News - Apple's iPhone OS 3.0 now available for public consumption

[crossy]

Originally Posted by Infinite

Charging £5.99 for an OS update is a joke on my iPod Touch.

Especially the part about finally being able to use the built-in bluetooth, it isnt like they added more hardware or a bluetooth adaptor, it was already there but they just didnt turn it on, then a year later charging £6 for you to use it is like robbery. (angry face)

http://www.apple.com/uk/ipodtouch/softwareupdate.html

Well if the experience with my 1st Gen Touch is anything to go by, then I'd give the v3.0 firmware upgrade a very wide berth. I bought it, downloaded it and ended up with a bricked iPod when I applied it.

Luckily - after wasting a heck of a lot of time trying to get it back - I managed to find an earlier restore point on my main iTunes host and was able to use that to get it back to a usable state.

Heck, I even tried booking an appointment with a "Genius" at the local Apple Store, only to be told that there were no appointments available - fat lot of good then!

I even retried the download and update - but ended up having to use my earlier restore point again, when the iPod got bricked again (and this isn't a jailbroken iPod or anything else non-standard). So don't ask me to say anything polite about Apple at the moment...

Bob

[TooNice]

Is the upgrade straightforward without need to reinstall everything? For the next 6 weeks or so, I can't afford anything on my iPhone to go wrong (simply because it has a few tools I use every day for my course). Cut and paste would be kind of handy, but not worth spending hours of fixing anything going wrong.