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Rest assured. FW and SW mean the same thing! :-D
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Posted: 2005-02-03 20:44:42
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Actually firmware refers to the code that is programmed into phones processor to carry out the basic functions/features of the phone.
Software on its own are applications that run on (using) the firmware.
A simple likeness is Windows XP and MS Office: where WinXP is the firmware and MS Office is the software.
No more confusion (I hope)!
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Posted: 2005-02-04 00:51:06
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To be completely pedantic, hardware is the iron... i.e. the physical bits that go to make up your computer/phone/pda. Software is code that you can load onto the device to do stuff. Firmware is stuff that's stuck in the middle... software that's inside hardware. Anything on ROM or EPROM would be firmware, even if it's an app.
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Posted: 2005-02-08 12:10:50
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you win!
so......... in the case of a phone, the upgrade is to the 'software' right (the phone OS??) so in theory upgrades should be possible accordign to what voda-jon said??
Right?
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Posted: 2005-02-08 15:56:56
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Mean like those embedded chips? Where code to make the hardware run is carried by itself. And firmware is that code? (Which can be changed?)
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Posted: 2005-02-08 16:11:02
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