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To be fair, you can't exactly "force" an android or an iOS device to update either. It's easier to coach users to update but goddamn would it have been impossib
by josh2600 12y ago
To be fair, you can't exactly "force" an android or an iOS device to update either. It's easier to coach users to update but goddamn would it have been impossible to get s40/60 users to move even one version up.
I recall doing an s60 software upgrade and having it crash halfway through, which somehow bricked the baseband and the operating system of the device. Go figure.
- Maakuth 12y agoOn S60 there was no separate baseband chip to my understanding, the Symbian kernel was responsible of driving the radio as well. This was said to give Nokia a competitive advantage, as most of the competing smartphone OSes required separate baseband chip with a firmware of its own, which drove costs up back then. Such chips are inside SoCs of course these days and cost next to nothing anyway.