Apple releases third iPhone 3.0 beta to developers
Apple Tuesday seeded developers with the third external build of the iPhone 3.0 SDK and operating system.
In order to get access to the 3.0 beta software you have to be a registered iPhone developer. As with the first and second iPhone 3.0 developer builds, Apple is still warning developers that MMS and tethering are not supported and should not be used.
According to Ars Technica the 229MB update for the iPhone 3G (build 7A280F) features a major change to the newly minted push notification system:
Apple has added separate types for the three notification methods: badge, text alert, and sound. Developers can register their apps for these different notification types individually for the needs of their users.
iPhone 3.0b3 also includes improvement to the XIB files created by Interface Builder 3.1, an update to Dashcode that allows the creation of iPhone-optimized Web applications and several other API changes.
The big question is what's changed on the iPhone itself. Stay tuned to the comments around the Web for more tips about what changed from beta 2 to beta 3.
- Beta 1 (7A238J) was released on 13 March
- Beta 2 (7A259G) was released on 31 March (18 days later)
- Beta 3 (7A280F) was released on 14 April (14 days later)