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Originally Posted by Eight_bit  Pete, Can you point in the direction of an explanation of the software numbering platform?
The OP links to 4.5.099 and some (yourself incl.) refer to .102. Is this the same OS?
This is confounding to us Geezers & noobs.
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I updated to 4.5.081 (102)? yesterday and other than the Options>About glitch I find no genuine problems. The work around Alt>L-Shft>H is actually a faster way to observe free file size.
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. In general, pretty obvious this, the higher the total number the newer the OS. This is mitigated by different phones (Curve = 4.2.2.,xxx, Pearl = 4.2.1.xxx, Bold = 4.6.0.xxx, Javelin = 4.6.1.xxx) that use different OSs. I think that this is due to dufferent work groups inside RIM, you know, the Bold group, Javelin group, etc who develop each OS for the various platforms. I hope that this is clear enough so far.
Obviously version 4. OS has less functionality thatn OS 4.5, right?
The minor revisions 4.5.0.81 vs. 4.5.0.102 represent the evolution (carefully chosen word, there) of the OS as it gets better. Better here means fewer bugs and minor functionality revisions. A case here would be that in .102 we have seen the screen light up when the phon eis in Standby when the buttons eother side of the trackball ar pressed. It never did that before.
More important with the numeric revisions are the stability of the OS itself and the various functions it carries out. By this I means that the core functions of the OS (being a phone) are stable. The security and integrity of data need to be maintained as well as managing the so called memory leaks. Additionally the OS must use as little memory as possible and we have seen a maked improvement in all the above but expeciallin etter memory use from .81 to .102.
With each increment several minor but annoying bugs are fixed. Unfortunately nobody tells us what tehse are so we have to observe them ouselves. Some ar buried deepm within the OS and we may never detect them. Other are so obvious (less memory use, screen lighting up under standby) that we cannot miss them.
I worry is I see two revisions numerically close toether (.99 ans .102) released close togetrher (withing 10 days). This indicates to me that imediately following .99's release, they found a bug and had 3 internal goes (.100, .101, .102) before they we satisfied with it.
I hope that I have shed at least some light on this. Of course I am happy to dialog more if people do not fall asleep from reading my long posts.
Which 4.5? 
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