This isn't a knock on you as your just like the rest of us here we all love the duma right. However plenty of people on here want to be testers. So saying that you guys are doing this so the masses don't have to isn't really correct. If you took a poll right now you would get a lot of non beta testers willing to take on the risk.
Also the fact they chose you to be a beta tester while living in the 808 isn't really the smartest on their part unless you told them if you brick it, it's your bad. Just like the guy in Australia. We were all told they use UK people to beta test because of potential bricking which would cost them a lot in shipping. So to keep those cost down they limit to UK customers for testing. Which I totally agree with. But Crossy said once the UK guys give the OK then they expand it out to other tester outside the UK. At that point I would have to believe you move outwards so East Coast of North America would be next and other parts of western Europe. I would think the 808 and Aussieland for test would be the very last if not ever.
Either way it's cool you get to be a tester. I'm not fighting to be a tester.