I am thinking about installing the iPhone 3.0 beta OS on my iPhone, but it is my personal cell phone.
Are there any limitations in the beta OS that would affect the phone’s normal usage?
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I am thinking about installing the iPhone 3.0 beta OS on my iPhone, but it is my personal cell phone.
Are there any limitations in the beta OS that would affect the phone’s normal usage?
My advice – don’t do it. Only even consider 3.0 Beta on a brickable development device. Here’s a few reasons why:
It’s Beta in the traditional sense (not the Google sense) so it’s not done yet. It’s testable, sure, but not all the new features are complete or functioning right and it’s all subject to change.
Officially it’s a one way upgrade. You can’t go back. Now clever hackers have figured out difficult ways to downgrade and you may be able to work through it. Or not.
Not all software in the App Store is ready to run on 3.0. There seems to be some bugs in MediaPlayer at the least. In other words, it’s not completely backward compatible yet. So reports are that Pandora, TED, Facebook and other popular apps are crashing.
And finally, there will be more beta releases – it’s underdevelopment. So be prepared to spend time with more upgrades, bug reports, and potentially a dead device. In the 2.0 beta cycle there was a period of time where the beta expired and there was no new release available shutting down devices for a bit.
So yeah, don’t upgrade your only device to 3.0 unless you love skating away on the thin ice of a new OS.
All that said, I’m in the dev program and have 3.0 on a Touch and it’s slick. It will make many many happy developers and ever more happy customers. And I’ve only scratched the surface of the new SDK.