Firmware V.21.0.016 to hit the N95-1 soon

[gorilla]

Totally lifted from digital spy (http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=761677):
Just a heads up on the details of the new firmware that should be out very soon, next few days as far as i can gather, it brings flash lite 3 amongst other things

Official Changelog


New features
* Flash Lite 3 support added
* Widget (Web runtime) support added
* Default year changed to 2008


Improvements
* General stability improvements.
* Pre-defined access point kept after switching to different type SIM card.
* Localization improvements.
* Standby time improvements.
* Improvements to BT headset interoperability.
* Improvement to Calendar data restoring.
* Switch from landscape to portrait mode & screen rotations improvements.

Browser
* Improvement to long text writing to web page text boxes.
* Browsing from WLAN wizard improvement.

Media Player
* Localizations improvements in Music player.
* Windows Media Player recognizes device as Nokia N95.

Gallery
* Image rotation improvement in album view.
* Gallery & Slideshow performance improvements.

Messaging
* Improvement to SMS reception.

Java
* Midlet installation improvement.
* Improvement to Java application start.
* Java midlet certificate checking improvement.

Navigation
* General improvements to Maps application.
* Localization correction to Search in Maps application.
* Improvement to Navigate To -function when started from search application.

SIM
* Contact names with accents and more than 11 characters can be copied to SIM card

Whether it's true or not is anyone's guess.

I can't do the upgrade on a mac though can I? I'll have to use the GF's xp machine to do it.

[Hands0n]

Very interesting - can't wait. V20 was such an improvement, it actually made the N95 practical and useable. V12 and downwards were right old dogs.

[Ben]

I can't believe there has been so much firmware for the N95. Nokia really have treated it like a computer - it seems to get as many updates as Windows!

Still, they've surely known for a long time that a lot of the NSeries has had issues, and it's clear that the N95 software is the basis for what Nokia intend to deploy on all of their GPS/WLAN/HSPA handsets with ubercameras. Add in the fact that they've sold a tonne of them and I suppose it makes sense to keep on tweaking.

[Hands0n]

It is also a sign, IMO, that Nokia rushed out their Symbian a bit too early and are sorting out the bugs as they go along. Not that any other OS company has never done that ;) But Nokia, with the N95 in particular, cannot go pi55ing off the punter with dodgy firmware. They have got to get it right or the likes of another smartphone supplier with a rather fruity name could well be causing them a bit of bother going forward.

With a phone (okay, handset) the user just expects it to work - we have yet to truly visualise it as a "computer in our pocket" and with all that implies.

[gorilla]

So, no one updated yet? I did last night, nice and easy for a change. Not really noticed anything different.
FWIW, it's on NSU.

[Hands0n]

TBH I'm getting on so well with V20 that I haven't bothered :D I really should .....