Firmware

If you have a Nokia XM-5800, best check your firmware, especially if you had it like forever, (before the iPhone was really that awesome). Why?

Recently updated the firmware on the hand-me-down 5800, from version 11.x.x.x (forgot the exact firmware number) to version 52.0.007.

Big difference.

1. Its faster, I mean physically, since they up-ed the clock speed on the processor through the firmware, from 369MHz to 434MHz.

2. Its not as stupid. In the old firmware, having your screen (in typing mode, a.k.a messaging) in portrait mode initially and switching it to landscape does nothing. Now, it switches to QWERTY mode when in landscape. (Isn't that what the iPhone did all along? (To be clear, IO.S 4.1 or something, as of the latest of the time of posting) Well, no. Reason why I dislike typing on the iPhone is that its capacitive, and the QWERTY pad or layout is small in portrait mode, and sometimes (like entering your details in iTunes or some form info) you can't switch it to landscape QWERTY which suck a hell lot, since my fingers are not that small. Some users might not find this an issue.

3. Did I say its faster? How fast? Did a Hard Reset on the phone, still slow. Then did the firmware update, FAST!

4. Less Buggy. Its still has its bugs, like un-logical sequence and UI. But, the iPhone have the same problem too. Like the landscape QWERTY thing in (2).