[michaels]

To attempt to answer some of the questions asked in this thread

Will I get my PR2.0 (Anna) update before Judgment Day?
The end of the world, much like its beginning, depends very much on the religious faith and/or scientific theory to which you subscribe, but I do not know of any religious or scientific belief that is predicting the end of the world before the launch of Anna - even the guy whose recent second attempt at getting it wrong made the world news.

I don't understand your excuses for not releasing the update immediately. You have already released the update with the T-Mobile version of the C7.
This is not actually true, the Nokia Astound does not yet have Anna. The initial release of the T-Mobile variant software on this device does contain some features of Anna, most visibly the portrait QWERTY keypad; but it is still not the full Anna release.

My phone has PR 1.2. Why is my phone showing that new device software is available if it isn't available? 

The software updates section of Ovi Suite will find updates for some Nokia applications as well as the main firmware. The SW Update app in your Symbian^3 device is also finding updates for some apps. 

[jrrsteve]

Thanks for clearing up some of the issues Michaels. However, why is it so difficult to give at least an 'approximate' date of when Anna will be available? If it was announced as coming in January 2012, I personally would happily wait, but to keep users in suspense is just not on, especially when some of the so called new features should have been included from the offset!

[kj55552009]

Thanks for the info. I was wondering about that.

No, I don't want to go back to the original Hong Kong firmware, because doing so would cripple my phone by disabling the FM transmitter. That was one of the reasons I r**ted my phone.

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Well that's why you are getting the update notification. PR 1.2 has been now released for your product code and since you did not upgrade the proper way the Nokia server thinks you are still on the old firmware. If you wish, you can reinstall now the firmware corresponding to your product code. If not, you'll just have to ignore it for another couple of months until Anna is released.

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[bumblebirra]

Dear Michaels. If the C7 Astound does not have ANNA, then Why have you not made a similar update containing these important ANNA features available for Non-astound C7 phones? Considering how frustrated everyone is at having such a poor web browser and no option to have a portrait QWERTY keyboard, something that people have been crying out for since the first phones went on sale, It would at least have been some consolation for the time we've all been made to wait just to bring our phones up to usable standards. I'm sick of checking for updates and finding updates that nobody cares less about.

Yes maybe ANNA is just around the corner, but I remember hearing this in January when was considering buying a C7.

[michaels]

The software variant used in the Astound was developed after PR1.2 was already available for other C7-00 variants and Symbian Anna development already underway, so most likely it was a straightforward process to build the new keypad option in during the initial development of the Astound software from Day One.

If Nokia's software teams had taken time-out to prepare separate interim update packages to introduce individual features like the QWERTY keypad for large numbers of existing variants around the world, this would have risked further delaying the full Anna release and the other benefits that it will bring, so I would imagine that doing everything at once with the Anna release would have been considered a more pragmatic approach.

I can not give an estimated date for the start of the Anna roll-out because it is Nokia's policy not to make software launch dates public in advance.

[bluegnu]

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michaels wrote:

If Nokia's software teams had taken time-out to prepare separate interim update packages to introduce individual features like the QWERTY keypad for large numbers of existing variants around the world, this would have risked further delaying the full Anna release

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Good job they didn't do anything else in that time to delay the release of Anna...

[93tid]

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michaels wrote: 

I can not give an estimated date for the start of the Anna roll-out because it is Nokia's policy not to make software launch dates public in advance.

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You should remind Jo Harlow about that next time she makes a presentation to a worldwide audience. It would definitely make your lives easier.

[bumblebirra]

Michaels, I accept your point that it was only feasible to create a single C7 Astound software variant. But it's disappointing that Nokia couldn't just provide update packages that would separately update the browser and the keypad. The OVI maps application gets updated regularly, so why not the browser? That would have taken pressure off the developers creating the the full ANNA update. These phones have so much potential, and in so many ways I'm happy with my C7, but it's a real shame that the ongoing developments will only be realised towards the end of the useful life of these fantastic phones.

[bumblebirra]

It's not like we were ever asking for a lot. Just a browser that runs a bit more smoothly like Opera does and which can view flash video like Youtube etc, and a keyboard like the one used in Opera.