During yesterday’s event, Steve Job has presented the new features on the iOS 4.2, to be launched in November. The first new feature is the possibility of printing documents through network-configured printers with the Print Center feature.

AirPlay was also introduced, which allows users to share pictures, video and songs through Wi-Fi. It will be possible, for example, to listen to songs that aren’t physically present on the device, but on network systems.

The iPad will also now have the possibility of storing the applications in folders and the multitasking will be finally introduced. The update will be free for the iPod touch, iPhone and iPad platforms.

Steve Jobs and Apple have presented a series of new features and products during yesterday’s event. One of them i the new iOS 4.1, the new version of Apple’s mobile OS. This new version includes a long list of bug fixes, promising a more stable OS with some new features.

The first new feature would be the High Dynamic Range photos feature, that allows the device to overlap three different pictures, taken with different lighting. The software then adds those images, selecting the best lighting level for each one of the picture’s zones, so no area is too dark or too light.

The other new feature is Game Center, that allows users to play multiplayer games. Game Center automatically chooses the players in order to associate them with the same level.

Other new features include HD video upload through Wi-Fi, and the download of TV shows directly on the mobile device.

The article is labeled as a rumor, so it should be treated as such. The guys from iLounge have received rumors of a bunch of new products on Apple’s 2010/2011 product lineup, using the new iOS 4 software. According to the rumors, these products should be launched by Spring 2011:

- New iPods: apparently these new iPods would be launched by the end of September. One iPod nano, a new iPod Touch and a third device that is still unknown. This mysterious iPod could use the small 1.7″ touchscreen display that Apple has been manufacturing since 2009;

- New iPads: according to the rumors, a new 7″ iPad is practically finished and should be announced by the end of the year or beginning of 2011. Another rumor concerns a 5.6″ version but no details just yet.

- iPhone 5 without antenna problems: This rumor seems more impossible than the others, simply because it would be hard for Apple to project and manufacture a completely new hardware design for the iPhone that doesn’t have antenna issues, unless the whole process has been started already, or requires small changes to the hardware.

- New iPhone 4 bumpers: A new series of bumpers should be launched soon, according to those rumors. The first original ones had a harder plastic material than the current ones being sold, and since the bumpers are given for free to iPhone 4 users until September, Apple’s manufacturing cheaper models to be distributed after September.

Apple has just released the beta 3 version of their iOS 4.1 to developers. The build is the 8B5097d, and has 599 Mb in its iPhone 4 version (only 383 Mb for the iPhone 3GS).

The new version comes together with a new SDK version as well. So far the changes seem very few compared to the Beta 2, and it’s still not sure whether the proximity sensor bug has been fixed or not.

According to many, Apple’s choice of renaming the iPhone OS in iOS would have been based on the idea of extending the OS to new devices, including the Apple TV.

According some sources from Nick Bilton, that writes on the Bits blog for the New York Times online, Apple would have started working on the Apple TV’s software. It seems that the company is interested not only in redesigning the software, using iOS as the base, but also in developing a completely new and cheaper hardware.

It seems that Apple has recently hired interface experts that had previous experience on the field. Also, according to an ex-employee, a big part of Apple’s future research on Apple TV was given to a completely new team.

If Apple TV would indeed be based on iOS, it would be easy to enhance it with ad-hoc applications such as Netflix or ABC. If Apple really means to do this, they need to be quick, or the competition with Google TV would prove harder than expected.

During the keynote where the iPhone OS 4 was presented, renamed iOS 4, Steve JObs affirmed that the new firmware would be available for the iPhone and iPod Touch during Summer, while for the iPad it would be needed to wait until Fall.

Apple has communicated, however, that the first iAD interactive ads will not be reaching the iPad before the first release of iOS 4 for that device, scheduled for November. The new APIs introduced on the iOS 4 are indeed necessary in order to manage the iAd platform. So more likely, no iOS 4 on the iPad until November.