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By: Vaibhav Sharma

Vaibhav Sharma — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 08:55:02 +0000

Oh yeah, the accessory has been available for quite a while now, nifty piece. Sadly, there won’t be OTA updates for FP1 devices.

Saw those pictures and they make me look forward to the N96 even more.

By: ashu

ashu — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 05:27:50 +0000

ok. I have the registration codes. So its fine. Its actually worth the effort if your phone gets updated! Wishing for OTA for FP1 also. Did you go thru nick’s review of n 96 on aas? 950 mah is not a bad deal at all. Give it a reading. Night pics are not tried but the daylight ones are just amazing!
Also, mark had a guest at the nokia blog and this fellow stumbled upon an accessory he claims is usb charger. If that is true, n 96 is just as unbeatable as it would get. Check that out and provide us with the insight.

By: Vaibhav Sharma

Vaibhav Sharma — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:41:00 +0000

Ashu, from what I’ve seen so far, its always a good idea to reinstall the applications again. However, certain applications do survive a backup/restore; I’m not sure about the ones you mentioned.

By: ashu

ashu — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:35:54 +0000

will we really lose our apps if we take a back up? Mine is xp and the question is hypothetical as of now since there no recent updates for my n 82. But i have got quite a few licenced softwares. Handy taskman, opera mobile, f secure and all. Will my registration be lost if i take a back up vaibhav?

By: SG

SG — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 07:44:09 +0000

Nokia have recently introduced OTA in N78. They have also launched the first Firmaware Update, which is just 900KB in size. But for users of FP1, I guess we are still stuck with NSU

By: NEo

NEo — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 21:03:49 +0000

What we need is OTA updates…this way the update size is way smaller and its easyier, safer and its the right way to do it…let’s hope nokia wakes up.

By: elias

elias — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:49:52 +0000

This is why I haven’t upgraded my firmware on my N95-3, I’m really afraid I will lost all my data. Maybe my contacts and calendar is not such a big deal, since I can syncronize it with my laptop, but all my expenses info, and all the programs I have installed, will be lost.
I prefer my slow buggish firmware, than losing all my data.

By: novice

novice — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:17:36 +0000

i updated my E51 firmware on vista. was a piece of cake.
well, not exactly coz internet in pakistan is bandwidth deprived and it was a 67MB download, not to mention the double update of software updater itself.

but other than that it was smooth. a few minutes or several seconds don’t mean anything if you are doing something as major as an update. we are re installing the whole operating system, for crying out loud.

and oh, even before this vista update fixing, my cousin updated his E50 (not E51) on my vista laptop without any problems 4-5 months back.

yes i do agree, they should have something better for the applications re-installation. and it yes, it should be one-step like you say in the second last paragraph.

By: Zach

Zach — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:27:10 +0000

I think the ship has sailed in terms of updating earlier OS9 handsets. Plain and simple, we’re just screwed.

Thankfully with FP2 we can now use SSU for OTA updates and it works perfectly with zero data loss (I’ve tested it). It remains to be seen how major updates will work though.

By: Vaibhav Sharma

Vaibhav Sharma — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:05:50 +0000

Of course! Infact it was because of this update that I didn’t think twice before undertaking the procedure.

By: Micky

Micky — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:01:40 +0000

Nokia have recently released a Vista compatible version of NSU, are you using this?