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6 Month ago, I started this bog, with limited expectations and unlimited ideas, I never dreamed of the traffic and readership I get right now, My expectations of the number of visitors per month is exceeded daily, I have grown in love with blogging all because of you, My way of writing changed through this amazingly small period of time, I got to know amazing bloggers, and got to trial amazing devices from the one company I love.

All I’m thinking right now is Oh Crap! If I write all these things now, I get to write nothing on my blogoversary day “Anniversary”

Because of the limited possibilities of a wordpress.com blog, I made the decision of moving months before today, and the only thing that delayed the process of moving all this long, is mysterious problems facing me, I faced delays at the bank “When I issued my internet card, and during transactions as well”, I faced delays during the process of purchasing hosting, but finally I got through all of this, and frankly, it’s all worth it.

The Blog has been renamed to Nseries Blog instead of N95 Blog, because I felt that the name is so limited, and that I shouldn’t have blogged about anything but the N95, the new URL is www.nseriesblog.com .

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Thank you for giving me such opportunity,

Kirollos Fares

Nokia N95’s new firmware version is available now for download via Nokia Software Updater, The new V21 version contains dramatic changes including: Flash Lite 3 and Widget Support, with lots of bug-fixes.

In order to have the new firmware installed on your N95, you need to download and install Nokia Software Updater on your PC.

The process of updating my N95 is done, but frankly, I’m not 100% happy about the new firmware, for instance, Because till now the N95 doesn’t support User Data Preservation, The Update will “As Always” delete everything on the phone memory, and will ruin most installed applications on your device, The first problem is easily solved by backing up your phone memory, but the second one’s solution is a bit pain in the ass, which to install every app you had again, something that’ll keep me busy during the day!

But still, I got Flash Lite, Viewing videos on my N95 is really amusing, guess I won’t be using emtube no more, but the only problem about video viewing is power usage, My N95’s battery lasted for a record breaking 3-4 hours! so it’s advisable to view videos only when your N95 is plugged into the wall.

Steve Litchfield from All About Symbian wrote an excellent guide on how to set up Push Gmail on your S60-Powered device, The term pushing e-mail means receiving e-mails you’re sent the moment it hits your e-mail account on your mobile phone, it was first introduced by Blackberry.

This excellent Guide will guide you through setting your Gmail Mailbox, and enabling auto-retrieval of e-mails every 5 minutes or so, It only took me only 5 minutes to set this up, and till now it saved me tons of minutes as I don’t have to keep signing in my gmail every minute or so, when an e-mail comes, the phone will buzz!

New dead sexy colour will be released for the N95-1, But those lucky Japanese people, Not only do they get good sushi, but an exclusive blue N95 colour!
The Brand new Blue N95s will be sold exclusively via Softbank, A Japanese carrier.

So, I’d totally appreciate it if one of my Japanese readers bought the new blue N95, Ripped the back off, and sent it to me via mail “E-mail me for the address” :p

Nokia, Please universalize your covers, right now there’s blue N95s in Japan, Black and Pink N95s in Italy, Red N95s in the US and Hollow N95s in Egypt “That means that they’re not sold here, or by other words, Banned!“

Source: Symbian Guru , Some sort of a Japanese website

The so called First Access of N-gage is ending on march 27th according to N-Gage Blog, No one’s sure whether they’ll release the final version directly after that, and the end of the first access period means that Nokia no longer supports the first access N-gage app, and that all you’ve done raising your N-Gage points and your saved games will be struck by a tsunami once you install the full release of N-Gage “In other words, it’ll be gone!”, Which is something really annoying, I don’t care about the points, but I worked hard playing creatures of the deep, and I certainly don’t want to lose that data.

I almost forgot to write about the giveaway part, I’m sure that made you rethink reading this post, Nokia wants to reward all N-gagers out there, for trying out the service, and If you fill in the survey “Subject:N-Gage ofcourse, you’ll recieve by e-mail an activation code for an upcoming Mile High Pinball game” and 1000 community points.

I previously summed up my thoughts about the First Access here.

I know I’m very late on reporting this, But John from Telefon-Treff.de posted pictures showing the N95, E51, E90 along with other phones fully supporting the upcoming 16GB MicroSDHC card from Sandisk, which adds itself on the list of why N95-1 “Original N95″ is better than N95 8GB “With no MicroSD port, N95 8GB users are not benefiting from the solo Sandisk MicroSDHC race!”

Over at MobyMemory, Online prices for this baby is down to £29.99 , which is approximately equal to 60$, so now seems to be the perfect time to shop for the 8GB MicroSDHC!

Fadi Chehimi and Paul Coulton from Forum Nokia Blogs  succeeded in developing the first 3D Game that is fully controlled by the accelerometer chip, which is something Huge in compared with the first basic accelerometer game “Accelerinvaders“, And is one step closer to having professional accelerometer N-gage games.

The goal of the game is to collect as many gold and silver flying-in-the air coins as you can by moving your phone and tilting it, There is two choices for the game background, a virtual background, or a real camera shot background.

Download the game now from Mosh.

Today, Nokia released this press release announcing officially the much rumored Black N82, which adds a touch of elegancy to this camera powerhouse, It’ll ship within weeks and will be on sale for 400€ before taxes and subsidies.

The press release also mentioned some info about the ability of the N82 to upload videos directly to youtube which is currently not available for N82 users “Correct me if I’m wrong”, So could this be a hint

from Nokia that the N82 is expecting a firmware update real soon?!, could be!!

If you’re not familiar with the N82, The N82 is an S60 V3 Device, featuring a whopping 5 Megapixel Camera “Carl Zeiss Lens” with Xenon Flash, It also features WiFi, Built-in GPS Chip, 3.5G Connectivity and an expandable MicroSD Port.

Nokia is regarded as the largest cellphone-manufacturing company in the world, but it’s after purchase phone support doesn’t match it’s elite role in the cellphone market.
Some phones get tens of firmware updates (like the N73 that got updated to v4.0808.4.2.2), some get frequent updates ( like the N95-1), and some don’t get any updates at all ( like the N95-3, and that’s pissing off a lot of people for example Ricky Cadden).

It’s very clear that Nokia’s main goal is achieving the highest profit, no one can’t blame them for that, But sometimes the customer is deeply hurt by such policy, Their way of handling Phone releases and updates really prove the fact, like releasing N95-2 “N95 8GB” in the US, and few months after that announcing it’s US variant, Couldn’t just Nokia announce both phones at the same time?! “If they need the extra 10,000 unit sale, maybe they should think of releasing Egypt Variant! yes, Egypt variant Nseries devices with no GPS on board, but that’s not the point here”

Nokia doesn’t seem to upgrade all the specs in one phone, it gradually updates their specs in each phone to keep customers hungry for more, and subsequently selling more phones, That doesn’t mean that Nokia’s lineup is an oldy one, They have got the best equipped devices, but Nokia is capable of creating devices much better than last announcement’s phones “N96, N78″.

Nokia’s new firmware releases rarely have anything new, and most of the firmware updates are for bug fixes only unlike other manufacturers, I can’t believe I’m saying this, But Apple really leads the market on after-purchase support, each new firmware version of the iPhone has lots of new tweaks, updates and tons of applications and options, If we take Microsoft for example, when it released new Zune models with brand new Menu structure, it updated previous Zunes, and didn’t keep ‘em with their sluggish menu, And that’s what I want Nokia to do, to offer the opportunity of expanding the possibilities and performance of current S60 V3 FP1 devices by enabling paid upgrades to S60 V3 FP2, Which is said to have major new options, Graphic interface and most importantly, Better usage of power.

Offering a Paid option of upgrading to S60 V3 FP2 for Users will be one hell of a give and take deal, Nokia will profit from the increasing number of customers that don’t afford to get the N96, but can pay an extra dime for that new S60 Version.

Finally, Don’t expect to hear about this from Nokia, They are not going to do such procedure, It’s just fantasies by me