For users of the Nokia N97 flagship handset, some might be painfully aware of the bad GPS reception on this particular handset along with other issues such as the camera slider. Having bad GPS reception simply defies the usage of OVI Maps (which I use quite often) or social GPS applications such as Waze. I’m [...]
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 [...]
Our friend Vaibhav Sharma of TheSymbianBlog recently attended a Q&A session with the Ovi Maps folks, where he learned all sorts of cool things about Ovi Maps and where they’d like to take the service in the near future. He also got a tip about an upcoming service, dubbed ‘Ovi Journeys’. Reportedly, Ovi Journeys is [...]
What is that, you ask? First of all, it involves augmented reality, combined with the use of camera, sensors and location based services and you have the Around Project, a new exciting application currently being developed by Seqpoint Software. Currently it only works with the N97 due to the different sensors in this particular handset, [...]
Nokia Isn’t Done With Maps, There’s More To Come, was what we told you and now things are starting bloom. On June 8, Forum Nokia is holding a webinar about Nokias new OVI Maps Player API which makes it easy to integrate OVI Maps directly on a website. They’re seeking innovative ideas for mobile applications [...]
Yesterday Nokia sent out a press release covering its Nokia Maps product, revealing some plans for the future of this service. The announcement stems from Where 2.0, a conference taking place in San Jose, California, that Nokia attended last year, as well. The conference focuses on location-based services and applications using location to help consumers. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
We let you know about Nokia’s Friend View application/service last week, and have been using it off-and-on ourselves. It seems to work great, but apparently there were some bugs, because Nokia has just released an update, to v.83.3 (over .83.0). There’s no changelog, and it wasn’t officially announced anywhere, but I’ve already updated and am [...]
