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Join Date: Nov 2008
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Nokia Ovi Maps
Just wondering if any one uses theses on their Nokia phones?
I know they're advertised as free sat nav software, but is there cahrges for its use such as bandwidth etc? Or is it totally free? |
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: UK
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Data will never be truly free, but you can switch off that part of it, so it runs "totally free".
Quite good as well
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Join Date: Jan 2003
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there are a couple of things....
downloading the maps takes data. but you can download them on your computer using the nokia map loader. finding your position using a-gps takes a tiny bit of data <1kB some searches seem to use data. |
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Sunny South Coast
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I use it on a Nokia5800. There was a recent upgrade for it, (at least if was recent for me), and i think, for a freebie, it's a cracking app.
I've just come back from a trip to Belgium where I used it to get me from hotel to meeting place. I'd previously donwloaded the maps for Belgium and set my phone to have to request online access for any app, so denied it access when it asked to go online. For walking, as I was doing, set the map in 3D mode and off you go, complete with voice assistance, it was as good as a tom-tom. |
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Join Date: Oct 2004
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I have noticed that if it does not go online that sometimes it cannot compute a Drive route. I have not been able to fathom the rhyme or reason for when it does this. The workaround is to get it do a Walk route instead which never fails but needs more care to drive to (watch out for those pedestrian precincts!
).I tried to install the recent upgrade yesterday but it complained about there not being enough internal memory. Anyone else had this problem on their 5800 and how do you get to see all the memory that seems to be hidden as I can't find out what is taking up 60MB odd of memory. Is that where the OS lives? |
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