E61 - Does it crash?

Hi, A friend of mine is looking to buy the Nokia E61 with TomTom software.
The questions i want to ask are.
1) Does the phone crash or shut down or restart or anything like that?
2) If i update to the latest firmware for my friend will the problems/bugs be fixed?
3) Overall do you think it is a good or bad phone to use?
Thanks, And i hope you answer all my questions if possible
Btw i'm relying on you guys to tell me if this phone crashes or not
Nokia N95
V 20.0.015
0546553

It does more than crash.
This phone has the absolute worst stability of any phone I've had the (dis?)pleasure of using.
The original, version 1 firmware saw bluetooth crashing weekly, if not multiple times a week. It would simply stop talking to my bluetooth earpiece, and manually forcing a disconnect rendered bluetooth unusable on the phone due to the phone refusing to connect to any bluetooth device until it was restarted.
Messaging similarly crashes at random - open an email, and there's a good chance Messaging will simply die. I've seen cases where Messaging is in a half-dead state, where it'll show me a couple of folders, and will refuse to navigate anywhere or exit. Again, the only fix is (surprise!) a restart.
Version 3 of the firmware (the latest at time of writing) has improved bluetooth stability somewhat - but it's absolutely destroyed voice recognition. 'No match found' is now what I hear 99% of the time when trying to use voice recognition to dial an entry in my phonebook - I've wasted countless minutes at a time trying to make a simple phone call via voice recognition, and eventually just give up in disgust with most calls. My voice is the same as it was when using the v1 firmware, and I'm using the same bluetooth earpiece (Motorola H300) - the voice recognition issue began to rear it's ugly head while making my first phone call after updating to v3, and it's been with me ever since.
A device is only as good as the software running on it - and this phone is, simply put, a steaming pile of ****.
Perhaps this is simply a sad commentary on the state of software nowadays - I really do wonder if anyone really bothers doing quality control on the software they release. Then again, some companies appear to have a worse track record with this than others (are you listening, Nokia?).
End result: I do not recommend buying this phone. I spent far too much on it, considering the endless frustration it provides me.

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