N95-1 Gets The Coveted V21 Update
Yup, it’s finally here! Everyone was talking about it, waiting for it, wanting it. And now it’s here! The official N95-1 firmware update is now official and available. This update brings most importantly Flash lite 3 which will let you play flash videos immediately in the browser (YouTube and the likes), Web runtime which brings widget support.
Steve Litchfield from AAS has just unearthed this news and he reports the following changelog:
- Flash Lite 3 is included, so Flash video sites will work, including YouTube (just as on the N95 8GB v15 firmware from a couple of months ago)
- The Web runtime is included, meaning that standalone widgets are now possible
- Greater Bluetooth headset compatibility
- Better handling of entering lots of text into web page dialogs
- Speedier Gallery in every way
- Faster Java runtime, so Java apps start faster
- plus the usual miscellaneous bug fixes and tweaks, no doubt!
You can jump over to AAS to see some screenshots of YouTube working.
I am now in the process of looking for my USB cable to start the update myself. Though, to tell you the truth, I personally am mostly bumped about the faster Gallery, as this is the feature that I use frequently. For flash videos, there’s emTube and Mobitubia which I compared a while ago. Both of them work perfectly well. I have tried the new version of Mobitubia and am very pleased with the improvements, the lag times I complained about in my review are mostly gone and this by itself pumped the application a lot in my opinion.
Ricky: To those of you who’ve weathered it out with your old N95-1, congratulations. Enjoy your update. Also, I realize this update was covered across the blogosphere over the past few weeks. However, at that point, it was not available to end users through NSU, and thus, it’s not really newsworthy, in my opinion. I don’t want to make readers waste time sitting there checking firmware constantly for something that’s not there.
Oooh, exciting. Looking forward to seeing the changelog.
and it rocks….
Must faster start up, snappier menu browsing and the gallery now opens quickly.
Oh, youtube works too.
Mark
I still haven’t had time to update mine. Argh
And still no update for the N95-3, the only N95 with no demand paging, flash 3 in browser, and more crucial updates.
I dont want to egg you on Ricky but I’m still praying for the day you report about fw update for -3. I’m kinda wishing now that I got the -1 instead but I can’t go back to edge.
@Dee lol Ricky wanted to throw another rant about the N95-3 being the red headed child and bastard of the N95 family, but he held on this one as I beat him to the post, lol :p
Joking aside, even if I am not concerned with the N95-3 I am seriously pissed that Nokia haven’t updated the device. Having Demand Paging on my N95-1, I can see how much of a GREAT difference this introduces!
The Flashlite 3 upgrade is great - just being able to visit the full fat YouTube website and watching the videos for me now beats using the other 3rd party apps.
I still was pleased that I had to do a manual restore of my data
It feels as if the camera starts up faster now…always better when something feels faster
@Cypress feels faster here too, I wonder if this is because we still haven’t loaded hundreds of applications on the device yet
Mar 26th, 2008 at 7:31 am
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