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I'm considering getting into the developers program and thus downloading the 3.0 beta. My question is, my iPhone is my main phone, will having 3.0 limit its usability or hamper the battery life or anything else like that? I need the phone to work, and I can't have things crashing and my battery life being fubar until the final release!

Thanks.

I'm running 3.0 on my only, 3G iPhone. I also LOVE beta releases and roadtesting. Testing gives an added investment to the OS by being actively involved.

My thoughts after a couple days?

The OS lags a tad. The landscape keyboard alone is worth it! Call quality and signal strength remain the same. Battery life is the same. Internet works fine, maybe a tad quicker. Initially, my VM was broken but the iPhone prompted to reset my password and all is good now. Sounds all work fine. Spotlight runs very well. I like the multi screen built into stocks. I still can't figure out a way to add gold though. Weather still sucks for the native app. More options on the Notes app, please! Powering down takes a few seconds longer. Camera is quicker. I like the Messages icon/hub. MMS, as reported, is down. Typing is laggy.

I have not tried to Copy and Paste. It frightens me.

Major bugs:

You Tube will not connect.

When emailing a page off the WWW the process will email, complete with both distinctive sounds that tells you it has emailed AND finished emailing. Immediately after this process ends your page is now checkered and when you type a web address into the bar it does not display. It stays blank, visually, because the iPhone itself does read it. You just can't see the address in the bar. The Internet will not connect again. The only way I've found to reconnect is to shut the iPhone off and power it back up.

Future thoughts:

After running around inside 3.0 for a few days? Video WILL come in the summer. iChat WILL come in the summer. A new SIGNIFICANTLY better hardware revision will drop. And multitasking will also arrive. Just my gut feeling on these, based on what I've been using, playing with, roadtesting and having fun with.

Exciting times!
 
The landscape keyboard alone is worth it!

:)

Can anyone compare the lag speed of BETA 3.0 to a 2.2.1 Jailbroken iPhone? I live on landscape texting but the lag is killing me on my jailbroken phone! I can't wait for them to release the real non-laggy 3.0!
 
Troubles

1. I've lost my sound in ipod, radio stations, VM but now it is back
2. Can't sync my iPhone bt headphone that I use every day (haven't figured that one out yet)
3. Keyboard is laggy some keys stick and then release
4. Some apps I've purchased just crash (one tap dial) Testing as we speak all others
5. YT started then froze


All reported to apple
 
Based on my experience, it's livable, but far from ideal. Using 2.2.1 again is a breath of fresh air. That said, it's not as bad as it could be. It's definitely usable, but it's not something I personally want to have on my main phone until it's really ready to go.
 
I am very happy with 3.0

Everything that I use works. And the AD2P is worth it in my book. No more wires! I'm really enjoying it. yeah its kind of buggy, but thats life with Beta. I'm excited to keep testing and seeing how things evolve. :D
 
Found the problem!

after examining every single setting in a futile attempt to get my iPod app in working order, i noticed that the stats on my iPhone were zero songs, zero movies. somewhere along the line, my music database on my iphone must've become corrupted. (this probably happened when the phone app crashed mid call, ipod app started to initialize and then the whole phone crashed)

I'm about to restore it as a new device, i've heard that it makes everything a bit more snappy.
 
I have a (Well 2, actually) spare iPhones that I put 3.0 on last night, so if it was bad, than I wouldn't have to deal with it. So far it's like everyone is saying: buggy. But hell, what do you expect? It's a beta. All betas are like that.:rolleyes:
 
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