Improved powermanagement in the N95's v20 firmware!!
Menneisyys at the All About Symbian Forum has been testing the new v20 firmware released for the N95 classic.
He states that multimedia playback battery life tests show that the new v20 with DVFS (Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling) versus the v12 firmware gives a improved battery life for low power music playback (WMA) of 45%.
I wonder if works for MP4 videorecording and playback too!
It seems the N95 is full of hidden easter eggs. Accellerometers, improved battery life, improved GPS. We can only guess what will happen next. Full flash support for youtube? Finally WMV support? Skype with video support?
Or will a touchscreen appear magically? What unknown technological 93i-ish transformations can we expect?
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I'm used to software upgrades, but hardware upgrades with out buying anything extra is a new one.
Thanks for the 'heads up.'
I definately have been enjoying the new firmware update for my N95; it's becoming more of what I thought it should be in the first place (in particular, the new RAM management). But I didn't even know about this added benifit!
But I have to agree with a comment on one of the blogs that you've kindly provided link to...
That this is where the N95 should have been at launch.
I reckon this is where the engineers wanted to be at launch, but I can't help thinking that some management type is playing games here.
Of course. It is very obvious that Nokia pushed the N95 early on the market to sell to the early adopters and keep the lead compared to other companies. Otherwise it would have been delayed for 6 months more I think. an engineer will tinker with their designs until you pull it out of their hands or put a deadly line. Deadlines does not occure in a engineers dictionairy
Still I am happy that they did a decent hardware design. I have two peeves on hardware. First the slider click production problem which they seem to have fixed now quite well. Second they should have rotated the camera slider 90 degrees as they did for the N82. Since people tend to put the phone sometimes in their pocket and it opens (boohoo on their commerials ;-) ). Still most other companies made the same stupid mistake. Great they did it on the N82, did they read my blog? Yeah I left out the battery issue ;-)
The software was indeed rushed. It is clearly visible in the original stability and the pink/purple images and more bugs? Still it is the easiest thing to fix after a sale compared to hardware problems. The N95/N93/N82 OMAP platform is a succes and is there to stay. The classic N95 as such is thus the testing ground for the whole new Nokia n-series technology. I can assume that there will be firmware upgrades in the next 6 months at least. I wonder who holds the patents on using the accellerator for the user interface.
In any case I hope that Nokia will split off a beta tester firmware version with a new experimental userinterface design more up to date with current research and developments in that field. Even with a button operated device there are plenty of design improvements in the GUI to be made allowing for a better workflow (software usage). Touchscreens are nice, but only as a supporting inputdevice. The new N810 is a clear signal in that respect.
P.S. Love the visual art on your blog.