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Mike Temporale
02-09-2005, 08:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.phonescoop.com/articles/firmware/' target='_blank'>http://www.phonescoop.com/articles/firmware/</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Your mobile phone is not all that different from your PC. It looks different, and acts different, but it shares many of the same components. They both have processors, memory and chipsets. On top of that, both have firmware (or BIOS, for you PC users), an operating system (OS), and even applications. Although smartphones have better publicized and more accessible operating systems and accompanying applications, all phones use them. Operating systems lend the same strengths to mobile platforms that they do to desktops, but it stands to follow that they also suffer the same weaknesses. They are large and complicated, and just as with desktop OSes, they are sometimes released with a bug or two."</i><br /><br />Eric Lin over at PhoneScoop has posted a really interesting look at software updates for mobile phones, and how they have evolved over time. My biggest concern about OTA updates is the size of the updates to be downloaded. Especially if you are not on a flat rate data plan. Give the article a read, and let us know what you think. :)

skibee
02-10-2005, 08:35 PM
Fascinating look at mobile software. Thanks for posting.