hmmm, yea, sorry, beta was short for "step 4/5".

Think amongst youself, before PR1.2 was introduced, wasnt the device often fealt like an unfinished product that he was?
And even today, as so much users here pointed out, there are still a significant amount of bugs. Bugs that still, if this phone was called "Droid" "Iph*ne" or whatever would cause it to never see the light of day until fixed. So go ahead, dont call it beta.