The Nokia Beta Labs, as I mentioned before, are typically busy when everyone else is on vacation, and this year is no exception. Today, Ovi Maps 3.0 has graduated from Beta Labs and is available straight from Maps.Nokia.com. New features include traffic reports for North America, as well as a number of other interface adjustments and bug fixes. I’ve been using the betas on all of my devices and really like the new look and the new features, such as an auto-adjusting day/night mode, and the return of a female English UK voice (I’m a sucker for accents).
To install this new update, Nokia is daftly persisting with the silly Nokia Maps Updater, a PC-only application that does nothing other than download a .sis file and install it to your phone. For you Mac users and Linux users, it’s sort of a slap in the face, so we did some well-timed searching of our hard drive during the installation process to pull out the straight up .sis files for both S60v5 and S60v3 Feature Pack 2 devices.
Download Ovi Maps v3.0 for S60v5 here
Download Ovi Maps v3.0 for S60v3 FP2 here
If you have issues during the install, use the file browser to navigate to your memory card and delete the ‘cities’ folder, as well as the ‘qf’ file, then try the installation again. Remember to reboot your phone after you install.
