Although the Samsung i8910 and the Nokia 5800 / N97 run essentially the same software, the way those companies build and distribute firmware packages is somewhat different. With the advent of publicly available full firmware files for the i8910, it didn't take long for some talented people to work out how to dis-assemble, alter, tweak, enhance and re-package those firmware files.
The result is a growing and thriving modding community for the i8910, enabling some excellent modified firmwares for the phone. The latest of these modified firmwares has been based around the Chinese ZCII1 core firmware and gives kinetic scrolling in an English based firmware.
While it's not illegal to re-flash the firmware on your i8910 with one of these modded firmwares, it will, technically, invalidate your warranty. Therefore, we're not going to post any links to the firmwares themselves; but we will say that all this information can easily be found via a quick Google search. And while we're on the subject, specific mention should me made of Hyperx, Sev7en and SymbiX as being three of the most prolific and well-known modders within this growing community.
It should be noted that it's not yet possible to modify all parts of the Samsung firmwares, so bugs which exist in the original firmware files can sometimes not be fixed by the modders. One such example is a bug in this latest browser build which breaks compatibility with WRT widgets.
However, this early release gives us a good indication of where Samsung is headed with their official firmwares, meaning we should be able to expect an Italian or other generic "official" firmware to be released sometime soon with the same kinetic browser additions. And if Samsung fix the core WRT bug in that release, the possibilities for the modding community are almost endless.
The attached video below, (15MB) shows the new browser in action. Click on the image to download...
