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Filed under: Software, Nokia, Symbian

It’s not every day that a manufacturer makes a conscientious effort to keep an older product in feature lockstep with the new, so our hats (and hearts) go out to Nokia for this latest round of love. The original Nokia N95, the European N95-1, has started getting blessed with firmware v21, which brings it in line with the N95 8GB’s recent update to offer Flash Lite 3, in-browser Flash, and a host of performance and stability improvements. It seems that folks are still having limited success getting the new update via Nokia’s software update app, but it’s starting to trickle out there. North American N95 owners, though — well, as you can probably guess, you’re left out in the cold for the time being.

[Via Boy Genius Report and Nokia Users, thanks Jonathan]

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Filed under: Culture, Nokia, Misc

As if being on the hook for $92 million wasn’t enough, Nokia is at this time being chased down for what looks to be another €4 million or so, which comes out to just over $6.2 million. This time, the German government is “demanding” that Nokia repay said amount in research subsidies at this time that it is closing its factory in Bochum. Reportedly, the German Research Ministry gifted the cellphone maker with €4 million in order to “fund four separate research projects dealing primarily with new antennae and wireless transmission technology,” and at this time it’s asking Nokia to “explain by early April which patent filings resulted from the projects and which German production or research sites benefited from the results of the projects.” So much for basking in the glory of Q4, eh?

[Via IntoMobile, image courtesy of Reuters]

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Filed under: Handsets, Nokia

It’s just what you’ve been waiting for — a Nokia N95 running Windows Mobile. it seems like the unverified information were true after all! What’s that? This is not a real phone? It’s just an FM radio with a sticker on the screen? Oh bother. Yes folks, thanks to eagle-eyed tipster Eric, you’re looking at the next evolution in gadgetry — the Asaki N95 FM radio. We’re not sure what the going price for this is, but we’d imagine slightly less than $779, though the real N95 doesn’t come with those totally pimped-out headphones, does it?

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