Samsung i8510 INNOV8 User Forums

[dels8510]

Anyone notice by clicking on 'about' for the Samsung phone how Symbian (owned by Nokia, who bought it last year I think) has been licensed to Samsung from NOKIA?


Who'd have thought we would've seen the day when a Samsung phone would have the words Copyright NOKIA embedded into the OS lol

Also, anyone know how Samsung are with mobile phone firmware updates? This is my first proper SAMSUNG.

This is great though, Mobile companies working together on one operating system.

[Briggs]

Nokia brought Symbian a while back and made it into a foundation. And have sold this to Samsung to use. Samsung don't normally have updates like the Nokia software update programs. But however they do release from time to time firmware update flashers with the latest firmware. Like my Onmia i900 for example. One update has been released already for this phone.

Normally though Samsung's firmware when the phone is release is pretty much bug free and stable. Unlike Nokia....I remember my first dates of the N95. How many updates did that think get? It start with v10 i think and now its v21.0.16

When I had my G810 with Symbian, it was stable. No bugs or lock ups.

[yade]

Nokia doesn't just provide updates with bug fixes, they normally add new features and make enhancements and improvements. It would be nice for Samsung to do the same.

[Helz]

With their many recent and popular phone releases, let's hope they keep up the momentum and work on improving the firmware.

[stuclark]

Samsung have been a S60 license holder for about 4 years now, and have produced quite a few S60 handsets before the i8510, such as the i450, i550, i850 etc.

Symbian Ltd has for years been owned by a selection of companies, one of whom was Samsung (Samsung have just sold their share to Nokia), along with SonyEricsson, Motorola, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo and others.

S60 is a user interface which runs on Symbian OS and has always been owned by Nokia.

UIQ is another user interface which runs on Symbian OS and is owned by UIQ.

UIQ and S60 (along with Symbian OS) are licensed by companies such as Nokia, SonyEricsson, Samsung, Panasonic, Motorola, Mitsubishi and others who then build phones utilising that OS / UI combination. As Nokia owns S60, all S60 devices feature code licensed from Nokia.

What has now happened with the Symbian Foundation is that Nokia are buying out all the other Symbian Ltd. owners and taking control of Symbian Ltd; opensourcing their existing S60 user interface, and then GIVING them BOTH to the newly formed Symbian Foundation, to enable current and existing licensees to use the OS / UI for FREE in their upcoming phones.