The term 'Series XX' refers a specification that groups frameworks which provide a common programming base and physical similarities. That way a developer who wants to make an application or service will develop it according to the Series specification, thus making his software compatible with all the terminals that follow that specification.
So, all Series 60 devices wil have the same operating system (Symbian OS), same screen size and same user interface. Series 60 is recognized as the "Smartphone" specification.
Series 40 and 30 refer to devices with less capabilities. If you want detailed specification in this subject I recommend you go to: http://forum.nokia.com
I would go to an authorized Ericsson Technical Center and they will flash it. Nothing more. I have friends with other phones that made it this way and there were no problems.
But in some cases (i.e. if I would like to have a development version of the phone's sw), I would call a friend of mine who works there and tell him to flash it for me.
Hi, I haven't used HSCSD yet as no operator in Spain is offering at the moment.
I use WAP services through GPRS which is great: fast, always online and don't have to look how much time I am logged. Right now speed is 3+1, 3*14.4 = 43.2 kbps downlink and 14.4 kbps uplink. When the new R520 firmware arrives I might connect with 4+1 (57.6/14.4).
Believe me, if you can use GPRS for WAP avoid other options!
I'm a spanish engineer and developer involved with anything related to wireless aplications. I've seen a lot of this stuff going on from the beginning and I can say you some things:
WAP may suck, but not as much as people claim: I mean, the majority of wapsites are not created with care. They usually don't care about usability and user comfort, as Jakob Nielsen says; most of them don't mind about making too much accesses to the wireless network instead of pushing the limits of the phone memory and not rethinking the whole content for the wireless medium. The bare 1300 and something bytes of max. wml deck of the Nokia 7110 (the phone reference), is enough to make some pretty things, but people prefer to link everything, despite the high user cost of accessing the wireless network.
WAP insecure? no more than other services All the people who get in WAP always complain about the white spot that makes the WAP Gateway, but don't realize that this element in the architecture is the safest of all. It's easier to defend a single machine where you know exactly what kind of things it should be doing that any other, let's say a mirror of an ecommerce site database. Phone companies can monitor this machine well. And in the other side, if anyone gets to infiltrate in the gateway, he would have to search and identify very volatile tiny strigs of plaintext in,tipically, 4Gb memory of a monitored server, and believe me, even having full root access to the server it's almost impossible.
The real reason with the failure of WAP services: I have observed during all this wireless hype that the real reason for peole rejecting WAP is that the services already made doesn't give the people using it real value and they are very overpriced. All the sites offer the same: some news, stock info... that's all? And all of this is billed at such astronomical prices that is cheaper buying a whole newspaper that consulting a news item on WAP. I have calculated that the right price to make wireless services explode would be about 0.60 euros per Megabyte transferred.
Right now I'm developing my own personal services, using a very good mobile phone (Ericsson R520m). By the moment I can program my coffe machine by WAP, and also I'm starting to use WAP push services to be notified of important news events and having the information I really care wherever I go. Believe me, with GPRS networks, a right billing scheme and good personalized services WAP sucks a lot less:-)
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The term 'Series XX' refers a specification that groups frameworks which provide a common programming base and physical similarities. That way a developer who wants to make an application or service will develop it according to the Series specification, thus making his software compatible with all the terminals that follow that specification.
So, all Series 60 devices wil have the same operating system (Symbian OS), same screen size and same user interface. Series 60 is recognized as the "Smartphone" specification.
Series 40 and 30 refer to devices with less capabilities. If you want detailed specification in this subject I recommend you go to: http://forum.nokia.com
I would go to an authorized Ericsson Technical Center and they will flash it. Nothing more. I have friends with other phones that made it this way and there were no problems.
But in some cases (i.e. if I would like to have a development version of the phone's sw), I would call a friend of mine who works there and tell him to flash it for me.
Hi, I haven't used HSCSD yet as no operator in Spain is offering at the moment.
I use WAP services through GPRS which is great: fast, always online and don't have to look how much time I am logged. Right now speed is 3+1, 3*14.4 = 43.2 kbps downlink and 14.4 kbps uplink. When the new R520 firmware arrives I might connect with 4+1 (57.6/14.4).
Believe me, if you can use GPRS for WAP avoid other options!
- WAP may suck, but not as much as people claim: I mean, the majority of wapsites are not created with care. They usually don't care about usability and user comfort, as Jakob Nielsen says; most of them don't mind about making too much accesses to the wireless network instead of pushing the limits of the phone memory and not rethinking the whole content for the wireless medium. The bare 1300 and something bytes of max. wml deck of the Nokia 7110 (the phone reference), is enough to make some pretty things, but people prefer to link everything, despite the high user cost of accessing the wireless network.
- WAP insecure? no more than other services All the people who get in WAP always complain about the white spot that makes the WAP Gateway, but don't realize that this element in the architecture is the safest of all. It's easier to defend a single machine where you know exactly what kind of things it should be doing that any other, let's say a mirror of an ecommerce site database. Phone companies can monitor this machine well. And in the other side, if anyone gets to infiltrate in the gateway, he would have to search and identify very volatile tiny strigs of plaintext in
,tipically, 4Gb memory of a monitored server, and believe me, even having full root access to the server it's almost impossible.
- The real reason with the failure of WAP services: I have observed during all this wireless hype that the real reason for peole rejecting WAP is that the services already made doesn't give the people using it real value and they are very overpriced. All the sites offer the same: some news, stock info... that's all? And all of this is billed at such astronomical prices that is cheaper buying a whole newspaper that consulting a news item on WAP. I have calculated that the right price to make wireless services explode would be about 0.60 euros per Megabyte transferred.
Right now I'm developing my own personal services, using a very good mobile phone (Ericsson R520m). By the moment I can program my coffe machine by WAP, and also I'm starting to use WAP push services to be notified of important news events and having the information I really care wherever I go. Believe me, with GPRS networks, a right billing scheme and good personalized services WAP sucks a lot less