Hi, OK I upgraded my Orange N95 mobile phone v11.0.026 using the various tips and and hints and help offered here by other forum members - so thanks.
One of the main issues I have encountered (both before and after upgrading) is WLAN performance - or specifically media streaming - which is what I use the WLAN for most. Let me just say that I have a super stable wireless LAN home set up I use a US Robotics USR9108 - which although it might seem an odd choice - is noted by anyone who knows anything about wireless routers for it's super stable and ultra reliable performance.
Well anyway, for the longest time I have used Orb http://www.orb.com/ to stream my media to all of my portable WiFi enabled devices (I'm a gadget nut so I tend to get few a through of these).
However the performance of RealPlayer when watching videos streamed via Orb really sucks, I get about a minute of video followed by 15 seconds of 'buffering', followed by a minute of video and then 15 seconds of 'buffering' and so on and on it goes - making video virtually impossible to watch.
When it comes to music, I get the weird result whereby I can stream almost exactly 4 songs (depending on length) from any album, before the WLAN craps out and gives me a 'server time' out message. I am not sure what this is about at all, or why it is so precise before the server times out.
Are there any services that work well with the N95? Orb hasn't ever really given me an issue before.
The other thing I found a bit strange was the vertical screen position when watching streamed videos in RealPlayer. It seems totally weird that there we have quite a bit of quite nice screen real estate that isn't being used. Surely the best screen orientation for almost all appropriately formatted video is in the horizontal 'wide screen' position, rather than the vertical position?
Next I was told that upgrading the firmware would enable VOIP functionality on my phone. But I can't find this anywhere. Is there a tutorial anywhere on how to go about this - or can anyone here offer any hints or tips?
The other thing I found (but which isn't so easy to fix) is having the keys at the wrong angle when web browsing. If you flip to a horizontal (wide screen) orientation for web browsing, the keys are just really awkward to use - as they remain in a vertical position.
I keep finding myself wanting to flip the n95 main slider screen about a central axis (in addition to sliding out so that the phone forms a T shape so that both the screen and the keys are correctly oriented with each other. (But obviously that is just a current design limitation of this particular phone). I think really the biggest problem is that the lack of a touch screen on a phone of this calibre is really a very limiting factor when it comes to web browsing.
Also I was wondering if there was such a thing as homebrew for the N95 - or if not if there was any commercial apps. that could be bought for it?
If so where might I find out what these are and where to buy them?