Nokia has launched a guide to Euro 2012. Users can find the information and location of the stadiums and the full list of matches that will be played on. When clicking on cities like Kiev and Warsaw, the link takes you to the City Guides, where one can see the current time and weather information, city facts as well as [...]
Nokia Maps (previously Ovi Maps) has just been released from the super amazing top secret beta labs over to Nokia store, Except it’s only for Belle devices!? When I tried downloading it over the PC with my phone set to ‘N8′ it said the application wasn’t available; however if you simply change your device to any [...]
A lot of negativity has been made of Nokia’s decision to adopt the Windows Phone software ecosystem as their primary smartphone platform going forward. A decision seen as frivolous and ignorant to some while seen as a last ditch move by what’s seen as an utterly failing company ( a sentiment I disagree with). The [...]
Just three months after being acquired (acquired in April), MetaCarta Inc. is leaving Nokia for QBase. MetaCarta’s is a unique technology that combines geosearch and geotagging capabilities allowing users to find content about a location. Nokia will keep MetaCarta’s geographic intelligence technology, which it is incorporating in its local search and other services such as [...]
Nokia’s Ovi Maps has a feature called 3D landmarks (and 3D view mode). The rest of the (NAVTEQ) maps is fairly flat with silhouettes of buildings/houses. Now Imagine that the entire Maps system navigation experience had full 3D, with every building rendered to the correct proportion. This would be a great next step to Ovi [...]
Nokia have released a couple of ads about getting to the “Good Things” using Ovi Maps. If you check it out, you’ll see some fancy holographic UI looking elements. It looks really cool! I know it’s merely there to just label and describe what’s happening but I’m actually finding it a little annoying to see [...]
Thanks to WOMWorld and Nokia, as part of the “Good Things” event, we got the chance to quiz Nokia’s senior global marketing manager, Arshia Varlet and colleagues Guiseppe (Pino) and Danesh on Ovi Maps. Here’s the 20 minute video of that session, underneath the transcript – questions in bold and additional thoughts/clarifications I meant in [...]
Just a quicky-post as we’re going down for breakfast in a mo. After dinner yesterday, I thought I’d borrow everyone’s Nokia N97s and snap a photo of them together. (I like seeing masses of phones ) Yesterday, if you’ve been following #ovigoodthings on twitter you may have seen these pics already. (Thanks everyone for lending [...]
This morning, the DHL man and Postman delivered several Good Things…some books, cheques from the lettings agency…and: train tickets to London and back WOMWorld Package with Good Things box (actually a pretty big box), containing: a euro-uk converter; Nokia N97 box; and a green Good Things arrow. Here’s an itinerary of what we’re gonna be [...]
On Monday I got an email from WOMWorld inviting me to a “top secret” event happening in London and it’s supposedly taking place around 22nd/23rd October. [link - wordpress in chrome sucks] I wanted to wait until I knew more about what was happening, but even after the phone call from WOMWorld’s Katie this afternoon [...]
The Nokia N97 has a compass mainly for rotating your maps to align with the roads/surroundings as you turn your phone. It doesn’t rotate instantly towards north like a real compass – and so, needs a bit of calibration, which according to the manual, the method is to swing your phone in an 8-shape like [...]
Ovi Maps 3.0 is the latest edition of Nokia’s free Sat-Nav software. Below is a screenshot taken from Ovi Maps 3.0 on the Nokia N97. The improvements with Ovi Maps 3.0 are well worth the time to upgrade because the interface is much improved, requiring much less menu wading and button pressing than the previous [...]
This video demos the widgets and the N97′s compass.(Note to self, get screen wipes for the N97) The point of the compass is to orientate your map in the direction which your facing. From the video, you can see it’s very sensitive thus a very promising addition to Nokia Maps. No more looking at your [...]
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