N9 (Not N950) PR 1.2 being offered to devs. Commercial release soon?
A developer told me he received an email earlier today from Nokia, informing him that he can order an N9 that will come with PR 1.2 on it, to test his applications. Of course, we already know devs are using PR 1.2 on their N950s, but with the minor hardware differences, not all developers can fully test how well their apps will run on PR 1.2.
Although this isn’t surprising, what peaked my interest was that the dev also shared info that these N9s must be ordered by Feb 10. With this deadline, one can only assume, this date would ensure the devices can be distributed, and apps tested, prior to commercial release. This supports the claims that the update will be here by the end of February.
The final piece of information is that the N9 FW for devs is V 28.2011.03-1. The developer resource page says that this is not the final N9 release, and bugs are still being worked on. The changelog is listed again, and looks a little more extensive compared to last time. Warning; Long list.
Changes since Harmattan 1.1 releaseOther important improvements;
- Software update notifications for content in Nokia Store
- New languages
- Persian
- Hebrew
- Kazakh
- Thai
- Vietnamese
- Continuous shooting (3 shots/second) support in Camera
- Face recognition for gallery and face tags for Facebook
- Support for folders in the application view
- Mail for Exchange global address book lookup
- Mail thread support in the Email client
- Extended copy-paste support
- Media sharing with DLNA compatible devices
- Improved browser history view
- Compass support in Maps
- QtWebKit update to version 2.2
- New font taken into use
- Front camera support
- Video editing support in the Gallery application
- MeeGotouch Framework
- Visual hint for differentiating swipe close gesture from normal swipes
- Timestamps shown in notifications
- Notifications sorted by timestamps
- Improvements in Event Feed area
- Music controls in Lock screen
- New feedbacks added to MeeGoTouch theme
- Kernel updated to be in sync with the upstream kernel version 2.6.32.48
- Connectivity
- Android NDEF Push Protocol disabled
- NFC polling enabled in lock screen
- Separate switch for controlling mobile background connections while roaming
- Camera
- Self Timer support
- Composition grid + on/off control
- Calendar
- Better handling of To-Do lists, recurring events and timezones
- Private flag support for events
- Support for read-only events
- Ability to forward/reply/reply-all for received events
- Clock
- Clock alarm becomes silent by flipping the device face down instead of snoozing
- Updated time picker
- Gallery
- People view added to the grid toolbar
- Improved multiple selection indication in grid view
- Music Player
- Audiobook and podcast support
- Ability to create playlists
- Ability to delete music files from music player library views via object menu
- Possibility to see songs that are on the current play queue
- Contacts
- Capture an image from camera from contact card to set the contact avatar
- Service contact details attributed in contact card and editor
- Nickname option in contact list
- Online search from MfE server
- In addition, there are numerous bug fixes related to the implementation of new features, improving the overall user experience and reliability of the device.
Changelog source : Nokia Developer
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Wow! I’m so excited for this. I’m hoping Nokia will also give us an update where we can use the user memory for installation of third party apps as an option later on. I badly need it. :’(
Typing using my Nokia N9.
3 fps photos really sounds awesome. I hope we can do exposure bracketing with that too!
typed with my N9 too…
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Great but I don’t like N9 16GB you only left with 8.80GB of storage. Hope this new update brings ability to format/resize partitions.
I hate false memory advertising!!!!!! I finally got a 32GB microSD for my b’day only to find that it is actually only about 29GB!!!!! How, where, what happened to the other 3GB!!!!!! I can understand losing some MB to the file system but 3 Gigabytes, theres no OS info on there, just lost into thin air! I was ready to file a class action suit, dirty liars!
Ok…..I’m calm now….. 3GB!!!!!!! HULK SMASH!!!!!
Seriously though, I was upset, not gamma raying my N8, but I felt ripped off…..they could have said…29GB microSD on the package and I would not have known the difference or felt cheated.
Deaconclgi,
every storage system will be pre configure to lock certain amount of memory so that the files stored in it are index.Locked memory will depend upon the storage capacity of the device.It is common for all the storage devices.It is naive to complain about that.
but what Shayesta says is not the one u r telling.They locked nearly 6gb in the remaining available memory in 16gb(ie,14.2gb).
Hope it clarifies what u confused of.
That’s not false advertising. That’s a general disagreement between software and hardware guys. Most OSes, traditionally, being based on the binary system, report the memory as a power of two, so 1KB == 2^10B, 1MB == 2^10KB, 1GB == 2^10MB, etc. as its easier for the software guys to work with the powers of two.
Hardware guys are using regular, well established units, based on the decimal system so they are more correct when they say that 1KB == 10^2B, 1MB == 10^2KB, 1GB == 10^2MB, etc. They are selling you the exact amount of memory that regular SI units would refer when using kilo/mega/giga prefixes.
When you buy a 32GB microSD card, you get exactly what you’ve paid for – 32,000,000 bytes of storage (well, not exactly, but roughly rounded). How will your OS report that, that’s a whole other subject. If the OS uses the colloquial software representation of those units, to report 32GB your card would need to have 32*2^20B, or 33,554,432B of storage available, and that clearly isn’t the case. Instead, it will report more modest 30.5GB, and when you take the amount of space needed for the MBR, file table, cluster size and other additional things, in dependence of the file system you’re formatting it to – it may even go down to 28GB reported.
There really isn’t anything falsely advertised in your example. It’s just presented in different units.
It’s not intentional false advertising, no — it’s more that OS’s don’t use the correct terminology when reporting disk space. If they are to use the binary power-of-two system, they should report Mebibytes, Gibibytes and Tebibytes (MiB, GiB & TiB symbols). If using the decimal system they should use Megabytes, Gigabytes and Terabytes. But they don’t, so no one really knows what a Mebibyte is, so they get confused.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mebibyte
Yup, but nobody’s using those units unfortunately.
Also, I’ve maid an unintentional error above – I was calculating megabytes (and mebibytes) instead of gigabytes (and gibibytes), so to repeat just that somebody doesn’t get confused:
When you buy a 32GB microSD card, you get exactly what you’ve paid for – 32,000,000,000 bytes of storage (well, not exactly, but roughly rounded). How will your OS report that, that’s a whole other subject. If the OS uses the colloquial software representation of those units, to report 32GB your card would need to have 32*2^30B, or 34,359,738,368B of storage available, and that clearly isn’t the case. Instead, it will report more modest 29.8GB, and when you take the amount of space needed for the MBR, file table, cluster size and other additional things, in dependence of the file system you’re formatting it to – it may even go down to 28GB reported.
Ain’t gonna happen – there are difficulties with that that you cannot even fathom. There was a talk, however, in the old Maemo days, on how to rectify the problem of mixing the FAT32 and the ext3/ext4/btfs filesystems needed for a standard USB-storage feature and a regular Linux operation, and the idea was to have it all in ext3/ext4/btfs and then have a virtual FAT32 driver on top of it which would load when you activate the mass-storage mode.
That way everything would scale to need (with maybe some reserved space needed for the proper future updates), and while the storage mode would work a bit slower (due to the virtual layer) and eat more power (but given that you’re already connected with USB it shouldn’t matter) and it would need a deamon to monitor the mass storage location (i.e. /home/user/MyDocs) and enforce non-casesensitive names and 777 permissions – it should be acceptable for the benefit it provides. The only opposition to that approach that I remember was from the HW guys stating something about queuing problems on the flash chip and such, but those were rather minor problems…
I wonder what has happened with that idea, as there were strong indications that it would come with Harmattan…
You should revive a thread about it at TMO.
Or perhaps even lodge a enhancement request in the tracker & let others know so they can subscribe/vote.
Post here if you do, would like to partake in the debate.
Can’t patred be used to change partition space?
You can but it causes issues when you want to flash/update later.
It can, but it can bring many a headache. If your system expects to have a root partition of this size, and the user/app space of that size, and vfat usb-storage-enabled partition of another size, and everything is then linked together with a gazillion mount points – change one and you can start an avalanche. And even if it doesn’t, the next update could brick your phone if not taking into account the changed partitions, and…
While one could, technically, do it – it should not be expected as an OS feature, especially not user-accessible, as it could create really bad problems.
There are more elegant approaches to that – for example having the user/app space and the vfat partition under the aufs/unionfs and then to do dynamic scaling; or having everything under ext4/btfs and storing the vfat usb-accessible part in a dynamic virtual image; or as I’ve said above – storing everything regularly and having the usb-storage driver create a virtual vfat proxy to it… I was almost convinced that one of those solutions would be present in the Harmattan. Sadly, I was wrong
As I said above, you should revive a thread/debate.
Momentum’s building for a lot of community-based stuff lately.
Especially now that open-mode’s progressing well.
I think I’ll wait to grab that elusive unicorn white N9 before trying to participate in a discussion about it’s internals
However, if somebody’s interested, it was discussed at some length @
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=35122 (it also has some links to brainstorm pages) and I think there was a thread discussing the same problem on meego.com as well.
Dude, hurry-up and get it!
P.S. I personally, on my N900, use a loopback pointing to a 4GB vfat image as storage mode – that’s enough to cover the occasional camera use and store offline maps, the rest of the system is ext3 and if it weren’t for those pesky apps that insist to occupy /usr (tried to move that, not a good idea!) I have practically unlimited space at the expense of lower space in storage mode (I rectify that with a FAT32-formatted microSD).
Didn’t have the N9 for long enough to see if its rootfs is still stored outside of the eMMC (I think it doesn’t) so technically even better setup can be achieved with it.
Cant wait for this update. Looks like there’s a lot of added functionality and features.
“3500 fixes/features updated since initial launch (PR 1.0) remember? Expect none less. Plus, all the bugs that were resolved.
>> Online search from MfE server
Nice, plenty of people complained on the search working only with the locally downloaded mails. This should be touted as a major added feature.
As for the N9′s with PR 1.2, given that Nokia has, sadly, halted the production of the N950, they really have no other choice than to offer N9 with PR1.2 preinstalled to the devs that didn’t manage to get the N950 on time.
They ought to allow registered devs to obtain PR1.2 images for the N9, it would be much cheaper for them because even if the devs don’t have an N950, they at least already have an N9 to do their testing on. I guess they don’t want it to leak (which it would, inevitably) but I don’t see why would they concern themselves with that — if you have a dev account you can get it, and if it bricks your device you’d get a warranty by proving that you’re a dev, otherwise it’s your own fault for installing an unsupported firmware. Apple does it like that, and if they in their infinite restrictive wisdom don’t have a problem with that – why should Nokia?
by the rate of which the updates are coming, imo there doesnt seem to be as great a desire to install leaked firmware as compared to the n8 which had leaked belle out months even before it has come out officially on the device instead of a month and a half for the n9.
As I claimed right after 2/11/2011, Steven Elop has been on his vicious mission to destroy Nokia from inside because outside from USA can not bring Nokia down.
As a CEO of Nokia, Steven Elop is not for the interests of nokia, nor for microsoft though he pretends to be, but for US Wall Street crooks whose purpose is to destroy Nokia and REAL GNU/Linux on mobile devices.
With Nokia selling phones powered by symbian and meego worldwide, FBI/CIA have no way to spy end mobile users.
Nokia lost US market not because of poor phones/services but for the sake of out of control from FBI/CIA.
Steven Elop is criminal/terroist to Nokia investors but hero of Wall Street and FBI/CIA.
He is desintergating Nokia and has already disrupted everything. He will resign in the End of Q2, because mission has been finished.
Here, hold on to this tinfoil hat… It will make the voices disappear…
You know too much
I assume you believe in Area 51 as well?
I’m hoping they’ll be clever enough to back port the zram snappy compression patches at some stage
That sounds handy/cool, what is it?
Zram is what’s being used instead of a storage-based swap partition, and I’d suggest is why there is so much less (read none) soft blocking compared to the n900 (to be fair the much larger amount of ram helps a lot too). Instead of putting swapped out memory to a swap partition, it is instead compressed but still kept in memory. It tends to use a whole pile less space (than just being kept in ram), and means that swap operations no longer have any i/o requirement, at the cost of a little more cpu usage.
The snappy compression patches were about using the google snappy compression format (which is more efficient that the LZO algorithm that zram uses) to improve zram performance.
Unfortunately, I since realised that it’s quite x86_64 specific so it’s considered unlikely to be of much benefit on arm
There is apparently though some recent improvements to the LZO algorithm that improve it’s performance greatly which would be great to see adopted on the n9
Ah of course, the old “compressed swap in ram” trick!
I hadn’t considered that, you’re right, the N9′s an ideal candidate.
Esp. since RAM is one of the the few things Nokia didn’t skimp on hw-wise!
["Zram is what’s being used instead of a storage-based swap partition, and I’d suggest is why there is so much less (read none) soft blocking compared to the n900 (to be fair the much larger amount of ram helps a lot too)."]
So this is already being done on the N9, but only with LZO at this stage?
We should lodge a enhancement request in the tracker for snappy to be ported to ARM or for the improved LZO to be used!?
It’s by far one of the most useful/important enhancements.
Cheers.
i hope nokia will find a way to add more memory storage to the current 4 gb of installation memory of n9.. Though its a hardware update, anything is possible.. Hehe..
I hope they sort out the video player, as my N9 cant even play videos shot on my N8 correctly. Pffft! It freezes and skims frames and eve absurdly mves the audio!
One of the rumors was that improved codecs are coming.
Among one or two other things that escape my mem.
But I’ve not yet seen any mention….
Hope this means I can finally repeat just one song :/
try asking in this thread
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=81865&page=20
you can!
How? That part of the music player functionality is what I’m missing most on my N9.
there is a work aroind for that. Search the wong using yhe searcj functionality, press upon search and it will only be the song played in a loop.
Hey, it works! Thanks!:) I just don’t understand Nokia’s decision to leave that one song repeat feature in the music player instead of having to do this.
In the music player you can also click SONGS then youll be presented with the list, drag down the list and ‘search’ will appear uu im pleasantly surprised to discover that. Drag down in MESSAGE list and search will also appear.
nice touch nokia harmattan XD
hey guys, did u know something about this device, N99 RM-119?!? http://www.nokia-club.ro/topic/5321-sa-fie-acesta-urmasul-lui-n9/
can’t read that language.
Dude, u dont need to know the language, is about that screenshot witt navifirm and there apears this device, n99…
Well it doesn’t mean much….
It could just be an internal dev device.
It def. won’t be a high-end Maemo-based device.
It’s clear management no longer wants that in Nokia’s future.
It “may” be some future WP-based device.
Which some of us don’t care all that much about.
Google N99, was discovered in 07. No new news
yes,u right, but now is in navifirm
Good work guys, u missed one thing. We need the whatsapp application.
Have you signed the petition?
Have you even bothered to really give eBuddy a shot.
If whatsapp wants to ignore us, then we shouldn’t be kowtowing to them.
User-bases can shift quickly….
Ebuddy’s user-base certainly isn’t small either.
We’ll never know exact differences, as these co’s never show their true no’s.
It’s def. covers as many platforms, if not more.
And it has the same features/functionality.
Sym/Meego/WP client isn’t as feature-packed as the ios/android client, but will be soon.
This is really cool! Facebook and Twitter Notifications are the best updates ever
I want to order one, does anybody know how to order it.
Thx
Hooray for official Hebrew support!
How about support for whatsapp? yeah sure eBuddyXMS is cool but I have over 150 contacts that only use whatsapp.. would be impossible to get them all to change to eBuddy! and yes i’ve signed the petition
lets hope for the best..
At least try eBuddyXMS…
You might be surprised how many of your contacts already use or have it installed.
I know some who use whatsapp regularly on android/ios who’ve actually commented it’s a nicer app.
We need it now now now now now now now”"”"”"”"”‘‘
how many years will nokia support meego and n9 with updates? ANYONE?
You “still” don’t know then why ask.
And why are you necro-posting, very poor netiquette
Hey fellows. Could any of you let me know of any means to enable repeat a song in the N9. Need that badly.
IIRC doesn’t have it, but someone suggested a workaround that works well.
Can’t recall where now, it was in one of the stories here.
Best-off asking over at talk.maemo.org…
i hope the update will put facebook events in the calendar… i’d really need that, also i hope my MfE bug will be gone then … can’t wait to install this on my n9, it looks like a very promising update, can’t complain so far about the phone but some things are pretty annoying… the fact with the front cam (but that’s fixed now..), the fact that i don’t have a cam button (gotta get that tweak..) and sometimes it’s a lil laggy even though nothing’s open.
“the fact with the front cam (but that’s fixed now..)”
What do you mean?
They’ve not confirmed vid-chat support for the front facing camera.
They’ve made changes so it’s easier for 3rd parties to add support.
But they still not bothered themselves…