N95 Firmware v21.0.0.16 Out! (..for certain product codes)

Here we go again, according to SymbianWorld and SymbianFreak, there seems to be another firmware coming for the N95 Classic (aka N95-1). It's already available for certain product codes, but not all yet. If you're really desperate for this it is readily available at Nokia Service Centres. The new firmware should incorporate Flash Lite 3 which means that we can now watch YouTube videos in the default browser. More over Web runtime should be coming as well. Not much thrills about watching YouTube through the web browser as for now MobiTubia, emTube as well as the official YouTube mobile application provides a very comfortable way of viewing videos.

Here are the changes from 20.0.015 to 21.0.016 (SB-107/12.03.08)

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.

So it looks like Nokia is really living up to their reputation and didn't let us N95-1 users down as we though early last year. First we got A-GPS, then Demand Paging, N-gage, better power management, and now Flash Light 3 and Widget support! With all these new improvements coming along, there's no doubt at all that the N95 Classic (N95-1) is the BEST Nokia Nseries for now. We do hope that Nokia continues to improve this device as much as they can, much like they've done for the N73.