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iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 5 Rears Its Head
It has been barely more than a week since Apple distributed beta four for the iPhone, and now beta five has arrived. At first glance, it offers bug fixes and not a whole lot else.It has been barely more than a week since Apple distributed beta four for the iPhone, and now beta five has arrived. At first glance, it offers bug fixes and not a whole lot else.Beta 5 runs a tad smoother than beta 4 did. That's nearly all that there is to be said about the new version of iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 5, with two minor exceptions.
In previous betas, there was a settings screen to enable/disable MMS and a subject heading for SMS/MMS features. AT&T has not enabled MMS services for the iPhone yet, so it was a dead feature to begin with.
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Some folks had figured out how to hack the beta so that MMS was enabled. Well, that is no longer possible. Number of affected users: Just about no one.
Other than that, YouTube is slightly improved on the iPhone. Now, instead of defaulting to the low-rez version of videos, YouTube delivers the higher-resolution version that was previously reserved for delivery via Wi-Fi. It is a noticeable improvement.
For now, that's all there is to report.
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