if you happen to get hold of the iPhone OS beta 3.0 and you are tempted to upgrade to it .... DON'T

it got the better of me today and after the long firmware upgrade, i was greeted by one damning message - your phone CANNOT be activated. your iphone must be registered with iphone developer portal.

and a simple restore just won't work to get the iphone back to version 2. i tried several times and it failed.

after a few hours of research, i finallly found out that there is a different mode called DFU which finally got the iphone restored.

that was enough adrenalin rush for me for the day.

mine is singapore set which is offcially unlocked. not sure about the malaysian set.

what it does to your iphone, from what i read, is that it will lock you to the developer programme.

am connected to the US iTunes and still no sign of the updater. argh.