SpecK73 wrote:
Thanks for the updated information about the Symbian Anna release for Australia. I have to say that the news is disappointing though.
Can you explain why working with Australian service providers is different to working with service providers in other countries? What has created the delay?
I considered the end of August to be the deadline (which Nokia had set itself) by which time the Symbian Anna rollout would be complete.
We would really appreciate a method that would allow us to update our devices independently of the carriers' schedule. It's bad enough having to wait longer than other users but when the firmware deployment is delayed because the carriers want to add their own content which is often of dubious value it becomes really frustrating.
At the end of the day we own our Nokia devices. I strongly urge Nokia to consider providing its customers with a mechanism by which we can load a generic version of the firmware image onto our phones.
Whilst we may all own our nokia phones, you still have to be hooked up (via SIm card) to one of the Australian carriers. Many of the changes the carriers may make are just to make sure it works with the appropraite networks out here.
Some of it will be as simple as making sure our emergency numbers work on the phone. eg we use 112 and 000 out here whereas other countries use something different. And these numbers have to work where there is a sim in the phone or not., and whether there is credit available or not.
Whilst I agree that the carriers may choose to add some other junk like branding for instance, which we dont need, more of it will be making sure that things work correctly no matter which carrier you use or change to in the future.
These are all firmware based things, unlike what some people seem to believe on this forum. Whilst the hardware will generally be the same, the firmware that goes on the phone is different from one country to the next. Hence why Nokia has product codes on phones.
Also doing regional style updates, Australia 1 week, UK another week etc. helps to relieve the load placed on the servers, Imagine what would happen if you had 100 million people all trying to get the update in one go. No amount of servers in the world would ever cope. And then of course we would all blame Nokia for incomplete, corrupted, or lack of speed or a similar type of download issue.
Its been this long now, it wont be much longer. And besides the extra time gives nokia the chance to change or alter the download process so that we dont get some of the issue we saw when it was released overseas.
I persoanlly would like the download today, but I know the longer Nokia takes, the better off we should be, when we finally do get our turn.
So hang in there, it wont be much longer for us.
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