Nokia is taking a page out of Microsoft's playbook by offering a S60 "Service Pack" for the latest edition of its S60 smartphone platform. S60 3rd Edition Service Pack 1, as it goes by, adds several new features including an updated web browser. The S60 web browser has won accolades for excellent standards compliance and is actually based on the rendering engine Apple uses for its Safari browser. In the latest Service Pack release, Nokia has improved the browser to include features such as: auto complete, password management and a floating toolbar.
Other new features of the release include the ability for businesses to remotely manage software, and location based service related middleware. On a more consumer side there is now audio messaging, a video ringtone and new alarms.
S60 3rd Edition compatible applications are cross compatible with the new release.
Good questions. I'd guess that it's not user installable like most Symbian updates, but since it's a fairly minor update you never know. The new browser is pretty nice, it also works with WAP sites so there aren't 2 separate browsers to make things confusing.
Actually Nokia has started giving away firmware upgrades to users the past month. There is a Nokia client that can update some models (I think it can be downloaded from Nokia UK).
"Nokia is taking a page out of Microsoft's playbook by offering a S60 "Service Pack" for the latest edition of its S60 smartphone platform."
You really are on the wrong track here. Nokia have been releasing *Feature* Packs (I'm not quite sure where you got Service Pack from unless you just wanted to use that to link in Microsoft somehow) for the S60 OS for years.
These differ from the Firmware updates, which are device-specific software upgrades.
AFAIK there is no way to upgrade older 3rd edition device to FP1.
My questions to Nokia are these:
1. Will SP1 be available as firmware upgrade to existing E and N series S60 3.0 devices?
2. Is "Nat Traversal" implemented now for their VoIP client?
3. Can I save down a file to the file system that arrived via Bluetooth, or does it have to stay stuck on the "Messaging" client?