N95 Firmware update (21.0.0.016)

A new version of the firmware for the Nokia N95 was released yesterday. (The change log can be found at the end of this post)

So far i have only noticed a few differences, one being that the gallery is now much quicker to display thumbnails of your pictures. Another notable change is the introduction of Widget support. These are essentially the same as applications but they run in a web runtime, and can be used to display information from battery life to rss feeds to currency conversion rates. At the moment i’ve only found a couple that are of any real use but i’m sure more will appear as more people get this update.

I will post again if i discover anything else that has changed which makes a noticeable difference to how the phone works…

Version 21.0.0.016
12-03-08
RM-159
Nokia N95 (01.01)Official Nokia Changelog
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

This firmware is available from Nokia at http://www.europe.nokia.com/softwareupdate