HOT: N95 Classic Firmware Update v21.0.016 is on the Way – including Flash Lite 3 Support

Wow, I have just read over at Symbian-Freak that the N95 will get another unbelievably impressive firmware update.

v21.0.016 is the firmware version we thought would never be released and would be only for developers. It was testable at Nokia’s Remote Device Access and many people wondered why Nokia doesn’t release it.

Now this firmware will finally be made public via the Nokia Software Updater very soon.

The new firmware brings to great new major features:

Full Flash Lite 3 support for the S60 web browser. That means finally full web experience with support for every Flash video based video portal.
We have “MobiTubia” and “emTube” which are nice and probably better to handle solutions to browse and watch YouTube videos, but Flash support for the web browser opens the solution to watch also videos from Dailymotion and all the other online video centrals.

More information how playing Flash videos will work can be seen here.

The second new feature is the support for Widgets. S60 is the first mobile software platform that enables the creation of widgets using familiar standards-based Web technologies. Widget support enhances the Internet experience on a mobile by bringing a personal Web experience to a personal device.
They allow people to personalize Internet content into lightweight Web applications and stay current with the things that matter to them. While widgets have been available on PCs for some time, they bring particular advantages to mobile devices, as mobiles are highly personal and among the few items that we always carry with us.

These two new features were already part of the latest N95 8GB firmware and now N95 Classic users will also be able to enjoy Flash and Widgets support. That makes the N95 even more interesting as it is at the moment, maybe even more than the N95 8GB which lacks the camera lens protectora and a MicroSD slot…

Apart from this great new major features, there will be the normal bug fixes and stability improvements.

Symbian-Freak has furthermore the full change log from a trusted source, so enjoy and hope that the firmware will be available VERY soon:

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.