Orange has crippled my Nokia 95
I’ve just bought a Nokia N95. According to Nokia it does just about everything except make a cup of tea. Techies reading this will be particularly pleased to hear it supports SIP VOIP calls… according to Nokia anyway.
The truth is Orange and Vodafone have crippled the firmware of their Nokia N95s so that they aren’t able to make VOIP calls. The option is available under settings, but a key application that allows you to choose between a normal voice call, video call and VOIP call is missing!
Truphone, a company that makes an application just like the one mentioned above, have created a video documenting the difference between the standard N95 and the crippled Orange version. Truphone crippled Orange N95 demonstration
I have two options:
1. return the phone to Orange and get a T-Mobile contract with web’n walk (T-Mobile haven’t crippled their phones and neither have O2)
2. try to flash the firmware on the phone using tools such as Pheonix 2007 and BB5 Reaper 2006 (more info) available on the Internet (see my N95 page for details), although doing this will invalidate my warranty supposedly :(
October 19th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
you can change the product code to the nokia defult 0536062 and use the nokia software update software and reflash the phone and all will come back