Apple releasing iOS 4.3 beta 3 today; build 8F5166b?

By on Feb 1, 2011 at 7:59 AM
Exclusive February 1, 2011

One of our Apple sources has just let us know that the company’s iOS 4.3 rampage isn’t slowing down. We have been told there will be yet another beta build posted for developers, wearing the build number 8F5166b, at some point today. This would be the third build of iOS 4.3 in just three weeks… perhaps signaling how quick the company is moving to get point-upgrade finalized.

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  • Midi45

    Until it offers Flash player, widgets and custom ROMS iOS is completely worthless to the world.

    • Bane21

      And that is completely fine with some people, not everyone wants to “hack” and customize their phone. Stop being a fanboy.

    • Anonymous

      Yup, because thats the one thing the world needs: poor battery performance from flash and shitty skins on ios, don’t you hear every reviewer complain about how they want stock roms on android phones? widgets are something that would be nice to have, but the lack of them does not mean the world turns their back and considers this worthless.

    • Anonymous

      So worthless in fact that during the last three months they sold roughly 34 million devices all running iOS. When will Apple get a clue about their business? Honestly, don’t they understand that if iOS was open like Android they could have had revenues of $8.8 Billion like Google instead of the $26.74 Billion in revenues that they did have. Stupid company! /S

      If I were you, I would send Apple a cover letter and resume immediately because clearly you understand running a business better than they do.

      4.2% of the cell phone market
      51% of all available profits

      • Markus

        Apple’s goal is not to sell the most phones.

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BHMB52ZFMATI5KS7D4JT6UU7NA Eric W

      It’s not worthless to me, but I guess I am not “the world”

    • JohnPA2006

      Here is my opinion, take it with a grain of salt.
      I’ve been able to run flash for the last year on my OG Droid and guess what, flash still stinks.
      Anytime a site has flash content that loaded it makes the whole page very laggy and slows everything down. Even on a 1ghz Droid X, flash on web sites is annoying, yes its nice to be able to run it and see it, but after seeing it load all the time and most of that its been freaking ads.
      Simply not supporting flash at all is fine with me.

    • http://twitter.com/_elemenopee_ Kavin Nguyen

      My i4 has Flash and widgets.

  • Crowdawg54

    It must be coming soon…my Alarm Clock program from iHandySoft, Inc. had an upgrade this morning that said it was specifically for iOS 4.3.

    • http://twitter.com/Ravenatic Daniel Bennett

      But its made for 4.2.1 so it will obviously be accepted still. THey’re just saying it will work with 4.3 when its out!

  • http://twitter.com/Ravenatic Daniel Bennett

    Why do people post things like this?
    Betas are normally every 2 weeks. We’ve been expecting it tonight UK time… so why post this?

    :/. Speculation is annoying now. Just wait and see >_<

    • http://twitter.com/adrianisen Adrian IsĂ©n

      Because it’s news. Usually you wanna know things a little before it happens :)

  • spudman

    Yah fool, why would apple want to corrupt superior hardware with inferior software?

  • KCRic

    Does this mean you’re alarm clocks will work now? Silly Jobs, who make a phone without an alarm clock, on the next version maybe he’ll give you a calculator. Oh you already have that? Well good for you…

    • Anonymous

      Alarm clock? don’t you have a bunch of applications to delete because or their malicious intent to send your data to their host?

  • Anonymous

    Does it fix my moody home button? lol

  • Anonymous

    They do this so the underground community can start getting ready for it. Believe it or not Apple loves the jailbreak community and I bet they also love what they do. Cydia offers things apple can’t without getting their pants sue for. Android is a semi open platform with no other options, iOS is a close platform for those that need security and jailbreak will open the platform way open for those who are tech savvy.

    • Anonymous

      Yeah, Apple just loves people that jailbreak their phone and steal apps from them….

      Wow….

  • Fastwalking

    SO what – 4.3 doesn’t bring anything new or interesting to the iphone so whats the fuss all about?

    • http://twitter.com/N301DQ MRCUR

      It brings Mobile Hotspot to all iPhones…

  • Summeroy18

    I cant wait for the touch based gesture motions for poena dn pad

  • Chris9999

    It’s available now… downloading

    • JEM_IV

      can you send me the URL in which you found it available downloading, everywhere I find it…it just says in progress, so they’re basically just advertising it’s future availability, despite saying you can d/l it?

    • http://twitter.com/philbertnm Philip Werner

      not happening for me

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