Better for them to solve the bugs first rather than to continue introducing new features.

Now that lollipop is coming out soon, they're going to have their hands full. It could well begin with a good base in 8.1 and build on from there.

This post has been edited by nas: Oct 19 2014, 10:57 PM

I was on beta 1 when I was on 5s and it seems polished for the first beta. Now that I'm on 6 and running on 8.0.2, I hope the final release will be a huge improvement.

Successfully updated to 8.1 on 6.

To soon to feedback bro, you need to allow the battery to charge at least two cycles to start noticing any difference.

Don't have it either on my 6. Could it be phone or carrier specific? I do notice however after the 8.1 update the carrier info is showing 18 now instead of the previous 17 on Digi.

Other than the Apple Pay feature, the rest are bug fixes IMHO. Perhaps there will be some new feature(s) on the next major release, 8.2.

Any one looking for a nice widget can try vidget.

Didn't notice any draining so far.

Oh btw, you can customize the colors of the widget.

And slowly they're including more widgets. And you can give suggestions as to what type of widgets you would want to include.

This post has been edited by nas: Oct 22 2014, 11:16 AM

On the current charge was the same as 8.0.2. Of course you should only see the actual performance after a few charges.

Swype is free in app store now.

I feel the 8.2 Has improved the phone experience. Battery to me is quite good and the swiping experience is smooth.

Yesterday I installed the 8.3 beta 3 and the experience is even better.

### Another extra plus is now under data we have the options:

1. LTE
2. 3G
3. 2G

Carrier is v18.0.1.

This post has been edited by nas: Mar 15 2015, 11:18 AM

Yes there is 2g option. I'm on Digi.


This post has been edited by nas: Mar 16 2015, 08:38 PM

I'm on 8.3 Beta 3.

Yes you can because 8.2 is the latest signed version. Just do a restore.

You may refer the link below.

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1855155

Yeah it is new. Previously do not have. Not sure if it is available for all carriers though. I'm on Digi like you.

Personally after using 8.3 beta 4 before this update, it was already smooth and I believe the best experience so far.

On beta 4, was averaging 6 hours plus when the battery almost reached 20%. I normally charge > 20%. So personally one should give this version a try.

Yes, animations do feel fluid now. But hopefully it will not impact battery much.

Too soon to tell bro. Give our phones a couple more charges to get a better picture

Try monitoring after one or two more charges. Initial drain is expected since you're playing more with the phone to experiment with the new features/OS.