All About Symbian (www.allaboutsymbian) have just announced that the Nokia N97 has just been offered a firmware upgrade to v12.0.024, great BUT!
In my opinion I think that it's such a pity that manufacturers such as Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Samsung are not testing there products well enough before they're released! Effectively, these days new mobile products are released and 'beta tested' by the public! Yes really, so that people find faults with new products reporting them to the manufacturers, who then fix the bugs/glitches and luckily release firmware upgrades. It's good that firmware upgrades are released, but absolutely NOT fair that 'joe public' have got to carry out such a major job (and very likely to be beyond the ability of 'joe average') with a brand new product costing several hundreds of pounds (£). Now, if we think back to the years that Psions released their first CM, LZ, Series 3, 3a, 3c, 3mx, 5, 5mx, Sienna, Revo & their last Series 7, we NEVER had firmware upgrades released to fix Psion bugs/glitches! Psion obviously got it 'right' before they released new products.
So, in conclusion, my advice as always these days is DON'T BUY BRAND NEW MOBILE DEVICES, unless you want to risk being a beta tester! Instead, wait a few months for those regular/predictable bug fix firmware upgrades to come out.
From a different point of view, most users of these high-powered mobile devices quite literally ONLY use them for voice calls, text/email messages and an address book; so probably wouldn't see the difference between the first releases and subsequent firmwares upgrades. So, perhaps it would be fairer me saying that manufacturers cater for the majority of the userbase, not the minority 'power users' like myself, who use the full functionality of a device and therefore would notice bugs/glitches.
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