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Listed below are comments made by TheBogBrushZone between Monday, 8th September 2008 and Thursday, 11th December 2008.

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BBC iPlayer & N95: Update 1:45pm on 11 Dec 2008 Seems like 1.5.0 has had a stealth update that prevents it from working with the N95 (and in turn enabls the N85). Poking around inside the .wgz shows that the list of Nokia phones inside app-min.js has been altered from (n95|n96|n78) to (n85|n96|n78). Since a .wgz file is just a .zip file with a different file extension it's simple enough to take it apart and modify it so the N95 works once again.
BBC iPlayer on Nokia N96 mobile phone 11:57am on 08 Sep 2008 There may be some technical excuses why the N95 might not be supported (e.g. while the N95 does support H.264 video, it lacks the N96's hardware acceleration, and the N96 supports WMV9 whereas the N95 doesn't) but Nokia has a vested interest in only supporting the new handset from a marketing perspective. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the new iPlayer app will only install on the N96 while being perfectly capable of running on other models.

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