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iOS 5 Beta Available for Devs, First Hands On, and Gallery

milo said:
Honestly, that's way more exciting to me than any of the other news about iTunes. But they need to get their act together on the beta release, they have links up for the beta but they just lead to the old version, and they all refer to the beta as 10.3 instead of 10.5.

Can anyone provide a working link to the new iTunes?
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The public beta is 10.3, the 10.5 beta is for registered developers only and is needed to activate iOS 5
 
jyan2 said:
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_3_3 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.17.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Mobile/8J2 Safari/6533.18.5)

I'm just going to take a guess, but I think Apple is holding out on the release because they want to release both iOS 5 and a new iPhone at about the same time. Of course, along with iCloud too. Mind as well make a nice, seamless transition into it all, the whole package. :)
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The last time they released a cloud service and a new iPhone at the same time it was an unmitigated disaster. I don't think they're eager to repeat the most embarrassing moment in Apple history.
 
Can someone who has the beta test the "accessory connected" message that locks the iPod.app?

Thanks in advance.
 
Phil A. said:
The public beta is 10.3, the 10.5 beta is for registered developers only and is needed to activate iOS 5
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Thanks for the clarification. Apple still needs to get their act together and fix the link for the public release - anyone able to get it yet?
 
RE: all the people who are not developers who want to upgrade to the beta,

There is a reason they call it a beta. There will be bugs. it will crash some of your current applications and it will probably make you want to take your phone to the skeet range. If you are going to update your iPhone, don't update the one you use every day. Updates are for testing and development iPhones.

At a minimum, wait for the second or third update.
 
e-coli said:
The last time they released a cloud service and a new iPhone at the same time it was an unmitigated disaster. I don't think they're eager to repeat the most embarrassing moment in Apple history.
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Guessing they will slowly roll out parts of iCloud
 
I'm wondering if anything is severely broken, or if it's safe to install.
 
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I have a developer friend who gave me access to his iConnect.apple account. I need to get my phone replaced under warranty before I can register it, as the power button is broken. With my replacement iPhone, can I jailbreak 4.3.3, save SHSH blobs, go to iOS 5, and if I don't like it, use TU to do the SHSH server thing, and go back to 4.3.3?
 
CrazyRussian540 said:
Question to someone who has access to iOS5 beta.

Can you disable all that twitter integration? I don't use twitter, I see no need to use twitter, and I won't use twitter. I really down want all those twit buttons cluttering all my screens.
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Yep, if Twitter isn't enabled (or rather: downloaded), you won't get the buttons all over the place.
 
RalfTheDog said:
RE: all the people who are not developers who want to upgrade to the beta,

There is a reason they call it a beta. There will be bugs. it will crash some of your current applications and it will probably make you want to take your phone to the skeet range. If you are going to update your iPhone, don't update the one you use every day. Updates are for testing and development iPhones.

At a minimum, wait for the second or third update.
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This is what I was told about Lion. I still updated to Lion, and I have loved every minute of it (except for Skype not working, Chrome always crashing, and flash getting screwed up).
 
Ability to create keyboard shortcuts (autotext) to replace custom phrases.

Yay! So awesome to get this feature.
 
AlphaDogg said:
This is what I was told about Lion. I still updated to Lion, and I have loved every minute of it (except for Skype not working, Chrome always crashing, and flash getting screwed up).
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+1. Betas are for anyone who can handle dealing with bugs.
 
I'm not a developer, but am considering installing the beta because I just can't wait until Fall for some non-annoying notifications. A couple questions:

1. Is this a terrible idea?

2. To someone with the beta installed, will I still be able to use my MobileMe account for mail, syncing, etc. or has this been stripped because MobileMe is being replaced?

Many thanks!
 
JayDH said:
I'm not a developer, but am considering installing the beta because I just can't wait until Fall for some non-annoying notifications. A couple questions:

1. Is this a terrible idea?

2. To someone with the beta installed, will I still be able to use my MobileMe account for mail, syncing, etc. or has this been stripped because MobileMe is being replaced?

Many thanks!
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1. You can expect a few bugs... If you are okay with that, you should be fine. However, I did have one time a year or two ago that when I installed the beta, it bricked my phone until the public version came out. I would only do it if you have a backup available

2. You can still use mobile me
 
If I use this with my iPad 2 wifi version can I go back to iOS 4 in case I don't like it?

There's no baseband as far as I know on iPad 2.
 
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