Beta 4 is expected to come out in coming week, hope it will be better and faster.
First impression of beta 3, the moment it is installed on my iPhone, that it is significantly faster than 2.2.1. However, I may be subjective as my iPhone 2.2.1 was jail broken and with all sorts of apps from the unofficial community, such as SwirlyMMS, MySMS, etc.
IPhone 3.0 beta 3 gives me a good reason why I need jailbreak no more. SMS and MMS are now a standard application in one, i.e. you send SMS and MMS from the same app, which is what I wanted all these while.
By typing an email address instead of a phone number, or clicking on camera icon on the left of your message input windows, iPhone knows that you wanted to send a MMS instead of SMS. This is quite a life saving as user need not go to a separate app to do either one messaging.
It will be good, if Apple were to integrate SMS, MMS, Twitter, Facebook, and other IM functionalities into one app, eliminating the need to flip back and fort relevant app for specific function, which essentially doing the same thing, i.e. messaging.
Another improvement is global search function, which again works well for me. I was relying on an app called SEARCH to perform similar function, search content within iPhone.
Global search does not only search messages, it does contacts, emails, podcasts, or rather all Apple bundled applications, including applications itself. This means if you have plenty of apps installed on your iPhone, one common problem is that you need to constantly swiping left or right to look for the app you wanted. Global search simplified the operation by just needed to type part of the app's name, viola, it will then listed, and you can launch the app by touching the icon.
Simplifying user interactions and enhancing functionality is not mutually exclusive and heading into opposite direction. Global search is a good example of such scenario.
I will write more later..
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