Diablo firmware update hits N800 and N810
By admin on June 27,
 2008 at 00:00,

Attention, owners of Nokia Internet Tablets! Our Finnish friends have just unleashed a firmware update for the N800 and N810. Dubbed Diablo, it delivers a mountain of new and improved features, not to mention bug fixes.

According to the change log Diablo adds SSU, or seamless software updating, which allows parts of the operating system to be updated without you having to flash and/or rewrite the whole thing. Over the air updates are now available over Wi-Fi and (if your N810 has it) WiMax. These two should make future upgrades much more painless, and mean you won’t run the risk of losing data and files when in the process.

The email client has been updated to Modest, which means more features. GPS on the N810 has also been given a shake-up, with A-GPS now supported (this cuts the time it takes to pinpoint your position). The Wayfinder application has also been updated.

As you’d expect there are number of minor updates and bug fixes too, so this is well worth getting if you’re an Internet Tablet user.

  • Matthew Lynch

    One step forwards, two steps backwards

    I fail to see how the Diablo release can be heralded as a great step forwards. It would seem to me having used it for 2 months that the only advantage of SSU is that it now gives the software developers an excuse for not getting high quality software out with the first release. So do Nokia Tablet users now have to put up with a continual Beta?

    Since installing Diablo, my n800 now hangs at least one a day and numerous high-visibility bugs have come to light:
    First, I lost all my emails on the device as they wouldn\’t restore from the backup (no warning given about this)
    The Modest email client is slow, keeps reporting an incorrect account password and refusing to download email until I overtype the password with the same one.
    The Modest email client is a significant downgrade in functionality as it doesn\’t delete emails from the server and keeps showing the titles of deleted emails some time after they were deleted.
    Sometimes it doesn\’t download the full message content even though the option is set.
    The web client takes an age to load some pages often refreshing the page several times taking up to 30 seconds before you can start navigating it and I now have to wait around 1 minute to watch BBC video clips because Adobe Flashplayer 9 keeps asking me whether it has crashed or not!

    I want Chinook back please – but of course, SSU doesn\’t provide a software rollback..

  • antonio

    mj

  • EDUARDO MENDUNI

    n810