Samsung F480

Jordan over at samsungflashwiki has managed to get some screen shots of the new open platform from Samsung known as 'bada'. It looks like developers can get involved and make their own apps for Samsung devices which is a much better idea than the current widgets. It doesn't look like it's going to beat the iPhone or Android but its nice to have another option which is probably cheaper as well. Take a look at the links below for more info!

http://samsungflash.webs.com/apps/blog/entries/show/2327680-samsung-bada...
http://www.samsungbada.com/
http://developer.bada.com

Jordon over at the Samsung Flash Wiki has created a guide for those of you who own an F480i so below is a link. Enjoy!

http://samsungflash.webs.com/apps/wiki/flashing-f480i

Revlin software have been very quiet about their new OS for the F480 and their Android port. Nobody seems to be able to get much info out of them either. Some people even believe its a scam so take a look at these links (translated from Dutch).

As 'japie' has said on the Revlin site 'Don't believe the HYPE!'. Read more »

The great Bolt mobile web browser has just been updated to version 1.5. Things seem a lot speedier on the F480 and personally I think it is far better than Opera Mini.

Find out how to remove the JAVA bar from it here

http://www.domsyard.com/samsung-f480/bolt-mobile-web-browser-f480-no-bar

...or go here with the standard F480 browser to download a version with JAVA bar already removed for you!

http://www.domsyard.com/sites/default/files/bolts2.jad

BOLT Homepage

http://boltbrowser.com/

It looks like RevLin Software are taking up the challenge of porting Android, Google's open source mobile operating system, along with their own OS to the Samsung F480!

This is an easy way to improve the Touchpad sensitivity on the Tocco. I found it a bit jumpy before this tweak but following these instructions improves things quite a bit! Read more »

If you haven't tried out the Bolt mobile web browser you should give it a go! It's a little sluggish but page rendering seems to be better than Opera mini and web 2.0 style sites with things like AJAX work very well.

One problem with it on the F480 is that has the JAVA bar at the bottom restricts the use of full screen web browsing. Its easily solved though! Read more »

This is how to work out which firmware version you have on your Samsung phone. This info was taken from the gsmhosting.com forums. Read more »