Waze, our favorite social navigation application, just let us know that users will see some new road goodies on the maps, starting today. The new road goodies – heart-shaped ‘love balloons’ and cupid’s arrow, will replace the holiday-themed candy canes and snowflakes. The Waze team says there will be more of these on the maps, [...]
After nearly a week of build-up, Nokia finally announced their big Ovi announcement…..free premium content in Ovi Maps…on a select number of handsets. There are currently over 83 million GPS-enabled Nokia devices in the market, apparently, and thanks to Navteq, they have voice-guided turn-by-turn directions for 74 different countries around the world. Says Anssi Vanjoki, [...]
While doing my research for my Context Awareness on Symbian article yesterday, I stumbled upon two interesting facts. The first one is that context-aware applications are now available on a lot of platforms, like Locale on Android which happens to offer a very similar experience to Best Profiles (with a few bonuses and minus the [...]
Maps application is in the wind and I’m going a little retro this time. I first learned about this application through a post on AAS three years ago. As the name indicates it’s a map application which offers you the functions such as being planning of a route, zoom in and zoom out of a [...]
When Nokia purchased Gate5 several years ago, and then Navteq and Plazes more recently, we knew the company was betting big on location-based services. Since then, Nokia Maps has come out, all the way up to the beta of V3.0, with Ovi Synchronization and a host of other cool updates. We’ve seen a few other [...]
The Nokia Beta Labs is on a roll, starting out this week with updates to both the webmail portion of Ovi Mail and Nokia FriendView. Ovi Mail is the free web-based email service that started out differently from most webmail services, mainly because it started as a mobile-only signup, whereas most webmail services such as [...]
Despite having its own mobile operating system, Google does a great job of bringing cool features and applications to all mobile phones. Today’s example is called Latitude, and it’s integrated into the already popular Google Maps Mobile. Latitude allows you to share your location with your friends, through Google Maps Mobile. There are also fine-tuned [...]
This popped up on the Forum Nokia blogs, and I thought it was rather interesting. Developer Paul Coulton has gotten back into location-based services, and come up with Point’N’Seek, a new search application that uses your location, as well as other sensors to take a flashlight approach to location-based searching. The application uses sensors such [...]
Out of the blue today, Nokia Beta Labs has launched a new service + app, called Nokia Friend View. This is in conjunction with the Nokia Research Center, and is a social-GPS location-based service that allows you to broadcast your location to your friends, as well as get status updates, similar to Jaiku. The service [...]
