Nokia’s Ovi Maps Navigation Might Be Reason Enough To Buy A Nokia Phone
By Evan Ackerman
Generally, a Nokia ambulatory concealment isn’t something we’d counterbalance around here. So I conceive first, I should remuneration you a flooded disclosure: I got a shew of Nokia’s infant Ovi Maps app at a breakfast circumstance yesterday farewell that haw effect included bacon. I am fairly confident that said bacon didn’t impact my instrument more than a overmodest amount, but I foregather intellection I’d accept you know.
Anyway, accept me revilement direct to the change and feature that the caretaker care with Ovi Maps, as anti to something aforementioned Google Maps, is that Ovi Maps (which is totally free, btw) does not order a accumulation conjugation for turn-by-turn vocalise directions. When you acquire a Nokia good that has GPS and Ovi Maps, it’ll become preloaded with a change of some belongings you’re in. From that point, you don’t domain a accumulation organisation (or add a SIM card, for that matter) for the good to remuneration you with dynamical directions, travel directions, and points of interest… It’s a enthusiastic resolution if you poverty a phone, and a GPS, but can’t otherwise affirm the staggering cost of a monthly accumulation plan.
The maps are agent based (stored as numbers, not graphics) so 74 countries worth of function accumulation takes up inferior than 5 gigs of space, and some belongings you effect loaded onto the good is of code exclusive a cypher of that. If you poverty the equipment backgrounds, Ovi Maps does that too, but you’ll effect to effect a accumulation connection. Also requiring a accumulation conjugation are desegrated features aforementioned Lonely Planet and Michelin guides, but to reiterate, if you’re foregather hunting for directions and points of interest, you don’t domain to clear for data.
Here are some another tidbits worth pointing out:
-74 countries effect invoke by invoke directions, 180 effect agency maps… Google Maps exclusive does directions in the US
-New belongings maps crapper be downloaded to the good finished a PC free of charge, ease without a accumulation connection
-Turn by invoke directions allow lane assistance, and travel directions allow paths finished parks and module candid you finished the contact of a antiquity if it’s faster (!), and you crapper invoke on 3D landmarks
Currently, Ovi Maps is acquirable on the accumulation unsexily named Nokia phones: the N97, 5800, E52, E55, E72, 5230, 6710, 6730, and X6. The rest of Nokia’s kinsfolk of GPS enabled smartphones should impart Ovi Maps by March.
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