• By John Herrman
    May 7, 2009 4:22 AM 35,604
    more about

    #iphoneos30beta5

    iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 5 Is Out Now
    read more: #iphonebeta, #iphoneos30beta5, #iphone, #iphoneos, #iphoneosbeta, #apple, #beta5, #iphonebeta5, #mms, #iphonemms, #iphoneyoutube, #youtube, #youtubeapp, #tethering, #iphonetethering

    iPhone Beta 5 Odds and Ends: No More MMS, Better YouTube?

    The official script may have minimized it as a maintenance release, but some users are finding out that iPhone Beta 5 contains more than bugfixes. So far: YouTube's improved, and hacked MMS is no more.

    The guys at winandmac say they've noticed a change in the YouTube app's stream handling. Now, instead of defaulting to the low-res OTA version of a YouTube video when connected via 3G, the app plays the high-res version previously reserved for Wi-Fi.

    Meanwhile, in our comments and over at the iPhone Blog, AT&T-bound Beta 5 users are reporting that the simple MMS stopgap hack is no longer possible.

    It's only been few hours since Beta 5 burst forth into this world, naked and screaming, so more changes are bound to bubble up to the surface—there are already rumblings that new anti-tethering measures have been implemented, but this hasn't been confirmed (and may have more to do with new security features in iTunes 8.2 than iPhone OS). [winandmac and the iPhone Blog]


    Send an email to John Herrman, the author of this post, at jherrman@gizmodo.com.