When Nokia announced it was killing off N-Gage, I assumed that also meant the game development department inside Nokia was being killed off. On the contrary, it seems as though gaming is alive and well at Nokia, with the announcement of Climate Mission earlier today, and now this sneak preview of Ovi Maps Racing, shown [...]
Like the known Greek explorer Pytheas, this newly announced application from MojosMobile aims to help you explore the world. Pytheas, which is labeled as Coming Soon from the developers of Twittix and Easy Map, is a location-based application that uses Google’s Panoramio service to bring a photographic evidence of the world around you into your [...]
A new update to the desktop web version of Nokia’s Ovi Maps has been rolled out, called ‘Good Things’. Basically, this is user-generated P.O.I’s, and it allows you to mark ‘good things’ that you know of on the map, and share those landmarks with the world. Ovi Maps Good Things is most likely a result [...]
Yesterday we exposed the main issue faced by the full suite of Ovi software offered by Nokia. We explained how the different services don’t interact with each other and how it’s almost impossible to get a complete experience out of them. Today, we try to make suggestions as to how we envision a true and [...]
It’s almost 2 years since Nokia first shed light on its Ovi services strategy, and over these 2 years, we’ve seen the different pieces of the puzzle launch individually then start to get together under one roof. Numerous improvements have been carried in the way these services joined under a single Nokia/Ovi account, and how [...]
Just this afternoon, in their usual quiet manner, Google released updates to its YouTube and Google Maps apps for Symbian-powered smartphones. The updates are rather big ones, though unfortunately neither of the apps have the ability to automatically check for new versions, before or after the update. The new YouTube app now fully supports S60v5 [...]
Just announced is the signing of a three year contract between Roadpilot and Nokia. Roadpilot is a company that offers devices for GPS tracking, speed camera warning and traffic alerts. The contract includes a bundled package of Roadpilot’s speed camera and traffic alert, soon to come to OVI Maps. According to Dr Vesa Luiro, Director [...]
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 [...]
For those of you who don’t know Métro it’s a free software which (obviously) covers routes of subways and undergrounds in most of the major cities and countries in the world. Their latest addition features new cities added to the database, changes to a number of cities as well as bugfixes for phones running the [...]
