Come Back 3.0, All Is Forgiven
I told you I was a flip-flopper, lasting only 48 hours in resisting the temptation to try out the iPhone OS 3.0 beta. Then I downgraded that flip-flop “ and believe it or not that downgrade also lasted all of 48 hours. Being on a jailbroken 2.2.1 firmware was less satisfactory than the 3.0 beta for me “ so I swapped back to 3.0 this past Saturday while watching some great NCAA hoops.
This, of course, has given me great practice on memorizing my WiFi network ‘s key, the Google Sync server address, Gmail ‘s incoming and outgoing IMAP server addresses, and my Friendfeed remote key. And fantastic practice at spending ages re-arranging apps and home screens to make them ‘work for me ‘ after each restore.
Despite all that fun stuff, I ‘m glad to be back on 3.0. Even with its typical beta bugs and some noticeable lag in places, I find it nicer to work with now “ and I really did miss Spotlight search and copy/ paste as soon as I downgraded.
My timing this time round seems good as well “ as a new beta version has been released today (yesterday really by now). I ‘ve just installed it and I ‘m writing this while waiting on its lengthy first sync with iTunes. So I ‘ll have some thoughts on iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 2 a little later on.
Oh, just noticed – they really did change the default icon arrangement on Home screen 1.
LOL-think of it as a chance to hone your memory skills
yeah, I just upgraded mine to beta 2.. much much snappier.. even in typing..
and my photos can now be moved around when they are 'blown up'
even after doing my restore.. my icons were totally all over the place..
After using it for the night I am MUCH happier with the new Firmware. The old one was killing me
ginalee – yeah, they must be getting real sharp by now
Critter – I'm seeing the 'snappier' effect too and liking it lots. icons / home screens = yuck – how effin' stupid is this?
J – dude, nice to see you here – and nice to hear you're happy with the new firmware