Nokia Speaks, N95 NAM Update in Early June
We had heard from our own sources that the firmware update would be available by the end of this month but since this statement was issued publicly, we’ll run with it. According to a Nokia support forum administrator, N95 NAM (N95-3) owners will soon be able to wipe those tears off of their tired faces. The long-awaited and highly anticipated firmware update is finally going to be issued by Nokia in early June. The following statement is from the Nokia Software Update team:
Nokia is aware of consumers’ demand for a new software release, and our development teams are working to produce the new software as soon as possible. We estimate that the new software should be available early June.
Please note that your mobile service provider, operator, or carrier may not have approved the latest Nokia device firmware available. Nokia produces many different variants of each product (for different countries and languages) and not all variants will have the latest Nokia device firmware. It is our priority to update all variants as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any delay.
To say that the update has taken an incredibly long time would be an amazing understatement. While the official change log is unavailable, we can expect the new firmware to support demand paging, web runtime and all the other goodies that other N95 variants have been enjoying for a while. Sweet.
[Via Symbian-Guru]
(from my post on BGR)
Blastfm - Finally a Last.fm Player for S60… Maybe
Thanks to Gerry Moth, a man I’m loving more with each passing minute, I am in the process of trying what looks to be the first functional Last.fm player for S60. It’s called Blastfm and it was built in Python. Sure, it’s not the optimal solution but beggers can’t be choosers! The app is in beta so be kind, but it allows you to stream various Last.fm stations and that is exactly what we’ve been looking for.
The problem - so far I’m not having any luck with it at all on my N95 8GB NAM. The app crashes with a System error (-2) as soon as I hit OK after entering my Last.fm credentials. I’m going to keep trying though because I’ve been waiting for this functionality forever…
Try it out, the download link is in the Nokia Addict post. Also, be sure to pay homage to M3 Solutions for putting this puppy together - if you can get it working! Make sure you read the Nokia Addict post before you try to install it!
UPDATE: Still not working for me guys. I’m giving up for now - let me know how it works out for you!
Hello Disqus, Goodbye Comments
Disqus, the oh-so-awesome comment management system that I use on all of my other blogs, can now be found on SiMo! Woo hoo! SiMo readers will now see much more organized comments beneath each post. What you won’t see however, is the thousands of comments that had been present on SiMo posts. Sorry guys - unfortunately Disqus doesn’t currently support importing old comments. If there’s something in particular you were looking for, just shoot me an email and I’ll see what I can do to dig it up for you.
If you’re not already registered with Disqus, I highly recommend you do so. Rather than just seeing a string of sequential comments, Disqus provides a tree-like structure allowing you to reply to individual comments so that various conversations can take place in an organized manner. If you are a registered Disqus member, you will receive email notifications whenever someone replies to one of your comments. What’s more, you can simply reply to the email with your response and it will be posted here on SiMo in the appropriate place. Sweet!
As a new feature that was just added, Disqus now supports video commenting as well thanks to Seesmic. This means that you can add video responses that will be posted in line if you so choose. I can’t say I’m a huge fan of the concept, but it’s there if you want it.
So give it a whirl and if you have your own blog, I highly recommend that you consider using Disqus to manage your comments.
Congrats to the Psiloc Connect Contest Winners!
All I can say is… WOW! I definitely didn’t expect so many entries for this contest - I ended up with just over 50. I also had no idea just how creative some SiMo readers are! Narrowing this down to four winners was unbelievably difficult. In fact I ended up narrowing it down to 10 entries and using a random number generator to pick the four winners. A big thanks to all of my great readers who took the time to submit a photo and if you weren’t one of the lucky winners this time, don’t despair. There will be plenty more opportunities in the future to score some free stuff so stay tuned.
In the meantime, a big congratulations are in order for our four winners!
Peter S:
Giovani D:
Robert K:
(yes, that’s really his hand :) )
And last but certainly not least, Sergio S:
I’m sending out the prizes right now so winners should find their free licenses before they even see this post. A big thanks once again to everyone who entered this content and to Psiloc for making a great app and giving it away for free to a few lucky SiMo readers.
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New “Open to Anything Commercial” Featuring The Amazing Stan
Nokia’s Open to Anything line of viral commercials are great. Above, the latest addition can be seen featuring “The Amazing Stan”. Very cute. Actually, I missed the ball a while back when the great folks at WOM World sent me a little packing containing the competitive eating commercial (hotdog eating competition lover) packed with a cute little surprise. I was a bit busy at teh time and completely forgot to post about it. Well, better late than never I suppose. While I didn’t find the surprise overly tasty, my dog Thunder disagreed…
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