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Nokia N97 Firmware 2.0 is finally available

Remember that Firmware 2.0 hands-on video I reported about nearly 2 months ago? Well it’s now a reality, Nokia has finally release the 2.0 update for the N97…

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Remember that Firmware 2.0 hands-on video I reported about nearly 2 months ago? Well it’s now a reality, Nokia has finally release the 2.0 update for the N97. Here’s the change log:

Improvements in firmware 20.2.019 are:

A reworked memory mapping model – this means that applications use the (relatively) limited RAM much more efficiently and you should rarely see any memory errors. Note that the available ‘Free RAM’ after booting is now a lot less (around 47MB), but don’t take this raw number too literally – apps apparently use less RAM than before

Kinetic scrolling in the User Interface in all lists and larger-than-screen views

The keyboard driver has been enhanced so that a long press on any key brings up its associated ‘function’ symbol (or number)

Music player shows album art more reliably, plus extra MP3 ID3 information

Half a dozen new social media and services widgets have been added by default

Camera still and video improvements

Improvements to stereo speaker volume

Offline mode for homescreen widgets (shown below)

The N-Gage client is now included (shown below, saving 10MB of your C disk, compared to the current situation)
(apparently not in the final distro after all)

Ovi Maps 3 is now included (shown below, saving 7MB of your C disk, compared to the current situation)

Ovi Contacts and Ovi Store clients now integrated (saving more space) (Ovi Contacts also not in the final distribution as expected)

More responsive touchscreen driver (so fewer ‘missed taps’) and the usual minor bug fixes across the board

Improvements to Sync system (hopefully paving the way for more reliable syncing with, among others, iSync on the Mac)

The v20.2.019 firmware is now available via Nokia Software Update.

Source: AllboutSymbian

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