I was browsing the dashboard in my Wordpress blog and spotted a link to a post saying that a bl-6f battery from the US N95s can be used in the standard N95s with the help of a crystal case and minus the battery cover...from what I can make out:
http://mynokiablog.com/2007/09/28/nokia-n95-with-1200mah-bl-6f-battery-its-possible/
anyone willing to give it a go?
Sounds like the answer! Surely Nokia will make a modified battery cover that will fit around one of these?
s.
I'm sure it's not beyond Nokia's capabilities to produce a replacement cover for the N95 that could be fitted like their replacement covers and was flush with the camera housing, thus providing more space. Failing that, some Chinese factory could bring one out fairly quickly in Nokia colours etc.
Next, Nokia could reconfigure their Operating System to make it less RAM thirsty in their next software release and free up say, 10M more RAM.
Then with the addition of an 8GB microSD I'd be a happy bunny, Nokia would sell more BL-6F batteries (and cases) and more importantly would, unlike Apple with the iPhone, reward their customers for their loyalty.
Come on Nokia, this one isn't rocket science and think of the brownie points you could earn.
[email protected] wrote:I'm sure it's not beyond Nokia's capabilities to produce a replacement cover for the N95 that could be fitted like their replacement covers and was flush with the camera housing, thus providing more space. Failing that, some Chinese factory could bring one out fairly quickly in Nokia colours etc.
Next, Nokia could reconfigure their Operating System to make it less RAM thirsty in their next software release and free up say, 10M more RAM.
Then with the addition of an 8GB microSD I'd be a happy bunny, Nokia would sell more BL-6F batteries (and cases) and more importantly would, unlike Apple with the iPhone, reward their customers for their loyalty.
Come on Nokia, this one isn't rocket science and think of the brownie points you could earn.
Exactly my view! Come on Nokia!!!
s.
[email protected] wrote: Next, Nokia could reconfigure their Operating System to make it less RAM thirsty in their next software release and free up say, 10M more RAM.
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Every Symbian handset released has had a terrible shortage of RAM.
Perhaps it's a limitation of Symbian rather than Nokia being in sloppy.
Chinese companies have already made pretty authentic looking replacement cases for the N95... It would be great to see a replacement housing that would totally support a BL-6F, and keep the lens-cover in place.
Andy
Well, the solution to the RAM problem is easy - put in 128MB of RAM. I don't really think that Nokia can be exonerated - if they're using an OS that takes up near 40MB of RAM on boot, then putting in 64MB of RAM is a bad idea.
Mithent wrote:Well, the solution to the RAM problem is easy - put in 128MB of RAM
Which will be completely pointless if the Symbian OS is 8 bit and can only address RAM in 64Mb chunks.
Sinclair tried this in the 80's with the Spectrum 128 - which had 2 banks of 64Kb RAM. All programs which wanted to use the extra memory had to be written specifically to be able to use it. All other programs saw it as a standard Spectrum. The same would be true with an N95-128, IMO
I'm pretty sure that Symbian OS is a 32-bit operating system.. its ancestor is EPOC32 on the Psion Series 5 etc. and, before that, EPOC16/SIBO on the Psion Series 3. Not since the Psion Organiser series have Psion/Symbian OSes been 8-bit.
dez_borders wrote:Which will be completely pointless if the Symbian OS is 8 bit and can only address RAM in 64Mb chunks.Sinclair tried this in the 80's with the Spectrum 128 - which had 2 banks of 64Mb RAM. All programs which wanted to use the extra memory had to be written specifically to be able to use it. All other programs saw it as a stanfard Spectrum. The same would be true with an N95-128, IMO
Spectrum was 128Kb not Mb.
ARM processor is 32bit.
s.
sturgeon wrote:Spectrum was 128Kb not Mb.ARM processor is 32bit.
s.
My mistake, thanks for the correction.
However, I hope it illustrates the point I was trying to make.
Mithent wrote:I'm pretty sure that Symbian OS is a 32-bit operating system.. its ancestor is EPOC32 on the Psion Series 5 etc. and, before that, EPOC16/SIBO on the Psion Series 3. Not since the Psion Organiser series have Psion/Symbian OSes been 8-bit.
Well, if the above is correct, the I can't understand why all Symbian Smartphones come with at least 16Mb of RAM. RAM chips are soooo cheap.