If you’ve ever been travelling and decided to stop for the night without planning ahead, then you already know that most travel sites look horrid on your phone – for whatever reason, most of the big-name travel sites haven’t put alot of thought into their mobile-friendly versions, or hadn’t 6-7 months ago when I tried [...]
Nokia has been betting big on its Ovi Maps with free navigation, letting us know in a blog post this morning that it has been downloaded over 10 million times in the past 3 months, which is quite an achievement. The team has released an update today that supposedly makes Ovi Maps faster, better, and [...]
I’ve asked for it for a long time, and Nokia finally relented, releasing Ovi Maps Own Voice. This app, available for free from the Ovi Store, lets you spend a few minutes recording your own voice to be used in Ovi Maps’ voice-guided navigation. Through the app you can record the 53 most often-used phrases [...]
Google Maps Mobile just keeps passing up Ovi Maps with every update. Today’s update to v4.1 includes the addition of voice search. Yes, that’s right, when you’ve launched Google Maps Mobile on your phone, simply press your phone’s ‘send’ button (the green one) and say what you want to search for. Google Maps Mobile will [...]
ViewRanger has been around for a while – I remember Steve Litchfield raving about it quite some time ago. However, the company has updated their Symbian client and released it on the various Symbian app stores – including Nokia’s Ovi Store. The new update includes a handful of cool features, such as the ability to [...]
Last week, Nokia announced that Ovi Maps navigation will be free for a handful of devices, which is a huge deal, and a big plus for Nokia owners around the world. Unfortunately, at the time of the announcement, owners of the original N97 were left in the cold due to the extremely limited internal storage [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
