Samsung i7110 Review, pt 2. The Software
Published by Ewan Spence at 11:19 GMT, January 6th 2009
Steve continues looking at the Samsung i7110, this time turning his attention away from the performance and onto the software and user interface. With the caveat that this build is still an early version, he finds a lot to be impressed by, but it still needs a little bit more polish before the i7110 can really shine.
As already mentioned in part 1 of this review, the i7110's firmware is so early and the Samsung integration into the S60 ecosystem is so immature that making any qualified judgement on how good or bad this phone is will be somewhat innacurate in the long term. I've been refreshing Samsung's PC Studio download page and trying their online Software Update tool every other day for the past month and still can't seem to make contact - I'll update this review when Samsung sort out their servers and connectivity and when new firmware finally appears.
The full review can be found here.
Categories: Hardware
Platforms: S60 3rd Edition
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OTG == On The Go.
AFAIK the various Java versions are either not 3D or else they're lower resolution 3D (as lower res allows 3D to work on slower platforms).
The problem is that publishers and distributors don't always label smartphone games as smartphone games, so they often get lumped together with Java games in the publicity. People know the term "java" but they don't necessarily know the OSes which run native apps, so "java game" is used even when it shouldn't be. The nearest you get to a specific label with Gameloft is the suffix "HD", which usually means a native application rather than java.