Samsung should consider itself one lucky company to have such a dedicated hacking community for one of its products. The product we’re talking about here is the i8910 HD, which by some standards is still the best Symbian S60 device out there — for instance, it has a bigger screen than the Nokia N8 and stereo speakers, which the N8 lacks. It has received yet another firmware update (firmware version HX-V11-5), packing several cool features, including: Full integration of Qt 4.7 RC1, allowing for seamless running of Qt-based apps Ability … Read more

Samsung should consider itself one lucky company for having such a strong community around one of its products – i8910 HD. The Symbian S60-powered smartphone recently got two additional fix-ups – HyperX’s HX-V8-32 and faenil’s n2o4. As you can presume, you can’t install both of these – you’ll have to pick which one will run on your respective i8910 HD. Either way, by installing any of the two – you’ll be significantly upgrading the existing firmware. I ain’t gonna suggest which one is better (cause both rock) and will leave … Read more

Just when we talked about that latest unofficial firmware update for the Samsung i8910 HD, another firmware has been released (version HX7). This time, QT 4.6.2 Symbian^3 libraries are included in the mix, making us think the Nokia N8 won’t be the first Symbian^3 device available on the market. To be fair, it’s not just Qt that’s included with the upcoming version of Symbian OS, but it has always been pointed as one of its key features. Of course, some of the known bugs have been fixed meaning the phone … Read more

Although Samsung is not too keen to update its Symbian-powered i8910 HD smartphone, the hacking community owning the powerful multimedia device is eager to improve it like all the time. Yap, the new unofficial firmware has been released, marked as HX7 aka “Black Pearl.” Here’s what’s new: Interface settings are improved – kinetic scrolling, included Camera now saves images and videos in DATE format “yyyy.mm.dd” Wlan power back to normal (you can change it if you want in Settings) Threaded SMS still there Pocket data back to normal Added “wow” … Read more

Samsung may have forgotten its i8910 HD users, but the tech-savvy among them [users] are there to stay, for now at least. That said, you will be glad to learn that the new version of HX firmware series for the i8910 HD has been released. The HX-V5 firmware brings a number of fixes and improvements, including fixing the Java certificate problem and improving battery life. That’s, of course, in addition to maximizing disk space on C:, providing better image quality and so on. Here are just a few other improvements/fixes: … Read more