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It's not every day that you get direct feedback from the team behind a major manufacturer's software project. Following on from my Maps 2.0 preview, Nokia got in touch, answering some of my criticisms and giving more information about the future of the product. What's going to be added next to Maps, how to plan routes for free, why the satellite images aren't quite there yet, integration with Location Tagger and a future web-based map sync tool, it's all covered. http://www.hongblog.net
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I think this sort of communication is very encouraging and a good sign for the future.
I hope other people at Nokia are watching this (and learn from it). Great to see this kind of positive two conversation. Hopefully someone will buy the Maps team a beer at the next Ovi team meeting
I got the beta on my E90 and on the internal screen, the buttons at the right side of the screen that show e.g. options and close are wrongly placed
What I mean is that when you want to go to the options, you click on options but nokia maps closes, when you click on close, the options menu appears...
I hope they fix that bug fast.
Until the GPS receivers in Nokia's handsets are better routing with Maps or any other app using the built-in receiver is a novelty feature for occasional use.
My N95 will often lose the signal a crucial moment during a car journey, often in a built-up area when the GPS signal is in the shadow of a building. A dedicated Tomtom unit with a 20 channel 3 receiver does not have the same problem.
I'd say the GPS are fine in all the recent devices - N95 8GB, N82 etc. I'd agree the N95 classic was bad though.
Have the gps units changed at all from the n95 classic? I thought all nokia phones had the same gps units in them.
It's the same receiver in all current Nokia handsets.
A dedicated TOMTOM units is exactly what you wrote, a "dedicated" units that is designed to be installed into a car. With the N95 (or other similar devices) you have an all in one that is very useful in cases like travels for job or other activities. For example, I used it during trekking and cross country skiing sessions. Anyway, I used also very often my N95 as a car navigator device without great problems and I am very satisfied. Consider that I my external BT sirf star III receiver is at present collecting dust.
I hope it would be possible to compose a route through several points (e.g. not only navigate to, but navigate to X, through points A, B and C, etc.)
Nokia have used the same GPS chip in all the current models of phones - N95, N95 8Gb, 6110, N82. I dont know about the new models coming out however.
But suffice to say, the current GPS chip is good enough. I have found that there seems to be 2 main problems with them, one N95 specific:
Often the AGPS server address isnt correct, sometimes it has odd addresses which seem to relate to the network the phone is on.
The proper address (for ANY network) should be: supl.nokia.com
And in N95s, it appears theres a problem with the arials. On some units, people have complained about not getting a lock no matter what they do, and others that it loses it too easy.
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