"Trolltech's Linux-based Qtopia stack will be available with third-party software aimed at allowing partial FOTA (firmware over-the-air) updates...
According to a Red Bend spokesperson, vRapid Mobile is a new and enhanced superset of the company's widely used VCurrent Mobile FOTA software. Whereas VCurrent is designed to update an entire firmware stack at once, the new VRapid product uses differential compression to deliver only those parts of the stack that have actually changed...
Calling the new approach Software Components Over-the-Air (SCOTA), Red Bend says that vRapid Mobile can update the following components:
* Embedded applications such as messaging clients, web browsers, homescreen clients, and media players
* Middleware and service enablers including Java Virtual Machine, Flash Lite, position location software, media codecs, SIP and IMS clients, and digital rights management (DRM) agents
* Device features like Bluetooth profiles and multimedia and 3D graphics engines"
