New N95 firmware = V21.0.001 - pics included

[Mr G]

Originally Posted by Gizmoratty

Huey, I did check for the standby options you were asking about and it's a no-no so far :(

But I have another reservation in 20 minutes if anyone would like me to check anything specifically?

Any new themes?

[dtm]

Hi just signed up here after viewing this site a few times in the lat couple of days after buying a N95 so Hi. It looks like this firmware could make this phone miles better.

Is the new Nokia Maps included?
Search on the standby screen now displayed?
Will the battery life still be turd lol?

[GeneralBobo]

Can we presume that it will be out withing this week now that the word is officially out? :)))))

Also, does not have a built-in function like RotateMe does it? :) That would be cool wouldnt it :)

Boboing out...

[salada2k]

This is all truly exciting news.

Extra free RAM? Ngage? YouTube? New options? Wow! *drools*

I wonder if the performance tweaks they have done to save on RAM could also translate to battery life savings? If they've improved the general architecture of the software, then it's very possible.

I think since they are releasing NGage, which will chew the battery, that they would have had to have focused on battery life also. Let's keep our fingers crossed!

All in all, this is great!

[dayene]

i'm so excited! woohoo!

[Sp00k]

Great job Gizmo... Many thanks for the info!

[ellmondo]

I'm reserved for the morning and afternoon tomorrow, lol giz is on it right now :P

[frenchmeat]

Yes!!!!!!! yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes

I couldn't give a rat's *** about the battery life, even if it was improved- I'm just glad I won't get the OUT OF MEMORY LOL error when the only thing I have open is my Gallery!!!

[Romiokest]

WooHoo ... finally Nokia responds for the angry mob ... curse me for doubting Nokia ... gotta get the screen fixed qickly now :'(

[Gizmoratty]

LOL big list here:

Originally Posted by pseudofinn

As far as the v15 firmware for the 8GB goes, yep- that's a new version. The firmware on my 8GB is listed as v10.

Any word on the US variant (N95-3)? It could REALLY use a speed boost courtesy of demand paging...

The v15 firmware is also only a WRT demo version at the moment and not a current realease but hopefully this is the first sign of the new firmware :D

And sorry, no indication of anything for the N95-3

Originally Posted by huey85

How about the n-gage app? and the multimedia too.

Just looking through it now, the N-Gage app needs to be downloaded before use (Which I won't be getting into) but as the screen cap would suggest, it is definitely supported

As for multimedia, everything seems to be the same apart from the music player with the added podcast sections

Originally Posted by ellmondo

how are you trying it out sorry kinda confused :S how can i try it or can we?

Through Nokias RDA system for developers you can find it through the Nokia research forums

Originally Posted by MaTiCeK

2 questions:
- What's up with the Multimedia menu? Is it gone, changed to the new one or still there in all of its uselessness?

- My god, don' tell me the new firmware enables you to play flash videos of the web? Please explain the youtube screenshot.

Multimedia Menu is exactly the same as the current firmware at te moment :( but like I said, this is not a final release so it may be implemented some time in the near future

And yes, it seems to accomodate a full flash web browser plugin for sites like Youtube :D

See here, Youtube is definitely not the easiest site to view, and videos appear about 300% the size of the screen


(At 100% zoom)

But when switched to full screen via the flash player, it enters landscape mode and produces a lovely viewing

Originally Posted by Mr G

Any new themes?

Same old themes corrently.. :(

Originally Posted by dtm

Is the new Nokia Maps included?
Search on the standby screen now displayed?
Will the battery life still be turd lol?

Maps v1.2 wk37 is the installed version

Apparently yes, the search application is accessable via the standby screen :D

No word on the battery handling, but there seem to be no extreme application changes, so I would imagine there is no difference

Originally Posted by GeneralBobo

Can we presume that it will be out withing this week now that the word is officially out? :)))))

Also, does not have a built-in function like RotateMe does it? :) That would be cool wouldnt it :)

Boboing out...

This is not a final release whatsoever - I will be clear on this and say there is NO indication of this being released any time soon, but obviously the clues are there, telling us it shouldn't be too long ;)

As for the RotateMe function, it has not been included so far..

Any more questions?