According Steve Litchfield of AllAboutSymbian, N95 8GB’s new firmware v15.0.015 is speed-boosting. I was denied the upgrade possible because I’m currently in the US where the N95GB isn’t widely available yet.

Changes so far:

• The likes of Gallery and Search are now both faster and also kept resident in memory (even after pressing ‘Exit’), in the same was as Contacts, so that they’re much more responsive when needed.
• Speed of access to the integral 8GB flash memory disk has been improved. Doing an ‘Image store’ from PC Suite only took 30 seconds to scan my device, rather than several minutes on v11 firmware.
• Bugs have obviously been quoshed under the hood. In particular, the one that was stopping lots of third party themes working has gone – PiZero’s New Gold, here I come
• UPDATE: Flash Lite 3 and Flash video is now fully supported, I just watched native YouTube content – although emTube gives a better overall experience.

It sounds like it’s worth it to spend some time getting the N95 8GB upgraded.