Recently, Apple released beta 2 of the iPhone 3 firmware for developers. This brings many new features and overall performance improvements for iPhone. If you are not a developer but want to try out iPhone 3.0 firmware (although it is still in beta and care is advised), here are the links to download and install it.
iPhone 3.0 beta 2 firmware download links
The iPhone 3.0 beta 2 is labeled and known as build 7A259. Different versions of the firmware are available for different versions of iPhone and iPod Touch, so pick the right download links for the iPhone 3 beta 2 firmware.
iPhone 3G
http://tinyurl.com/sizlopedia-iphone3g-beta2-p1
http://tinyurl.com/sizlopedia-iphone3g-beta2-p2
http://tinyurl.com/sizlopedia-iphone3g-beta2-p3
iPhone 2G
http://tinyurl.com/sizlopedia-iphone2g-beta2-p1
http://tinyurl.com/sizlopedia-iphone2g-beta2-p2
http://tinyurl.com/sizlopedia-iphone2g-beta2-p3
iPod Touch 2G
http://tinyurl.com/sizlopedia-ipod2g-beta2-p1
http://tinyurl.com/sizlopedia-ipod2g-beta2-p2
http://tinyurl.com/sizlopedia-ipod2g-beta2-p3ADVERTISEMENT
iPod Touch 1G
http://tinyurl.com/sizlopedia-ipod1g-beta2-p1
http://tinyurl.com/sizlopedia-ipod1g-beta2-p2
http://tinyurl.com/sizlopedia-ipod1g-beta2-p3
The Megashare / Rapidshare URls to the firmware downloads have not been hyperlinked to the pages for obvious (legal) reasons – hope you will bear with us. The links above are for build 7A259.
The firmware is available in parts, so you should use a zip software like IZArc to download, extract and join the files.
To avoid waiting time for the downloads (which are at Rapidshare), you can use Skipscreen Firefox addon.
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