N9Apps: Nokia Car Mode with Mirrorlink for N9/N950 available at Nokia Store
Nokia Car Mode is available for MeeGo-Harmattan – N9. Has this always been a paid app? And rather steep at £17.99?
Nokia Car Mode has been designed for in-car use to make calls, navigate to a destination, or listen to music. Enter your car, plug the phone into a MirrorLinkTM compatible infotainment system using a USB cable, and enjoy these applications on the in-car display. For making and receiving calls, the phone needs to be paired using Bluetooth with the car infotainment system. Note: Car Mode and its respective applications require a MirrorLinkTM certified car infotainment system.
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I sent a tip for this at least 5 days ago.
Not that I care all that much about acknowledgement.
You must’ve just been busy, as happens in life!
As to your Question….
The mirror-link version was/is also paid for S^3.
There normally is also a free version without mirror-link.
But I haven’t been able to find that for harmattan, grrr.
Sorry about that, but thanks for sharing a tip with us, we really appreciate it.
Yes, terribly busy the past few weeks. Things keep coming up (house renovation, house move etc) I’m only on the net for short bursts and can only see the most recent things I look at. That often means a lot of things are missed and may get worse once hospital placements start.
That’s cool, I’m just pissed that for some odd reason Nokia’s kindly decided to omit the free version for harmattan.
I wanted to test it out before investing in the mirror-link version and the appropriate head unit for my car.
But nothing surprises me any more when it comes to Nokia & supporting it’s harmattan users.
On-the-whole it’s been even more neglected than S^3′s increasingly becoming, & yet still has somehow managed to be better in many/most respects.
I’m not sure if that edge will last 6mth from now, though…
Its expensive due to MirrorLink and there is currently no version without it available for MeeGo. I suspect if one were to be released, it would be free/dramatically cheaper
What’s Mirror link?
You’re kidding me…
http://www.terminalmode.org/
http://www.mirrorlink.com/
It’s been covered heaps in tech news over the last few yrs.
You WOULD’VE read about it at some point.
http://www.mirrorlink.com/technology.html
I’ll have to see if my Chevy cruse has mirror link? I did just receive the Nokia leather carrying case cp588 for the 900 that Jay did a review on. This thing is smoking beautiful. A MUST HAVE.
No Michael, as you can see from comments here, everyone knows its expensive just because Elop is evil..
Well I don’t think most are that dumb, & there’s been no comments here which have blamed Elop, you’re the 1st to raise it.
The certification process is what you’re paying for….
The non mirror-link version (which isn’t certified/tested for the head units) is free…
Trouble is there’s no mirror-link version for the latest marquee Symbian (808PV*), nor for Harmattan.
*for older belle phones there is
Nor WP for that matter but I imagine it’ll rocket along fairly soon (at least in terms of overall time-scales).
“Unless” there’s some competing program MS wants to spearhead instead of being part of MirrorLink, time will tell.
correction:
Trouble is there’s no mirror-link version for the latest marquee Symbian (808PV*), nor for Harmattan.
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Trouble is there’s no non mirror-link version for the latest marquee Symbian (808PV*), nor for Harmattan.
True, just people blaming and flaming Nokia for adandonging and mistreating Harmattan. Which of course is to be blamed at….
And I am sure you noticed my emoticons.
It’s also worth noting that car mode isn’t available for the 808 yet – the £17.99 version with MirrorLink is, but not the free one. You can sideload Car Mode if you set your phone to a N8, but then the FM transmitter button doesn’t work
Well the pricing varies by region…I’m surprised its that expensive in Europe considering Singapore is always on the top-end of pricings but it costs $7.99 here ~ 5.30Euro
look for pirated nokia app, they dont deserve my money.
Lol
IVI – In Vehicle Infotainment (by Toyota and all other car manufacturer) have been demonstrated using ‘MirrorLink’ technology WITH Symbian Belle (and MeeGo) a year ago.
For thoese who came from Malaysia or South East Asia with fluent ‘Bahasa Melayu’ language, I’ve posted an article in Symbianku.my and talked about this amazing technology on 27 oct 2011.
Hope Nokia will consider Symbian version of ‘Nokia Car Mode’ to be available within this year! I’m so excited about this.
Link in Malay Language: http://www.symbianku.my/cakap-cakap-toyota-dan-symbian/
(I’m not hijacking this topic, but sharing the possibilities of Symbian Belle with others. How pity Nokia trow it down to the drain.. so sad..)
Nokia Car Mode for Symbian has been out since January (started in beta form)!
There’s a free version w/o mirror-link, & a paid version with mirror-link.
I meant Symbian Belle, dont know if FP1 broke it’s compatibility. But it’s certainly been out for ages compared to MeeGo.
Actually this has been there for a long long time…I guess I have seen this several weeks ago because its price shocked me!
Nope about 3wks, tops.
The Symbian version was released to Nokia store in Jan, but it wasn’t actually certified till much later.
Whereas the same flexibility wasn’t allowed for the Harmattan version.
It was certified a bit later than Symbian, & it STILL wasn’t released till many weeks after that.
Here’s this for a lil bit of background.
http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/11/sonymirrorlink-in-car-av-hits-europe/
http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/10/nokia-announces-car-mode-with-mirrorlink-support-for-symbian-bel/
http://www.engadget.com/tag/mirrorlink/
I guess the Mirrorlink part makes it worth it only if you have a system that supports it. I have a AV input in my car so I use the Nokia 3.5mm to AV cable that came with my N97 or N900 to mirror my screen on my N9 though with no touch input on the car screen.
Why complain about the software price? The expensive part is the car!
Exactly, or even just the right head-unit is way pricier than the software!
can somebody help me to buy this application? i am willing to pay double for it.