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Mobile Phones Will Always Be Buggy

Over on All About Symbian, I’ve posted some thoughts about mobile phone firmware. Spurred on by the problems around the Blackberry Storm and its ‘buggy’ software in the first wave of hardware releases, the company CEO said that this was the wave of the future – all phones released will have bugs.

The knee jerk reaction that this is bad was always going to happen, but I think that he has a point here:

It’s to do with complexity. The modern mobile Operating System is huge, and measured in tens of Megabytes. That’s a far cry from ten years ago when the rock solid reputations of Palm OS and Psion’s SIBO (a forerunner to Symbian OS) were made. They had very little external devices to cope with beyond a serial port and user input either by the screen or the keyboard. Now you have multiple ways of connecting your smartphone to other computers and networks – Bluetooth, sometimes infrared, GSM, GPRS, EDGE, 3G, Wi-Fi, NFC… That adds a lot of complexity to the inputs that any OS processes have to handle.

More thoughts on the subject at All About Symbian.

January 28, 2009; Links to my Articles, Symbian;

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