N95-3 Gets a Firmware Update - Sort of…
I was pretty excited when I woke up this morning and read that an updated firmware version is now available for the US variant of the N95. On the heels of the Euro N95’s recent major firmware update I had BIG expectation for this release! Demand paging for one, speedier camera and gallery applications, and so on. Of course Nokia doesn’t make their change logs available so someone had to be the guinea pig…
Poor PseudoFinn (of Nokiausers.net)! As you can see in his thread on Jaiku, the new UPDATE doesn’t seem to UPDATE much at all. So far the standout changes include… A menu entry for the music store (which isn’t live yet) and DRM support.
Had Nokia complied and released a simple change log PseudoFinn might have found something a bit more productive to do in the early hours of the morning. Instead he gets to spend a good portion of his day reinstalling and reconfiguring his N95. And for what?
Sure there are likely several ‘behind the scenes’ updates but we have no idea. The bottom line is that a simple change log would have helped PseudoFinn (and thousands of others) make an educated decision as to whether or not the update was worth the time it takes to reconfiguring the device. Clearly this is an update he would have skipped. Click through to read his post and feel free to leave a comment to try to console him - right now a bottle of 16-year old scotch is his only comfort. :(
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It's truly buggered my day. I wish for a changelog every time an update is released- this time it would have been very beneficial to me, and countless others as you've mentioned.
I'm mostly pained that I had incorrectly assumed that this would have been like the mega update that we saw two weeks ago on the old school N95-1. It's my fault for assuming these things, but again- a change log would have saved me some grief.
Cheers, mate!
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Would also be helpful if installed apps could be backed up onto memory card and reinstalled by restoring from it.
Nokia need to look into making a more intelligent firmware updating system with minimal change to actual content having to be reinstalled every time a firmware change happens.
But mainly a change log would be definitely be welcomed!
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