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Ok, so what do I have to do in order to fix some things, recompile and upload a new version on my Nokia E71 ? Is this even possible ? Looking forward to seeing
by fierarul 17y ago
Ok, so what do I have to do in order to fix some things, recompile and upload a new version on my Nokia E71 ? Is this even possible ?
Looking forward to seeing Symbian-based distros for our phones but I have the feeling this is more like the end of the road for Symbian, not the beginning of an open-source explosion.
- asmosoinio 17y agoI'm pretty sure it's just Symbian, not S60, the UI platform. So you can not build E71 firmware with what they open sourced.
- pavlov 17y agoNo, the Symbian open source release includes S60 as well. (Although S60 is not long for this world; it's going to be replaced by a new Qt-based layer in Symbian^4 next year.) That said, porting Symbian^(x) to the E71 would be a major effort. The S60 5th Edition UI layer seems to assume a screen resolution of at least 640*360. Even if that were resolved, I'm not sure how one would get the software on the E71. Apparently some Samsung users have created customized Symbian firmware upgrades, so maybe it's a more realistic prospect for S60 5th Edition devices.
- asmosoinio 17y agoI stand corrected -- it used to be that Symbian was just the OS and lower layers, and Nokia had S60 UI etc., Ericsson had UIQ. But I guess this changed a few (2?) years back when Nokia bought a bigger part of Symbian?
- fierarul 17y agoSo this means that the open-source announcement is useless for me (and presumably other users having older devices -- if you could call my less than 1 year E71 old). Who benefits from this announcement ? I would love to see open-source "cell-phone" distros but I think they won't happen very soon.