After a long public Beta, Nokia Maps has finally graduated out of Beta and is available for download for all FP1 devices. This will also mean that future devices and firmwares will make come with Maps 2 preinstalled, a big plus as Maps 2 does a lot more than the maps application the phones currently ship with.
Nokia today announced that its highly anticipated update for Nokia Maps has left beta stage and is now ready for consumers to download.
Downloaded over 240,000 times since announced in February, Nokia Maps 2.0 has improved its optional Car Navigation, enhanced its pedestrian navigation, added multimedia city guides, now offers satellite images, and is sporting a [...]
Nokia is extending its mobile navigation system to the Web via its Ovi.com site, where people will be able to save map locations and routes and then synchronize them with their phones.
Maps on Ovi, unveiled Monday at the Where 2.0 conference in Burlingame, California, builds on Nokia’s next generation of mobile-phone navigation technology, Nokia [...]
I think you all know “Nokia Maps”, the own navigation software of the Finnish mobile giant which is preinstalled on every new S60 device.
The completely reworked version “Nokia Maps v2.0 Beta” has been relased some time ago which brought great new features and got very close to established applications like “Route 66″.
The current version v2.0 [...]
Mobile interaction is restricted by the small display dimensions of mobile devices. This situation can be improved by using mobile devices as magic lenses for large scale external displays that the user finds embedded in the environment. Paper maps are an example of such ubiquitously available external displays.
Traditional paper-based maps are still superior to [...]
Renault Brazil and Nokia Brazil have joined forces to offer technology-savvy Brazilians an automobile that combines modern design with the most advanced mobile technology available today. The special edition Sandero Nokia will be the first Renault model produced in Brazil to come equipped with Nokia’s complete mobility solution, including device, services & software and original [...]
You don’t need maps for driving now.
Given the safety concerns of using a cell phone while driving, the words of that old Paul Evans song from the 60s (Seven Little Girls Sitting In The Back Seat) may strike a chord or perhaps a ringtone is now more fitting.
I have reported that the N95 8GB NAM is finally available in the US. The new version, also known as N95-4, brings 3G for the US (WCDMA).
The Nokia Blog has already received the new N95 8GB as one of the first and has posted some nice unboxing pictures.
Actually the N95 8GB NAM looks completely the [...]
AAS had reported a few days back that Nokia Maps has hit beta 2.0. The new application came with a new Map loader version 1.3.5. You can download Nokia Maps beta 2.0 and the Map Loader here. I had expected some sort of data update for India with the new map loader but it didn’t happen immediately. Today I just found the the map data for India has been upped from the earlier 21 MB to 24.1 MB.