices that it does support now let's go I move on to probably my favorite feature of 4.2.1 which is speed improvements so here's an iPod Touch 4th generation I just open the camera app and you can see boom already opened now I'm sure you know if you have an iPhone or an iPod Touch 4th generation you know that the camera app always takes very very long time to load and indeed everything is very quite very very fast so you know go ahead and just scroll through here through the Apple website you know safaris just as fast as ever you know I'm really impressed with how the speed improvements because especially with the iPod Touch 4th generation before hand there were a lot of there's some bugginess there's some lag especially there's a lot of lag when opening some applications however for the most part I've seen that is pretty much all been erased in 4.2.1 everything was run very nice and smoothly and then a small new feature is that the addition of a volume bar so as always you have you know when you double tap to enable your multitasking know through your open apps go ahead and you know I have a YouTube video I could be playing it but the cool thing is you can now go ahead and control your volume again not a huge deal I prefer to hear you use the button probably most of the time so it's definitely a nice little feature so that's it for my overview of iOS 4.2.1 it's a nice update especially if you have the iPad which of course it comes with all the iOS 4 features but for the iPhone the iPod touch not a huge deal airplay and air print are both nice however they're both fairly limited I mean airplay if you have an Apple TV that's great but otherwise there's not a whole lot you can do with it and same goes with air print unless you wanna get into hacking and everything unless you have a very few a small amount of printers that it does support you're not going to be able to use either so and not a huge deal however it's absolutely worth it from my point of view just for the speed and stability improvements but like I said my runs much faster everything seems quite a bit snappier which I am very very thankful for standard warning if you do jailbreak stay away from this there will be a jailbreak I'm sure very soon but as always if your jailbroken any update you will lose your jailbreak and you might not be able to get it back for a little while so you guys definitely keep that in mind