More updates arrive for Nokia N8

Following on from last week's 'Homescreen Widgets' update, Nokia Suite is this evening offering a further set of smaller updates, both Optional, for my Nokia N8 running Nokia Belle.

'Calendar Update' is version 10.6.1 and comes in at 202KB. The description promises 'improved calendar events handling and fixes to some known issues'.

'Music Player' is version 17.0.17 and a heftier 1.2MB. It brings 'improved navigation, artist view and support for lyrics'.


Installation for 'Calendar Update' is quick and requires a restart of the phone. Now I'm not a heavy user of the Calendar on Nokia Belle, so I can't say for sure what the changes are. I have attached a couple of screenshots:

The 'Music Player' update has some more obvious cosmetic changes to the front end, and will be the update which will affect me on a day to day basis. First up, the main screen now has an additional row of icons along the top edge of the screen:

 It's a nice idea, but it's just a pity that they couldn't quite fit in all five icons on the portrait view. As you'll see, the Artist View is now the default, and it remembers this setting even after restarting Music Player. I much prefer Album View, but this can picked up easily by flipping round to landscape view (see later).

The remaining 4 icons are Album View, Track View, Summary View (showing Most Played, Recently Played, Recently Added and Never Played (why?)) and Genre View:

  

'Now Playing' has also had a spruce up, and although it will take a bit of getting used to, the repositioned 'play position' bar seems responsive enough and well sized even for my clumsy fingertips.

As mentioned earlier, you still get the 'Album Cover' flow view in Landscape, but it has a new (?) semi-transparent overlay showing the tracks, makinf track selection nice and easy:

 And finally, Lyric Support. I'm pretty sure this wasn't available on my Music Player previously as my one of my sons is a big fan of 'Who's That Chick?' and we haven't had the lyrics before. But, as you'll see below, we can now correct all those lyrical mistakes with the lovely scrolling text!

So there you have it - yet another set of updates trickles down to the N8. It's just sad that these will very likely be the last for this generation of Symbian devices, but given the amount of updates over the past couple of years, we can't really complain.

Given the wide variety in the number of widgets actually received on different devices when the 'Homescreen Widgets' update came out recently, I'm interested to know how many people are getting the updates shown above and if there is any variation across different models?