Hello All, In this day and age of superphones, HD screens, Quad and Dual-Core CPUs, millions of polygons per second GPUs, unibody construction, 5+inch screens and 41MP monster cameras and nearly a million apps across OSes, I almost wonder how did we make it in the “dark ages” of mobile technology a few years ago. While [...]
How about starting your weekend with a bit of riot worthy news? Pocket-lint is reporting that the apps Nokia create for Windows Phone are also going to be available on devices from their competitors like HTC and Samsung. Pocket-lint had an interview with Marco Argenti, senior vice president of Developer and Marketplace at Nokia partly [...]
From Nokia Conversations, The Official Nokia Blog: “GLOBAL – Today Nokia and news network CNN have announced plans for an international agreement which will see Nokia providing rich mapping services to the network. You may have already seen the first fruits of this collaboration when CNN used Nokia’s new 3D maps to show the route [...]
To say we were impressed with Ovi Maps 3D in an understatement. The media are praising it too. One thing in everyone’s minds. “HOW DID THEY DO IT?” I assumed photos and mesh (created with laser scanners?)Being photo realistic, they were essentially photos put onto very accurate 3D meshes (hence photos of cars on the [...]
You remember that 3D mapping stuff we saw examples of WAY, back showing off some pretty cool implications for the future of maps under Nokia and Navteq’s tutelage?? Well Nokia have made good on that promise, announcing their Ovi Maps 3D beta for browsers everywhere. Imagine Google maps 3D on steroids and you should have [...]
You may have heard the snippet from Reuters about Nokia NAVTEQ acquiring Trapser. Trapster is a cross platform app that enables crowd sourcing, allowing it’s current 9.4 million users to share traffic/speed trap cameras/road hazards data. Currently, over 3.5 Million traps have been reported. According to Autoblog, five companies were interested in acquiring Trapster, resulting [...]
A couple of days ago, NAVTEQ (subsidiary of Nokia) bought PixelActive who specialize in the creation of 3D buildings, roads, highways and cities. They have a city builder tool that you can use to create your own city (or recreate a real one). Alex68 (cheers for the heads up) says that the PixelActive video has [...]
Thanks to Alex68 for the heads up to mynokiablog.com/tips on this post from Mobile Choice UK. They’ve awarded the N8 the title of Best Sat Nav. And here’s their reason why: Nokia announced this year that its excellent Ovi Maps would not only no longer cost a penny, you could also utilise your Nokia’s navigation [...]
Here’s what you could say are mini documentaries showing the Nokia N8 as an integral part (well at least being quite useful:p) to the lives of these three individual sets of people. 1)London’s No.1 video paparazzi Nokia UK follows London’s best known video paparazzi, Brett Andre as he uses Ovi maps on his Nokia N8 [...]
Here’s a test of some Satellite Navigation solutions for the Nokia N8 as demonstrated in a little car trip (hopefully the N8 not be plagued by inconsistent quality of GPS connectivity – it does now support A-GPS, Satellite and WiFi positioning for improved location awareness and stability) Audio seems a little harsh on the Ovi [...]
Thanks to N#O#R#U#L#E#S for the heads up at mynokiablog.com/tips. Here’s a look at Ovi Maps 3.06 with the Nokia N8. Ovi Maps has truly graduated as a powerful and convincing service from Nokia and NAVTEQ. Everything works a little bit nicer, slightly fewer button presses, with now pinch and zoom and smooth map scrolling as [...]
In all the Nokia N8 demoes we’ve seen thus far, Ovi Maps has only been shown to zoom with the zoom bar. Multitouch is available on the N8 but it was not yet working for Ovi Maps (though it was mentioned to be coming soon) In this 25 minute video (Skip to 24:05) you’ll see [...]
Nokia conversations are running an Accent Competition to celebrate their new “Own Voice” App to record your own voice packs for Ovi Maps Voice/Turn by Turn Navigation. Check out this cool video above. At first, the lady (Amy Walker) came across as pretty crazy (wasn’t expecting such contrast of accent, thought she was going loopy!), [...]
I didn’t get a chance to blog about this or even attend the final NokiaNav meetup when NokiaNav was happening as I was in the middle of some really important exams. (Shame as there was a huge collection of Nokia folk at the meetup ) It was so hard to avoid as you’ve got 5 [...]
You might have read this already, but in case you haven’t this is a must to check out. Possibly one of Nokia’s best home grown apps. “Own Voice” – an ambiguous name, lets you user your OWN voice for Ovi Maps turn by turn directions! Brilliant! And of course, it is free from the OVI [...]
The second of today’s postings of Ovi Maps adverts. (Check out “Lost…Really Lost“) Nokia’s really ramping it up to let everyone know you have FREE sat nav with Nokia Smartphones. I like the phrase at the end…”you have reached your destination….you have reached your destination”. It’s a very global affair. Nokia – getting you where [...]
Sometimes, being lost can get you into lots of trouble. If you had Ovi Maps, you’d avoid all that wouldn’t you? This poor guy only had a paper map, and no one really knows how to use them anymore. He gets lost, but is ‘found’ by this Welsh woman. He’s trapped. And been trapped for [...]
Here’s a Pretty cool video of Ovi Maps Projection in London. But it isn’t your usual projection as you get to be in what’s being projected, and it interacts with Ovi related items like arrows or pin bubbles. It’s in part to celebrate Nokia giving away Ovi Maps for free FOREVER on all new Nokia [...]
Not sure exactly what the prize is, it seems to be the N97 mini given that’s what’s in the video (and it is a great Nokia GPS phone!) though it could be something else. Anyway, if you fancy winning yourself a free GPS enabled phone all you have to do is share how you use [...]
Navigation got really good after Ovi Maps 3.03, (see 10 reasons to love Ovi Maps) Not only did we get free pedestrian and car turn by turn navigation, Ovi Maps received a complete facelift over the previous version with so many new things to enjoy such as city guides, proper search and improved compass. And [...]
Last Sunday, Symbian unleashed their roadmap giving details of multicore powered Symbian^5 and Symbian^6 OS. We got a glimpse of the progress of Symbian on touch screens with Symbian^3 UI video. It went Viral on youtube, shooting up to the most viewed as it demonstrated a very promising future for Symbian with features such as [...]
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