πŸ“±iPhone OS 2 Beta 4 (Big Bear)
Build - 5A258f was released 23 Apr, 2008 for:
β€’ iPhone 2G (1st gen.)
β€’ iPod Touch. (1st gen.)

Apple lists the following features as Coming Soon:
β€’ OpenGL ES support
β€’ Support horizontally transitioning the keyboard out on a navigation controller pop
β€’ The default font size for UITextView will be reduced
β€’ Several new Chinese input methods
β€’ Import SIM Contacts
β€’ Code signing enforced
β€’ Many languages ​​added.

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πŸ“±iPhone OS 2 Beta 5 (Big Bear)
Build - 5A274d was released 6 May, 2008 for:
β€’ iPhone 2G (1st gen.)
β€’ iPod Touch. (1st gen.)

iPhone OS 2.0 beta 5 doesn't do a whole lot else besides throwing in small tweaks to the UI, tweaks to the developers tools and some bug fixes. No big feature addition like last time, but you gotta update if you're making iPhone apps. You just gotta! There probably won't be very many more of these before the next iPhone's out.

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πŸ“±iPhone OS 2 Beta 6 (Big Bear)
Build - 5A308 was released 29 May, 2008 for:
β€’ iPhone 2G (1st gen.)
β€’ iPod Touch. (1st gen.)

πŸ—£Those people familiar with the software say both scrolling and transitions have seen vast improvements over the previous builds.

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πŸ“±iPhone OS 2 beta 7 (Big Bear)
Build - 5A331 was released 9 Jun, 2008 for:
β€’ iPhone 2G (1st gen.)
β€’ iPod Touch (1st gen.).

πŸ—£Most notably, all references to .Mac setup have been re-branded for the upcoming MobileMe replacement service. The build also repaired a nagging issue where an IPSec VPN account with pre-shared key authenication would fail to establish a connection.

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πŸ“±iPhone OS 2 GM (Big Bear)
Build - 5A345 was released 26 Jun, 2008 for:
β€’ iPhone 2G (1st gen.)
β€’ iPod Touch (1st gen.).

πŸ—£Gold master, release coming soon...

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πŸ“±iPhone OS 2 (Big Bear) πŸ“Ί
Build - 5A347 was released 11 Jul, 2008 for:
β€’ iPhone 3G, iPhone 2G (1st gen.)
β€’ iPod Touch (1st gen.).

This update:
β€’ $9.95 - upgrade for iPod Touch (1st generation).
β€’ Added language support:
β€’ Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Polish, Dutch, Korean, and Brazilian Portuguese language interface in iPhone, formerly these languages were only in the iPod Touch since 1.1.1
β€’ Extra keyboard languages including Chinese and Korean and Russian
β€’ Support for Traditional and Simplified Chinese handwriting recognition.
β€’ Mail, contacts, calendars
β€’ Grouped settings.
β€’ Mail
β€’ Push e-mail
β€’ Ability to select an outgoing email account within Mail application
β€’ Support for BCC in Mail application
β€’ Multiple email delete/move
β€’ Ability to view MS Office attachments
β€’ Ability to view iWork attachments, including Pages, Numbers, and Keynote.
β€’ Contacts
β€’ Contacts icon on "Home" screen (iPhone only, it was formerly on the iPod Touch)
β€’ Ability to search contacts
β€’ Global Address List
β€’ Push contacts
β€’ Ability to import SIM contacts.
β€’ Calendar
β€’ Multiple calendars supported in Calendar with colour-coding (desktop colours only preserved if using Mobile Me)
β€’ New "Calendar" menu in "Settings"
β€’ Push calendar.
β€’ Enterprise enhancements
β€’ Enforced security policies
β€’ Device configuration
β€’ Remote wipe.
β€’ iPod
β€’ Video can be shown in either landscape orientation (instead of just landscape left)
β€’ Videos in playlists & music videos can be shown in portrait or landscape orientation
β€’ Sound fade-out when exiting a video.
β€’ Other
β€’ App Store (to manage third-party applications) with home screen icon- Store for apps
β€’ Certificates and Identities
β€’ WPA2/802.1X
β€’ Ability to turn Wi-Fi back on while in Airplane mode
β€’ Cisco IPsec VPN support
β€’ Ability to take screen captures
β€’ Ability to save pics from Safari or Mail to Photos
β€’ Bonjour service discovery protocol
β€’ Support for SVG
β€’ Addition of Parental controls
β€’ Password letters are momentarily visible while typing
β€’ Ability to turn Location Services on or off
β€’ Applications that use Location Services now prompt user for confirmation 3 times
β€’ Tapping status bar to scroll to top shortcut
β€’ Updated calculator with extra features in portrait mode, a scientific calculator in landscape mode and an updated icon
β€’ Updated iTunes with a new icon and reordered category icons within iTunes application
β€’ Camera now supports Geotagging
β€’ YouTube plugin for Safari.

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