Best Way to Update: Over-the-air OR Via PC (Thru N...

Which way do you think is the best and MOST RELIABLE way to update the Nokia Nseries? Which way do you use?
1- Over-the-air
2- Via Nokia Software Updater (PC)
Your Thoughts?
Thanx.
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28-Dec-2008 08:47 PM
grschinon wrote:
28-Dec-2008 03:44 PM
nirav_m_suthar wrote:
Best way to update the firmware is the via PC coz there are many reason like it takes less time than any other methods, very secury etc.
That is absolutely not true.
An NSU update for the N96 at least is a 125MB download or thereabouts.
V10.043 to V11.018 was about 3.5MB via FOTA, V11.018 to V11.101 was no more than a few hundred KB, and V11.101 to V12.043 was once again about 3MB.
FOTA is far more reliable than NSU since there are fewer machines involved (the phone grabs the update directly from Nokia instead of having it buffered by a machine, a machine running one of the most notoriously unreliable operating systems ever created) and therefore fewer points of potential failure.
As psychomania pointed out, there are cases of people bricking their phones with NSU daily on these forums. To date, we have see one case of a failed FOTA update. Draw your own conclusions.
Like our resident psycho, I hope that FOTA becomes far more widespread in the future. It is much more reliable and quick.
Message Edited by grschinon on 28-Dec-2008 04:50 PM
although i tend to agree that FOTA should be safer, but i think we might be jumping to conclusions to early, as there are about 91 phones supported by NSU, most of which are updated by the conventional PC way, whereas there are very few that uses FOTA (i knew of 2 handsets), hence the relatively lower incidence of failures...

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