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 [...]
Challenge two: Maps challenge OVI maps has made life easier for a lot of us, and we often wonder what people did before navigation. Show us how having OVI MAPS on your N97 mini device can make life easier. Using the tools at your disposal we want you and your trunk buddy to create a [...]
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 [...]
Yesterday I got an interesting email from one of Nokia’s PR hacks, detailing a few ways that you can avoid getting a speeding ticket with your Symbian-powered smartphone. Normally I wouldn’t copy/paste like I’m about to do, but I actually found the list quite interesting and entertaining, so I’m going to anyways. Here it is: [...]
At the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show last month, Nokia revealed an upcoming game dubbed Ovi Maps Racing. The graphics are great (it’s put together by Red Lynx, the folks behind Reset Generation) but the really cool part of Ovi Maps Racing is the track creation feature. Using the maps from Ovi Maps, you can generate [...]
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 [...]
One particular area that escaped our attention during yesterday’s Nokia announcement of free worldwide and unlimited navigation on some of its newer devices, is how the new version of Ovi Maps 3.03 is now a simple .sisx download. It might not be a huge deal to all of you Windows users, but for Mac users, [...]
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, [...]
