Comments on: iPhone OS 3.0 Release Soon, No More Betas?

By: patrickj

patrickj — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:05:30 +0000

Alicia – I think we all know that feeling (even those of us messing with the betas) – and think we'll all know when we expect new goodies come next Monday.

Entaum – I've definitely seen some of the form-filling weirdness in Safari , and some general lockups, though rarely when using the Phone app – had not noticed the other two though – 3G one sounds especially nasty …

By: Entaum

Entaum — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:25:12 +0000

Well I agree with you on the problems and have witnessed a few more that are quite nagging:
– 3G loss bug is still there but less frequent (if you pass through a no-signal area and return you loose 3G/Edge permanently even when you strat getting stron cell signal. Reset fixes this)
– YouTube over Wifi STILL not fixed! Ever noticed how SLOW YouTube loads over wifi when compared to your desktop or 3G? The issue only happens with G networks, try setting your wifi router to B-Only mode and watch how it gets way faster than on G mode!
– Form filling on safari is messed up. When you click on it, the page centers on whole a different area of the page hidding the form completely. Simple to fix I guess but anoying….
– General lockups specially during calls where you can't hang-up… probably related to the memory leaks.

By: Alicia

Alicia — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:50:27 +0000

Oh God this thing cannot come soon enough. I am SO DUE for something new from Apple you would not believe.

Cheers,
Alicia

By: patrickj

patrickj — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:26:09 +0000

psylichon – my bad on the force quit mention – yes, there is the new method for doing it, will update the post to that effect.

And yeah, the memory leaks are, as I said, the worst I've ever seen on the iPhone – and they have seemed to get worse in the last couple betas, not a great omen.

As for the account here, you do, but I have changed the comments system used on the site (a couple times now). This has been a 'not fun' process to say the least, but I hope it will evntuall lead to having a better and more useful system – basically, you need to sign up with Intense Debate in order to then have one first comment approved and then have subsequent ones sail through without moderation – see this post for details:
http://tinyurl.com/r44gvq
Sorry for the inconvenience on this …

By: psylichon

psylichon — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:15:25 +0000

You keep referring to lack of force-quit, but you know about the new method, right? To me, that's just poor communication on their part… the feature is still there, just implemented differently.

The worst part about the beta5 is the memory leaks. They slow the phone down to a crawl way too often, and it simply didn't do that for me on beta3… even when Free Memory was showing VERY low memory (and often), it still ran smoothly. I hope they get that feeling back.

And why don't I have an account here anymore??