Nokia N95-3 update released early, performance improved

by Tim Stevens, posted May 26th 2008 at 1:07PM

Last week Nokia promised an update was coming to the North American version its venerable N95, the N95-3. But, the company played coy and failed to mention any details other than availability in "early June." We're not even out of May yet but the 20.2.011 firmware update is ready and initial reports are good. Boot time has been reduced to 19-seconds from about 30, camera start-up is now a quite snappy two seconds, support for Flash video has been added, and there's even a suite of new N-Gage game demos included in the deal. That's the sort of update we can sink our teeth into -- even if European N95-1 users have already been chewing it for months.

[Via Part-time phone reviewer; thanks Moses]

Filed under: Software, Nokia, Symbian

Tags: breaking news, BreakingNews, firmware, n95, n95-3, nokia, update, upgrade

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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derX @ May 26th 2008 2:51PM

Better question: Are you making any good comments?
The answer: No.

....damn spammers and on Memorial Day.

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Donald @ May 26th 2008 3:07PM

Any reports of demand paging?

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momchil karabulev @ May 26th 2008 3:28PM

according to allaboutsymbian.com there is demand paging

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Donald @ May 26th 2008 3:54PM

Sweet.

Now, I bricked one phone over the weekend, do I dare risk another one...?

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carlo2 @ May 26th 2008 5:53PM

Downloading as we speak!!!!

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carlo2 @ May 26th 2008 6:18PM

There are a lot of random picayune changes, like now it knows I have ATT instead of saying MediaNet and all of that, and there is a new music player visualization.

The changes appear to be "minor" but MANY.

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niftydl @ May 26th 2008 7:36PM

Nokia WTF! Finally, got your stuff together and gave us NAM users a break, kudos. Hopefully this is some kind of lesson learned for the future.

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Tor Slettnes @ May 27th 2008 2:46AM

Lesson? Heh. I can hear the laughter all the way from Espoo..

Now how about another one (for both the N95-3 and N95-4) with the auto-screen-rotate that was added to the -1 and -2 recently?

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Tor Slettnes @ May 27th 2008 3:51AM

Hey, it's not just the N95-3 - there is also an update for the N95-4:

Nokia N95 8GB (RM-421)

Firmware Version

Current: 1.2.011
Update: 20.2.005

I'll try it now... :)

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honeybie @ May 28th 2008 8:11PM

..tried updating the firmware of my N95-3 only to find out that the Nokia Software Updater has a Vista compatibility issue and it said it does not support Vista for now! Does anyone here successfully flashed their N95-3 phone using Vista (by changing their computer's compatibility with an XP)? i just don't want to force it and might end up having a brick phone! which i already did in the past.

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