More significant news from the Samsung i8910 HD firmware scene, which is accelerating, amazingly, rather than slowing down. 'faenil' has organised a one-click installer for the Qt 4.7.0 beta2 libraries for non-Nokia smartphones such as the i8910 HD, in theory letting them install some of the new Qt apps (e.g. the superlative Orange Wednesdays). A quote and video from faenil below. In related news, HyperX is now finalising HX8 firmwares, including even more customisations and a fix for Samsung's longstanding Music player bugs (a video for which is also embedded below). It's all go... What do you mean, you don't own an i8910 HD?

From faenil:

"You know how important Qt is getting for Nokia to try to get all the developers back on Symbian OS, that is why I tried hard to let i8910 users be able to run Qt software, thus giving them a future-proof feature on their phone, which has been forgotten by Samsung, despite his top class HW specs. I have read you have posted some news regarding Qt for mobiles, so I would like you to know something REALLY special for the mobile community, especially the i8910 one.

I have modified the Qt libraries package for i8910 and 'madhacker' and I have made an installer for the i8910 users, so that they can have the REAL Qt libraries. As you may know,  i8910 users and all the non-Nokia smartphones users are forced to install the qt_selfsigned.sis package which only gives developers the ability to use 5 capabilities of the Symbian OS... more complex software requires much more capabilities. With my package, i8910 owners are getting a full 19 capabilities, just like the qt_installer.sis for Nokia phones. Thanks to this, i8910 users are now able to use softwares like gpsp, wikitude, wordpress for symbian, ComingSoon, which were not working well using the qt_selfsigned with only 5 capabilitiess. "

For more info, see faenil's blog entry announcing the installer. Here's his accompanying video:

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And here's HyperX's demo of Music player now working in the upcoming HX8 firmware: