Things were a bit quiet around here yesterday due to an all day field-trip to Nokia in San Diego (more on that soon - likely tomorrow evening), but we’re back.
First news of the morning comes via tip from Sean. Sometime yesterday, Samsung made an update (MR4, Version BJ20) available for the Instinct with at least one feature that many users have been anxiously awaiting: keyboard support in Java applications. Update: Some Java applications, it seems. While it works with Opera Mini, readers have mentioned that other applications are still keyboard-less
This is something users have been clamoring for since the Instinct’s launch back in june. Without it, many MIDP-compliant Java applications were pretty much useless on the device, including the much-loved Opera Mini.
The update also includes “Standard Document support”, and fixes for 165 little bugs that had been reported.
[Thanks Sean!]
Comments
Thank you for the heads up, I’m updating now!
I’ve read may things about the MR4 update and was really looking forward ti it. I updated my software yesterday and I still can’t use many Java applications or play the games. They keyboard works with Opera Mini, and that is about it. I don’t see any change in the web and still, I cannot view PDF, Excel, etc. documents. I’m a little dissappointed because I really thought this was going to correct the problems with this phone. This could be such a wonderful phone with so many capabilities, but it also seems like it’s few steps back from my old phone (Sanyo Katana DLX and the M1). I could at least access excel applications, MC2, Bankarama, Cost Manager, etc., but I can’t use these on the instinct even with the MR4 update.
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