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Great news for all N95-1 users like me, Nokia today released the new firmware version V30.0.015 on Nokia Software Updater, till now there’s no changelog apperaing, no details about it, I’m currently updating my phone but the internet is not helping.

To update your phone, download NSU on your PC machine and make sure you backed up the phone memory onto the memory card.

I’ll keep this post updated as soon as I have the 30.0.015 up and running on my N95.

Update: it took a long while to install the new firmware on my phone, and to tell ya the truth, the firmware is amazing, Automatic screen rotation is there (disabled by deafult), the N95 8GB theme is in there, updates to the music application, new Maps 2.0, N-Gage 2.0, new Download, search application updated, Flash lite 3 updates and lots more under the hood.

Source: P@sco

Today, Nokia started shipping it’s flagship Nseries device, the N96 after months of speculations about the release date.

If You’re not familiar with the N96, it’s Nokia’s top-notch device with 16 GB on board memory, a 2.8” LCD screen, 5 Megapixel camera with dual LED flash, WiFi, 3.5G HSDPA and of course GPS.

The N96 will be available on sale for 550€ before taxes and subsidies, and as reports are coming from reviews, it’s performance is not as high as it’s price.

Read the press release

Other newly announced device along the N85 is the N79, believed to be the upgrade of the not-so-old N78, The N79 supports a 5 Megapixel camera with dual LED Flash which is an upgrade of the 3.2 Megapixel one found in the N78, but other than that, nothing has changed a lot, except the design.

Other specs include GPS chip, WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, a smallish 2.4” screen with no OLED, the key lock introduced in the N81, a 3.5mm audio output jack, 3.5G HSDPA and though this phone was announced coincidently with the N85, it doesn’t support USB charging through the MicroUSB port “wouldn’t it be great if every Nokia design team get together and try to implement minor changes on each phone like the USB charging, because it’s weird not to see that implemented in the N79”.

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In an event in London, Nokia announced the newest member in the Nseries family, the N85, at the first glance, this phone looks similar to the N81 “Typical”, and sports nearly the same specs of the Nseries devices i.e. The 5 Megapixel camera, GPS and WiFi, but with MAJOR changes when It comes to the Screen, Connectivity, USB Charging and Battery usage.

New stuff in this device include tri-band HSDPA (900/1900/2100), Something we’ve all been dying for which is USB Charging through the MicroUSB port and a newly introduced OLED 2.6” Screen that is supposed to bring better colour combinations and improve visibility and at the same time dramatically cut the battery usage of the 1200 mAH battery that has an average stand-by time of a whopping 363 hours, also the device comes with an 8GB MicroSD cart which is kinda nice and prevents the User’s memory hassles. Read the rest of this entry »

Nokia Beta Labs just announced the brand new A-GPS beta application for the N810 that is is supposed to dramatically decrease the GPS lock time.

And as usual, because the project was just announced, the link is totally screwed up :P. so you might have to keep an eye on this URL as it’ll be updated in hours with the download link, and possibly some screenshots.

But it’s a good thing to see Nokia Beta Labs starting to develop applications for the Internet Tables, As far as I know this is the first Tablet-related project announced by the Beta Labs, and it looks like it’s a good start.

That’s all I’ve got now since as I said before the link is not working as the app was just announced, but I shall update this post with more details and screenshots once the website is up.

Updated: It seems that the link is now working, the application is only 4 KBs and requires an Internet Tablet with OS2008 Installed.