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Looking back at ELC

Posted Apr 26, 2007 5:59 UTC (Thu) by Los__D (guest, #15263)
Parent article: Looking back at ELC

"When Nokia released a major software upgrade for the 770 tablet, it was the first time it had upgraded the software for any product in the field."

This is not entirely true... There has been several versions of most of the phone firmwares, you just need to go to someone willing to flash the phone, or to buy the flasher cable and find the new firmware yourself.

For example, there has been several versions of the 6230i firmware, one of the latest versions made 1GB+ memory cards possible.


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Looking back at ELC

Posted Apr 26, 2007 6:23 UTC (Thu) by eru (subscriber, #2753) [Link]

Nokia phone software upgrades for the advanced models have been around for years and are often done when you take the phone to repair service. Not to mention that Nokia also makes several other products than phones that contain embedded software, some of which have long lifetimes (could be over a decade in the case of telecom switches) and are expected to be upgraded many times. I wonder where the original article got that nonsense about 770 being the first upgraded product?

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