In All About Symbian Insight 89 (AAS Podcast 151), Rafe and Steve talk about the recent release of version 20 firmware for the Nokia N86 8MP. Rafe and Ewan report back from Over the Air (OTA) where they listened to presentations on Symbian approach to evolving UI and Nokia's Qt strategy. There's also discussion about Nokia's acquisition of Dopplr. You can listen to AAS Insight 89 here or, if you wish to subscribe, here's the RSS feed.
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Dialler application no letters in 5th? Best tell my i8910 not to do it then:
Perhaps it's a Samsung modification?
N86 FW is ONLY out for FOTA updates, NOT an NSU one, despite the title of your News Items on the site saying it is out for both, over a week ago - though I am aware the error might not have been of your own making.
And I've just checked now, and still no NSU (this being for standard EURO 1 Product Code, rest assured, not a custom package).
I can kind of see why Nokia might have tested this change (FOTA before NSU, when previously it was the other way around), on the basis that more people are likely to click a "checker" on their phone, than randomly connect up to a PC and see if there is anything new that way, on a regular basis.
But the problem here is that the end result is more people are made AWARE there is a new FW, but this is NOT the same as actually being able to do anything about downloading and installing it, as many (like me) cannot even use FOTA due to Carrier Restrictions etc.
So FOTA before NSU is a BAD thing.
And just to repeat, for now, it is STILL not available via NSU, even for the usual first Product Code models to get it, even though it IS available via FOTA for those lucky ones whose Operator actually allows it.
Mighty frustrated and let down.
It's OK not to have the firmware updates for all users at the same time, but when simfree phones are forgotten for weeks/months or maybe at all... that's not undestandable anymore. As a latest example: v12 for N97 is still not released for some simfree country variants (Switzerland). And it took more than a month for UK, Germany or France.
Hi,
Does anyone have any news on Symbian 2 and what this brings? Are there many new improvements and are they likely to be ported into new firmware on previous devices by Nokia(n97 owner here).
Stephen
Cough EURO 1 code Cough
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