There is a new N80's firmware version V5.0719.0.2 available since May. Feedback on this most recent version has been positive at many forum boards. Many think it's a relief of their currently very buggy v4.0707.0.7 firmware and experience far more stable and slightly better performance -- mainly with photo galley. Some even commented that the photo quality & memory management are also improved. Someone posted the following informal change log:
Messaging -
- Correction for SMS receiving problems
- Correction for received SMS timestamps
- General stability improvements for Messaging application
- Fix for Freemail email download
WLAN -
- Correction for using WLAN wizard from Active Standby in encrypted networks. WLAN wizard help localisation corrections
- Correction for VoIP call when in edge of WLAN coverage
Diverses -
- Correction for USSD commands
- Fix for voice activated dialling and contact name playback
- Fixes for forwarding DRM protected content
- Fix for Multimedia key customization
It is still not yet available for my phoneset (model 0543906) at the online Nokia firmware update service; but I managed to upgrade it at the Nokia service centre. I have so far not experienced any problems so I consider that I'm lucky :) However, I have not discovered any noticeable improvement either, except that the WLAN seems more stable now (WiFi always disconnects gracefully when a user application exits). The photo galley is not noticeably faster, though probably due to that I store large photos on the 1GB memory card instead of the phone memory. It can zoom-in to 50% that is probably enough for usual cases; but anything beyond that will cause insufficient memory alert.
After re-install the default smartphone software such as Quickoffice, Adobe, SettingWizard & Nokia Search to the memory card, I managed to get 38MB free phone memory (out of total 47MB shared with the system). However, I still can't run the web browser or Yahoo!go without its automatically killing off all other background applications even if it is tiny like Screenshot.
Besides, I've some additional minor complains:
- the warning tone is pretty loud
- After the display goes off, the screen remains light up for about 30 sec. before completely dark. This consumes unnecessary battery power.
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The email notification (on the idle screen) became unavailable after the upgrade, so I've to go 'message' to check if new email arrives. It previously worked well on the old firmware version.
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