Saturday, April 14, 2012

Nokia issues software update to its Lumia 900 bug...

...too bad it can't push the update out over the air.

It's amusing to see some websites calling the update simple.  Watch the video and count the number of steps you have to perform.

Note how you have to download and install Zune software to your PC, then connect your phone and run Zune software, to check online for updates, then download them, then install them.  Then you have to put your left foot in and your left foot out, your left foot in and shake it all about, you do the hokey pokey and shake yourself around -- that's what it's all about.



You know, there's no step required and no convoluted process in an automatic Android OTA update...it just updates your phone.

And I'm still carrying a smirk every time their ads come up.

If you think about it, Nokia's QA/QT testing should have caught this enormous flaw affecting data access.  It's not like this was some hidden vulnerability which was peripheral and not primary to the phone's functionality.  And if a flaw that affects a phone's primary operation goes unnoticed during testing, what other flaws might be lurking underneath?

Again, Nokia's the one implying that its phone is bug-free, by using ads to tout the end of beta testing.

"List one..just one single piece of software that was out of beta that did not have a bug." - Raygun, Slashgear user.

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