N95-1 v21 Firmware review

Question

I was just wondering what Nokia should include in the next firmware-release after v21 for the nokia n95-1. After I upgraded from v20 to v21 I had many expectations concerning the changelog ([URL="http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/forum/showthread.ph​p?t=58226"]http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/forum/showthread.ph​p?t=58226[/URL]): Flashlite3, faster menu, rotation improvements...
however, here's a BIG, FAT buglist:
- Flashlite works fairly good with youtube although quality is worse than with mobitubia or emtube BUT other flashsites as myvideo.de or google video are terribly slow (50% speed, sound not properly synched) AND when resizing the page (to 75 or 50%) only the left quarter of a video is displayed
- opening menu folders hasn't become faster; only if folders have already been opened and therefore loaded into the RAM the menu seems faster
- rotation improvements are only noticeable when rotating the screen while displaying pictures or when having zoomed in. in all other situations screen rotation has become even slower (e.g. in the menu, or when having a full active standy with calendar and to do entries) AND when rotating the screen counterclockwise (e.g. with rotateme) there are loads of localization errors (e.g. OPTIONS and BACK are interchanged) and the camera viewfinder mirrors everything; in general, rotation is not very responsive
- and that's another annoying bug: the device has become less responsive (is this the revenge of the keypress bug??:tongue
- i'm getting the feeling that the e3 demo has a reduced framerate compared to v20
- "GPS position acquisition is *much* faster than in V20." - this is simply not true, it still takes around 2 or 3 minutes without A-GPS to lock my position
- if light sensor is set to minimum, the backlight sometimes is switched off even if I'm in a quite dark ambience (-> I can't see anything for approx. 10 seconds)
- sometimes WLAN-scanning just goes off involuntarily and, even if I switched it off, the phone displays all available networks
- standby-time improvements? i didn't realize any. I checked v20 with Nokias energy profiler (switched off everything possible, offline mode, no memory card inserted -> 0.06W) and then v21 (same process, again 0.06W)
- WLAN wizard has remained the same; if I want to choose e.g. my home wlan "ConnectionPoint" (secure) it is not always displayed in the access point list. then I choose "search for wlan" to find it; everything's alright, "ConnectionPoint" is found but when I choose it, I have to enter the WEP key - extremely annoying!!!
- a couple of bugs can be found in the music player. the responsibility of the media keys is considerably slow, it takes half a second to e.g. pause - I want it to pause immediately! And, if you push the keys several times in a row it stops the music only after your last push.
- the volume keys are not switched when changing to landscape mode; it means that when playing back a video you have to press the LEFT volume key while the volume bars rise in the RIGHT direction
- the browser is not fully developed; when rendering a website, the browser gives you a "first glance" at some parts of the page, but then there's a couple of seconds a white screen after which the browser renders the rest of the page. I don't get it, does the browser get the desktop resolution at first and then tries to allocate every object to the phones' resolution? Tell me.
- layer ads cannot be closed as they are wandering together with the mouse
- and lastly, when trying to watch flash vids not on youtube in landscape mode, the browser often crashes.
I don't think these bugs are related to my device only as there would be no logical reason for this (I mean NSU distributes the same firmware to everyone with n95-1 and I definitely don't have hardware-related issues)
Okay, enough about bugs. I would like to give my thoughts about what should be included in the next firmware-release:
- ASR (as seen on n95 8gb v20)
- everything should be supported by the 3d accelerator, esp. Flashlite 3 (it uses the CPU only), then video playback would work way better
- page file (no more memory leaks); I'd rather have a temporary slow reaction of the phone while it does memory-eating procedures like videoediting than "out-of-memory" popups
- there should be an expert's view option in the settings app to have access to more specific settings
- GPS data should be queried at least each half a second from the chip to have a smoother position tracking. it would also be more accurate, since there wouldn't be such large jumps from one position to another when driving really fast
- one should be able to switch WLAN completely off, not just the scanning; correct me if I'm wrong, but how can it be possible that even if WLAN is supposedly switched off, the scanning starts so incredibly fast? shouldn't there be a warmup phase of the antenna??
I hope you guys read it and provide me with answers and opinions!!!

Answer 1

I have recently installed v 21.0.016. A big concern is that I used to use the "GPS Data" application often, but this has now been removed!?
1) Any idea where I can find the GPS Data app to re-install?
2) If not available, which 3rd party apps could show me speed, elevation, coordinates etc?
As a comment the Maps application is IMHO not as feature rich. I used to be able to plan a route and then start tracking my position on the highlighted route as I progress - this is no longer possible
Thanks in advance for any insights