Nokia releases firmware upgrade for N800- Skype is there!
Kevin first shocked the world when he announced that Nokia would be soon releasing Skype for the N800 Internet Tablet. N800 owners have been chomping at the bit to get Skype running on the capable Internet Tablet. Wait no more, faithful N800 owners, as Nokia has released a firmware upgrade that adds Skype among other things. The upgrade also adds Flash support, something owners have been clamoring for too. Nokia also claims that performance has been improved over the previous firmware version. I know I'll be downloading this baby today as I can't wait for Skype on the N800. Hopefully they will soon support video calls using the internal web cam. You'll need the Internet Tablet Upgrade Wizard on your Windows PC to apply the firmware upgrade which you can find here.
One thing I noticed is that SDHC support is added through firmware upgrade (or is it only larger SDHC). Did the N800 supported SDHC before? The question is, can manufacturers of laptops, tabletPCs, UMPCs can perform similar firmware upgrade on current devices?
Posted by: Richard L. | July 06, 2007 at 10:34 AM
Does this upgrade wipe the current device so that I'll have to reconfigure it again? I guess I'll find out soon enough....
Posted by: Frank McPherson | July 06, 2007 at 11:07 AM
Frank, you will end up with a "clean" device meaning that you'll have to configure it again. I just ran the update...
Posted by: Kevin C. Tofel | July 06, 2007 at 11:38 AM
I updated mine yesterday, then restored the backup I made before I updating. All the settings were restored. The 3rd party applications were not restored, but the settings were.
Posted by: Nik | July 07, 2007 at 10:35 AM