n95 v31.0.017 - it's crap(pier) !

I've got to admit that I'm a sucker when it comes to firmware updates for my smartphones. I always hope to get them updates ASAP often even ending up changing my product code to get it earlier. And I ended up getting the crappy v31. Not only did the bloody update make me loose my cracked nGage gaming but it ended up getting immunity from HelloCarbide and friends. And then, just as i was getting over it comes up more bugs.. :

• Time-Warp Problem
  

Switch off your phone before midnight and when you wake up the next day you've moved 2 whole days into the future ! Well not exactly, but the thing is the phone's date is wrong. For ex: 12.04.09 becomes 14.04.09 over the day.

• The Pestering Wife Problem

Imagine you've got to wake up at 7AM on Sunday to go to your in-laws home, and you set-up an alarm on your phone; but then it's a Sunday ! So you deactivate the alarm. And then by Sunday evening if you re-activate the alarm to wake-up the next day it'll first go on to remind you that you had put an alarm for that morning and then it'll give you a ear-full of the alarm tone until you snooze or dip it in water.

• Not an Audiophile

It doesn't do music playback during calls as seamlessly as it used to. In v31, if you play the music during a call when the ringtone (trin..trin) is heard then as soon as the recipient answers the call it'll pause itself and you have to play it again. Bad.

• GPRS has it's own tone

Now whenever I use GPRS, there's a high frequency tone that comes up when the data transfer takes place. Don't know if it was there before, but it sure is irritating.

N95 classic gets v30 - hurray!

An updated firmware, v30.0.015, has been made available for the Nokia
N95 classic. Updates include the latest versions of Nokia service
applications (Nokia Maps 2.0, Share online 3.0), inclusion of the full
N-Gage client and smaller updates to a number of applications. The
updates also adds automatic screen rotation to the N95 classic while removing the rotation when the phone changes to multimedia mode using the slider. While the update is being introduced elsewhere, it has still not been made available in India for this regions product codes. }:(

Ofcourse a lot of people are very much appreciative of the new firmware update.

Slightly older models have lots of advantages:

- More reliable firmware thanks to updates (or if there aren't many updates, such as on the N93, you'll know to avoid the phone by then)

- More reliable hardware, as they will have had time to sort out manufacturing problems

- Much, much cheaper than the launch price because early adopters aren't buying any more

- Easier to get hold of as there won't be supply problems with older models

- Lots of compatible accessories

- Greater choice of colours

- Developers will have had plenty of time to make their apps compatible with the model
Really the main reason people buy phones close to their release dates is just to show off about it and feel like they're at the cutting edge, but that's just an emotional advantage rather than a practical one.

If you mainly want a phone for practical purposes, buying a model released 12 or 18 months ago is actually a very good idea.

The N95 is the perfect example of this, it was an appallingly unstable and expensive device at its launch in early 2007 but it's now a good solid fully-featured reasonably-priced and reliable all-round multimedia device.

as said by Tzer2.
Seen or heard about the Nokia N95 Smoked Edition?