Mike Trujillo, the product manager for Carbide.c++, has just declared an ETA for the release candidate of version 1.3 of Nokia’s Eclipse-based Symbian development environment(passionately hated by Resco’s Michal Sartoris):
1. Release Candidate 1 is Jan 28. This is our proposed final
product! This also means that users need to report their bugs. Get
your bugs reported early!
In case you don’t feel like joining the beta test team, rest assured that we will keep you posted!
Our long-term friend Biskero has posted a little note to his blog about how Nokia’s N82 is the first S60 phone that does not “loose” RAM data while receiving a firmware update(my Nokia N71’s RAM was flushed while updating). For me, this move comes way to late, especially if one looks at the archaic way Nokia uses for delivering firmware updates - while most other companies do OTA for quite some time(hey, even Palm can do OTA on Palm OS), Nokia still sticks to its PC-based updater software.
Why, in God’s name, can’t the program copy all RAM data to the PC before applying the update? Most S60 phones have less than half a gigabyte of RAM - saving that to a PC would take less than 10 minutes.
Why does Nokia force customers to completely reconfigure their phone after installing a firmware update? Has nobody ever thought of this possibility before?
P.s. I ventilated the idea that they earn money from it - but it doesn’t seem so…