Nokia N95 new firmware 31.0.014 december 2008.

Nokia has released another firmware update for its once flagship N95 handset. The all-in-one smartphone was released two years ago, and it still has somewhat respectable specs boasting HSDPA and WiFi connectivity, 5 megapixel camera, and a whole lot more.
The firmware version 31.0.014 is 140MB heavy download, and you can already grab it through Nokia Software Updater or Nokia PC Suite. As usual, it is suggested that you backup all your data prior to pushing the trigger.
Unfortunately, we don’t know what exactly has been changed, but it’s safe to bet a number of known bugs have been fixed, some of the apps updated, and the device will be overall more stable after the upgrade. If you notice something interesting upon installing the latest firmware, please let us know.

New firmware 21.0.016 for N95-1 out pretty soon.

The long awaited firmware update for the Nokia N95 seems to come pretty soon to theN95. Yet, I cannot update my N95 from 20.0.015 to 21.0.016 but within the next weeks it should be available for all product codes. The new firmware should bring support for Flash Lite 3 which means that we can watch YouTube videos now in the browser. More over Web runtime should be come too. Below you can read the changes from 20.0.015 to 21.0.016 (SB-107/12.03.08).
New features

* Flash Lite 3 support added
* Widget (Web runtime) support added
* Default year changed to 2008 Improvements
* General stability improvements.
* Pre-defined access point kept after switching to different type SIM card.
* Localization improvements.
* Standby time improvements.
* Improvements to BT headset interoperability.
* Improvement to Calendar data restoring.
* Switch from landscape to portrait mode & screen rotations improvements.
* Browser Improvement to long text writing to web page text boxes.
* Browsing from WLAN wizard improvement.Media Player
* Localizations improvements in Music player.
* Windows Media Player recognizes device as Nokia N95.
* Gallery Image rotation improvement in album view.
* Gallery & Slideshow performance improvements.
* Messagin Improvement to SMS reception.
* Java Midlet installation improvement.
* Improvement to Java application start.
* Java midlet certificate checking improvement.Navigation
* General improvements to Maps application.
* Localization correction to Search in Maps application.
* Improvement to Navigate To -function when started from search application.
* SIM Contact names with accents and more than 11 characters can be copied to SIM card.

Good/Best Applications recommended by forumers for your N95

This is a list of the best applications recommended by the All About Symbian Forums users.

1. Nokia Accelerometer App - Free

2. RomateMe - Donate for a beta version, to be released as freeware eventually.

3. Flip Silent - Freeware for early versions & Donate for latest versions

4. Nokia Activity Monitor - Free and dev comes to forum.

5. Nokia Sports Tracker - Free

6. EmTube - Free

7. Google Maps/Earth - Freeware

8. Opera Mobile or Opera Mini - or use your phone browser to go to mini.opera.com - Opera Mobile $24/Opera Mini Free.

9. SMS Spam Manager - $9.90

10. Advanced Call Manager - $19.99

11. Fring - Free

12. Slick IM - Free (In beta stage)

13. Total recall - $14.95

14. Nokia Conversation - Free

15. SkyeQuiKey - $25.95

16. ScreenShot - Free

17. TomTom - £66 and up

18. Garmin MobileXT - £76.59 +VAT

19. PhoneTunes - Free

20. PhonePoint / PhoneFile / PhoneSreen - Free

21. Internet Radio - Free from your Download! section on N95

22. Lightsabre - Free and developer is AAS forumer visitor too.

23. Sky Anytime - Free with Sky+ box

24. Tracker - $19.95 (regimorales #24-25)

25. Best Profiles - $11.95

26. Solun-U, mikerhodes recommends this star gazing app.

27. Handy Taskman $19.99 - FazyCruck [/b](#27-28) says excellent replacement for the task manager in Symbian. Shows RAM/Phone/SD Card usage

28. MobiReader - Free - eBook Reader, very handy

29. http://www.viewranger.com/phonesupport.php - Sturgeon (#29) says, "ViewRanger will display maps, record tracks, navigate, show points-of-interest and display its panorama without requiring a mobile network connection. However, to use the Buddy Beacon, or to share images, notes and points-of-interest, or to update licensed POI sets, your handset needs to be able to open a data connection to the internet."

30. Y-Browser - Free

31. SExplorer - Free

32. QuickOffice - Free from the Office folder, or upgrade to full edit suite - chrsfrwll/zxon recommend it highly for anyone needing a more editable mobile office solution.

33. Handysafe (commercial). (chrsfrwll says the following comments for #33-#40) Great for encrypted storage of data

34. HandyWeather - Weather forecasts all the time with very nice graphics. Also nice screensaver. (commercial)

35. ProfileMail - essential client for POP3/IMAP (commercial)

36.Coreplayer (beta and commercial, and yes why pay for a beta??) - great media player with Divx support

37. Resco Viewer - much better than the in built gallery (commercial)

38. PanoMan - create very good 360 degree panoramic images easily (commercial but cheap)

39. SIC! FTP - best FTP client for the N95 and it's free.

40. FreeRange - Great RSS client. (Commercial)

41. Smart Light - Badgerman(#41,42,43) says, I really like Smart Light by Phone Phreak. It means when ever running an app or menu the back light remains on, great for photos etc. Commercially available (http://www.my-symbian.com/s60/softwa...2&fldAuto=1803)

42. best alarm

43. HourPower

44. BT Switch, regimorales (#44&45) says, BT Switch literally does just that, so you don't have to go into your blue tooth app; just click on it and it turns bluetooth on or off. (download at bottom of post)

45. Reboot - Same goes for Reboot, when I need to free up RAM.

46. Yahoo Go 2.0 - http://uk.mobile.yahoo.com/go says beefyn70 (version 3.0 here, thanks ccraig)

47. Navicore. Commercial navigation. Much better than Garmin in my opinion. Works with internal GPS. (robgreb's 2p's worth for #47-#57)

48. Agile Messenger. Commercial IM client. Works with most IM services.

49. A-Z Maps. Commercial map program. Reproduces the London and Birmingham A-Zs on your phone. No navigation features, sadly.

50. DivX Player. Free beta version. Plays DivX movie files.

51. Collins dictionaries. Commercial translation dictionaries. French, Spanish and German. Have useful features like a verb conjugator.

52. Metro. Freeware text-based guides to getting around numerous cities.

53. TBA

54. Nokia Worldmate. Commercial application, but free version available with fewer features. Weather, world map and currency rates.

55. Putty and VNC2go. Free applications for accessing computers remotely.

56. ShazamID. Free (for the time being) beta of a music identification service. Record 10 seconds of music, and the application will identify the track. Works about 70% of the time, in my experience.

57. Active Notes. Free Nokia application that allows you to create multimedia notes.

58. Shut up V1.0, - Badgerman says donate to Samir to get until free release later this year...

59. Joikuspot - I (#59 -60) say this is a great app for travelling with laptop/IpodTouch etc to share your 3G connection over wifi.

60. Barak's SignMe! free beta version that will batch sign sis files for you. Still requires setup thru symbiansigned, but once done its simple stuff.

61. Handy Calendar, which neilhoskins (#61,62) says beats the pants off the built-in one and

62. Calcium calculator

63. Free Beer from pyPiwo, I think its most amusing down the pub when everyone is too drunk to think properly ;o)

Tag your N95 photos with a GPS position

From the Nokia N95 forum.

Nokia Beta Labs has released yet another cool application. This one is named Location Tagger and that is exactly what it does. It tags your photos, taken with your N95, with a GPS location. Furthermore you can upload these tagged photos to photo sharing sites such as Flickr, Panoramio or Picasa web so that you can share photo and location with your friends.


Overview
With Nokia Location Tagger, you can automatically tag your location data to your pictures. As you take a picture, your GPS coordinates are saved to the EXIF header of the JPEG file. You can use this data later, for example, to locate your pictures on a map.

In the near future, we hope to make location tagging a seamlessly integrated part of your Nokia experience. Until then, Nokia Location Tagger is a small standalone application that gives you a sneak preview. We are not planning to productize this application as such, but we’d love to hear your thoughts already now, so that we have time to take it into account in the mainstream development.

Download the application here.

Flip Silent another cool app like Shutup of Samir

There is a buzz going around about this app, works very closely to the Shutup of Samir, check this link for further information. More previews and information at The Symbian Blog
Dear Samir you have a competitor watch out..