Sigh
My S60 3rd ed handset isn't there.
Looks like with this version of Symbian they've invested just enough to keep the business customers sweet (fragmentation and costs and all that).
Nokia has new firmware on speed-dial and is set to offer many of its current client base a free Symbian Anna update. According to AllAboutSymbian, the Finnish mobile giant is set to handout firmware updates that come with Anna's improved browser Web 7.3, updated Ovi Maps, the addition of emoticons for SMS and MMS, and more. …
Good co-incidence is, Opera Mobile just got update today. WebP image format for turbo and other stuff.
Funny thing is, Nokia still keeps E71 on shelves since to convince E71 users to give up beauty for faster E72 flopped. E71 may be dozens of times used/sold than E72 and they know it for sure. They just want to keep people got tricked to upgrade E72 happy.
Anyways, at least web browser and more importantly (nobody uses browser), web runtime (wrt) got a new engine. Happy for Bloomberg and AP guys.
Ah well, I'll just go ahead anyway with another one... ;-)
As I understand it, "Anna" isn't what these older handsets are receiving. "Anna" is the next major update of the Symbian^3 OS - i.e. the system the higher-spec Nokia blowers from the last year or so are running (e.g. N8, C7, E7 et al). As the AAS article points out, the older devices are running S^3's predecessors (Symbian S60 3rd Edition FP2 and Symbian S60 5th Edition).
The newest Nokia S^3-based devices (e.g. X7, E6) are shipping with "Anna" installed, and as an N8 owner, I understand the earlier S^3 handsets should be getting the update in the next few weeks or so. (Mind you, one could put forward that Nokia's been saying that for most of this year, but let's move along quickly there...)
Basically, this is a grab-bag of various features from Anna, which Nokia is rolling out to selected older handsets. Now it's the turn of the S^3 owners to chafe while we wait for the Anna rollout...
"Meh", because... well, no "pedant" icon :-)
I'd be happy if at least they released a N96 firmware that it wouldn't reset whenever one tries to use the GPS. Not that I am using that crap much any more - dumped it for an Android long ago. I'd just like to have been able to at least use it as a small GPS, instead of having it in a drawer somewhere, as nobody would buy it second hand.
That is a good idea. I'll try using the one from my android phone, maybe it will work. But the problem seemed deeper than that, the N96 when used as a GPS tended to reset whenever you were reaching a complicated intersection on which you had to change roads. Seemed like the large calculations crashed it.
My old N82 takes better pix, picks up more wifi nodes and is faster on 'pure' GPS than my pal's iPhone, and is revived from our tropical downpours in Bangkok with a gentle blow drying (twice now). Even the wife uses her old N82, rather than her new S2, for pix.
Can't see what I could really upgrade.
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