Do a backup of your data before the update, just in case, but the User Data Preservation system should mean that all your data, apps and settings will work properly after the update.

Changes/Improvements/New features/Bugs noticed from v21.002 to v30.0.011

Standby screen:

• *When Music Player is operating, and seeing the track name on the screen, and then when one song ends and goes to the next track, the speed at which this happens has improved yet again from 21.002, although the noticeable change is not as much as from 20.149 to 21.002.

Call log, Contacts and calling function:

• *Calling speed (from standby screen to Contacts or Call Log) and transition to call/disconnected screens even faster than 21.002, is more than the instantaneous that I stated for the 21.002, it has improved yet again.
• *New menu option in the in-call menu to Send MMS during phone call.
• *Loudspeaker maximum volume has seemed to decreased

Maps:

• *Maps startup is now almost instantaneous, speed through all the Maps menus very fast, even faster than Maps 2.0
• *Switching to different views is very smooth and fast now, i.e. to Map 3D etc.
• *Maps version 2.0 week 39 remains the same, although the Maps is able to be upgraded to Ovi Maps 3.01 flawlessly

Music Player:

• *The biggest change is the equaliser improvements. There is a huge improvement in sound quality, even background sounds and other channels are more noticeable. The default equaliser settings are quite good. And bass is less crunchy than before.
• *Split-second delays now do not exist when pressing the volume keys to change between volume levels. In the past, there was some degree of delay, even running multiple applications now, that behaviour has been improved remarkably.
• *Freezes in the music player have not been evident to me yet in my days of usage with the new firmware . Which is a marked improvement in the functioning and stability of the music player. Screen tearing and slow speed for album art to appear is still present though.

Camera and Photos:

• *Biggest change is the reappearance of use of the volume keys to zoom while taking photos/recording video
• *Going into Details is faster than 21.002, almost instantaneous now
• *Scrolling speed through thumbnails is only minimally jerky now, also scrolling through photos at 100% view has improved in speed so it is now very smooth and almost instantaneous
• *When going into menus in Camera, the speed is instantaneous

Video centre:

• *Logo has changed for the video centre in the menu
• *Appearance of video menu is different and seems to have inherited the newer N-series/E-series style simplified logos
• *Speed in the video centre is much improved and is almost instantaneous
• *Changing between volume levels in RealPlayer is instantaneous, fast-forward/rewind speed and resume of playback after these functions is improved and almost instantaneous. Sound quality appears to have been improved also.

Search:

• *Application has been upgraded from v4.08 to v4.10.0904
• *Logo has changed and is now reminiscent of the newer N-series/E-series simplified styling
• *Performance is faster and Yandex search service has been removed in favour of Live Search and Google (Note: this is for the APAC variant, will vary between different regions and specific countries)

Web:

• *Rendering of webpages has improved in speed since 21.002
• *Rotate Screen option speed is now almost instantaneous
• *Speed in Web options menu is now instantaneous
• *Loading of Minimap on side when scrolling down pages does not have pixelation anymore

Other:

• *Overall system speed has been improved so it is somewhat faster than 21.002
• *Scrolling in the Multimedia menu from one tab to another whilst multiple applications are running, has improved marginally in speed
• *Overall stability seems to also have been improved, have not had one crash or freeze where I have had to remove the phone battery. The slight freezes that have occurred, the phone has recovered from flawlessly.

Do please comment if you spot anything that’s actually added.

Vishwas brings in his thoughts and has this to share,

” OK. I checked the demo piece at NPD today. For overall experience I give it 8.5/10. Some of the things were slow. For example, camera is still slow (even if better quality), qwerty keyboard was slow, display rotation from portrait to landscape was extremely slow, causing me to wonder whether it will change at all. It did change the orientation but not before blanking out the display for almost a second. Hope the final OS takes care of this. Stylus was toy like yes. Speakers, I was hearing so much about them but did not find them loud at all. Max volume in a crowded mall did not sound as if they are great speakers. What else. Yes, the camera still and video quality is good. GPS/GPRS did not work, nor did WiLAN, so could not check anything regarding maps and internet. In terms of booking and price and goodies, the price is 20k. 600/- for the headphone (optional). No more goodies promised, maybe a box of chocolates thrown in. Phone will be pre-bundles with 100 hindi+100 english songs and special AR Rehman album of 9 songs. Delivery date is not fixed, they just say first week of jan. He mentioned he has to make payment to Nokia in full before he receives the order. He is not likely to do that before 31st.”

If you think you need more then check what Zorawar has to share,

” i went to the dealer yesterday and lay my hands on the demo set. the built quality is pretty decent and so is the finger touch response. speakers dissapointed me a little but the guy there said the final versions for sale will have a better quality. also he said that this is not the final software. about the Sennheiser headfones, he said he might be able to adjust them in the total price and give me a best buy. so that way the phone should cost me 20 grands includin the Sennheiser headsets. i also used the wifi on the fone and the google maps too. the comfort level is very good, pretty handy, but will have to get use to the all touch screen, specially the kyeboards for faster typing, but that should not be an issue. also the camera gave great results with the flash as i clicked the guy at the counter only. the guy has confirmed the delivery on 3rd jan, 09.”

And finally we have a Chennai’s take on the device,

“I checked out the device at an NPD here in C’nai. Device does look plasticky and does not look like a 20k mo device. The photographs all over the do justice to the device. The UI itself was slick and familiar (same ol symbian) with larger icons everywhere. Checked out most of the features (messaging, thumb pad, hand writing recog., mini qwerty etc)., all work fine. I found the stylus worked the best with zero wrong inputs and the telephone style keypad (abc) (def) style worked with zero errors (no typos) for messaging. Wi-fi was quite fast and i liked the Google Chrome like thumbnail view of pages recently visited very attractive. Pictures were OK. Could not test GPS as we could not get it to work for some reason. I also realized that its going to take sometime to get used to the device as there are many ways one could do the same thing (media bar, menus, shortcuts..) It was fun pre-booking ”

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