Nokia N900 firmware PR 1.1 rolling out across the world

Posted on Thursday, Jan 14, 2010 by Matthew Miller

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At the beginning of this week we saw a minor update to the Nokia N900 that we learned gave us access to the Ovi Store. It is a great week to be a Nokia N900 owner as we see official word that Maemo 5 PR 1.1 is rolling out now across the time zones, starting in Finland. Mine appeared early this morning and I am updating the 90MB update at this time.

If you want to know all about the changes in this update check out the changelog list. My update hasn’t arrived yet, but I understand there is a manual method available for US devices. Here are some of the new and updated features in PR 1.1:

Support for MS Exchange 2003
Performance improvements in the browser
Fast SMS rejection of incoming call
Silence ringing by flipping phone face down
OVI Maps updated for route calculation and search performance
Added voicemail shortcut support
Lots of other improvements

We are not seeing MMS support, portrait mode for text messaging, or other improvements we have been hoping for. I’ll explore it a bit more when it shows up on my device too.

Raul L
January 14, 2010

Thanks Matt! Downloading it right now…

Woody
January 14, 2010

FYI There’s a nice MMS implementation in Extras-Devel for those daring enough to load alpha software. (Note, Extras-Devel is alpha, Extras-Testing is beta, none are meant for average users…)

I delved into Extras Devel just to get fMMS, and can now send/receive MMS, even if the formats aren’t always detected right. (Aren’t all MMS jpg images? So, just a matter of time before some MMS implementation is out there, be it from Nokia or the developer fan base.

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I am not able to see nokia messaging in the service providers list. Tried everything from changin sim to reboots nothing seemed to work. I use nokia messaging in my other phones. Not sure whats wrong with N900. I am using the latest 51 firmware for N900. ANy inputs will be helpfull

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