It's good to see Samsung S60 handsets now getting more compatibility love - Fring has just announced that their chat and VoIP solution is now available for the i550, which I reviewed a few months ago. More Samsung S60 devices to follow, surely.
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If it's S60 surely they would have been compatible anyway, single platform and all that? Or is it a bit more complicated in this case? 😊
Its more complicated for VoIP because of some of the extra APIs and codec support needed (at least that's my under standing).
Ah, shame. I was interested in one of the upcoming Samsung phones, but don't want to find that a lot of the software I currently enjoy won't work on it.
Any chance of an article about what people should expect with respect to compatibility? i.e. things that will/won't work - various applications, Symbian games (n-gage obviously won't work, as it's locked to a few Nokia handsets as it is), Java games (they often don't work correctly on other non-symbian handsets, but not sure if it's a symbian feature or Nokia specific), active standby additions (it didn't look like the Samsung has an active standby screen, from the screenshots), etc.
argh wrote:Ah, shame. I was interested in one of the upcoming Samsung phones, but don't want to find that a lot of the software I currently enjoy won't work on it.Any chance of an article about what people should expect with respect to compatibility? i.e. things that will/won't work - various applications, Symbian games (n-gage obviously won't work, as it's locked to a few Nokia handsets as it is), Java games (they often don't work correctly on other non-symbian handsets, but not sure if it's a symbian feature or Nokia specific), active standby additions (it didn't look like the Samsung has an active standby screen, from the screenshots), etc.
Yes we're going to try and do more of this. Essentially most third party apps should work. The exceptions are in areas which tie very closely into system level stuff. VoIP is one example of this, but sat nav may have problems too. Generally Nokia apps will not work on Samsung devices. In theory they may work, it is generally blocked by the SIS file declarations. For some apps this make sense as they tie closely into the UI (e.g. Nokia Chat), but I imagine its mostly to do with the fact they've not been tested (and why should Nokia provide apps to Samsung users). Personally I think Nokia should make sure its Ovi services work on Samsung devices.
Samsung does have active stand by and java games should work fine.
But yes we'll try and look into this more shortly-ish. I'm well aware that the G810 and i8510 have the potential to be very popular.
As far as I know, Samsung handsets do have active standby mode since its S60 3rd phones