Samsung has released a new version of its firmware for the i8910 Omnia HD smartphone. We believe that this new XXIE4 firmware is only for unbranded handsets only, so UK Orange users won’t be able to try it out (although please let us know if it works!) Heading over to the Samsung Innovator dev-site is greeted by the following message:

Before anyone gets too excited, we have been told that this new firmware version does not update the audio codec, it still runs the AMR codec unfortunately. The XXIE1 firmware is currently running on unbranded sim-free i8910 HD handsets.

We haven’t been made aware as to what changes this firmware offers over the current Orange version, but hopefully this should be made clear soon. The Orange handsets are using firmware (I8910XXIDD) dated from 6th May while this new I8910XXIE4 firmware is dated 18th May 2009.

Update: We have a screengrab of the new firmware running on the i8910 HD. Click through for a larger image.

Update 2: It looks like that Samsung has taken down the i8910 HD firmware from the developer site, whilst it was up this morning. No idea why , hopefully we’ll find out soon.

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