OTA provisioning on Nokia N900
I've been an N900 owner for a couple of weeks now and I will give an example how this device can be provisioned OTA using the industry standard OMA Client Provisioning.
For this I'm using a provisioning document with a single access point without any proxy information.
These steps are pretty straightforward.
Step 1. When first receiving the settings, the user is asked for the user PIN. This PIN is normally sent in a message before the settings arrive. If I had used network PIN this dialogue had not appeared.
Step 2. The user has to confirm to save the access point.
Step 3. The user is informed about the saved settings.
I will not bore you with screenshots of the actual settings, you will just have to trust me that the settings were saved correctly. N900 has only support for one access point and the saved settings will update the existing one (there are though some possibilities to add more access points by using 3rd party applications such as fAPN)
A curious reader might wonder if iPhone or Android based models have the same support. The answer is no. Neither iPhone nor Android handsets support provisioning settings by using OMA CP. iPhone can be provisioned by using it's propriatery document format "mobileconfig". I will write about how that can look like in another blog entry.
For Android, an effort has been done to implement this support but it hasn't made it into any official version yet. Talking about Android, industry rumors say it will have support for OMA DM in future versions. Let's see about that.
In the next blog entry I plan to write something about mobile vendors in Asia and specifically India. Vendors like ZTE, Huawei, Micromax, Spice and Videocon produce cost-friendly mobiles with features that can compete with their more expensive competitors. But more about that later.
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