Central to any Symbian smartphone these days is the Nokia Store client - it's your source for apps and for app updates - and the client just got itself a big update, albeit in beta form. Still referred to by Nokia as the 'Store QML client' (because it got itself a Qt rewrite last year - hopefully the name can be simplified in the near future), the new version is 3.24.050 and brings several critical fixes, detailed below.

From the download page:

Update 14.03.2012 - Version 3.24.050

• improves the user experience for the application update, especially when multiple items are available
• improves the robustness of the application installation process
• includes some critical bug fixes found since the previous release (3.22.053)
• improves the responsiveness of the store UI during the large file downloading

All of the above sound emminently worthwhile and I'd encourage readers to take five minutes to upgrade their Store. Most of you will already have Qt 4.7.4 in your device's firmware, so you may wish to go for the smaller 6MB client-only version?

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