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 [...]
The Nokia Beta Labs have just announced the final beta version of Ovi Maps 3.0 is available, and this time there’s full support for ALL of the most recent Symbian smartphones, including S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2 and S60 5th Edition smartphones, like the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic and N97! I’ve been secretly testing an [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Well, over 2 months after Nokia World, we finally have an updated version of Nokia Maps v3.0, which I’ve been using on my Nokia N79 for several weeks now. If you’ve already forgotten, this new version introduces some nice UI changes, but more significantly, allows you to synchronize your landmarks and saved routes with the [...]
Let me preface this by saying that, aside from the need for a Windows-based plugin, the online portion of Nokia’s new Maps v3.0 on Ovi is really pretty cool. The site is smooth, uses my Nokia/Ovi account, and it’s pretty. However, the device experience of Nokia Maps v3.0 is a complete and utter fail, in [...]
This week at Nokia World here in Barcelona, Nokia announced its new Maps on Ovi service, which allows anyone using Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari to synchronize landmarks and routes that you create on your desktop to your phone, wirelessly, using your Nokia/Ovi account. The service will work on Windows, Mac, or Linux, thanks to [...]
