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Apple Seeds New iPhone OS 2.0 Beta (5A240d), SDK Update (Beta 3)

Apple has seeded a new version of the iPhone 2.0 Beta OS for developers enrolled in the beta iPhone Developer Program. Also available today to all ADC members is an updated version of the iPhone SDK (Beta 3).

The updated iPhone beta firmware, version 5A240d, includes a number of fixes and new features centered on Exchange support, including the additional abilities of receiving and accepting meeting invitations, searching for contacts in the global address list, auto-complete email addresses in the global address list, and setting up an exchange account using Autodiscovery (Exchange 2007).

The final version of the firmware is expected in June as a free update for iPhone users and for a small fee for iPod Touch users.

Today's iPhone OS beta replaces the build originally seeded to developers, which incidentally had timed out today.

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50 months ago
The 3rd releases of the iPhone SDK and the 2.0 beta firmwares (for paying devs) are available for download on the iphone dev site now.
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50 months ago

The 3rd releases of the iPhone SDK and the 2.0 beta firmwares (for paying devs) are available for download on the iphone dev site now.


Any word on features besides bug/pink fixes?(Specifically in regards to better integration with IB)? ALSO: Really hopes it fixes stability issues. Really getting tired of 10810 errors.
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50 months ago
well i'm glad to see updates with new features.....looking forward to watching the features list continue to grow.
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50 months ago
They are moving at a furious pace!
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50 months ago
At this early point in the game, its counter-productive to get caught up in how many bugs/fixes Apple is putting out, but I'll note here that there is still a substantial bug list.

Of course, they got a couple of months to iron it all out.
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50 months ago
Awesome, Contacts search! Seriously, I got so many people with the same first name in my address book that it's getting ridiculous to scroll up and down. I'd love to have the little photo thumbnail next to the name, too
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50 months ago

Any word on features besides bug/pink fixes?(Specifically in regards to better integration with IB)? ALSO: Really hopes it fixes stability issues. Really getting tired of 10810 errors.


changes:
http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/releasenotes/Miscellaneous/RN-iPhoneBetaAPIDiffs/index.html
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50 months ago



The updated iPhone beta firmware, version 5A240d, includes a number of fixes and new features centered on Exchange support, including the additional abilities of receiving and accepting meeting invitations, searching for contacts in the global address list, auto-complete email addresses in the global address list, and setting up an exchange account using Autodiscovery (Exchange 2007).


That explains the spotlight icon in the contacts list that was shown at the SDK event.
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50 months ago
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50 months ago
New features are great...I hope that we keep seeing more of them. Global contact search is great, and very much needed my company has over 10,500 contacts in our global lists. I can't wail until June for the iPhone 2.0 update.
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