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AAS Insight 104 - Symbian goes open source
Published by Rafe Blandford at 19:59 GMT, February 8th 2010
In All About Symbian Insight 104 (AAS Podcast 168), Rafe and Steve start with a quick look ahead to Mobile World Congress and then round up a number of small news items, including multiple firmware updates (N97 mini, X6, 5730, E52), details of a new version of the Ovi Store client, information on Greystripe and the Ovi Store and the lowdown on 1.4 million Ovi Maps downloads. In the second half of the podcast we discuss the big news that the the open sourcing (EPL) of the Symbian platform (40 million lines of code) has been completed four months ahead of schedule. You can listen to AAS Insight 104 here or, if you wish to subscribe, here's the RSS feed.
In this podcast we cover:
New firmware for the N97 mini (v11), X6 (v12.x), 5730 (v200), and E52 (V32).
Let's hope some developer re-enables the calendar/todo list functions that were available on the Psion MX5. They must be in the code somewhere!
PDAMad
On your coverage of this subject you missed one of the biggest issues with Nokia UK by blaming the firmware delays on network operators. In fact we are often the last to get firmware updates compared to RoW - even on SIM free handsets bought direct from Nokia UK.