Nokia has updated its S60 3rd Edition (Nseries et al) Maps application, adding user-requested features including a data-use counter, and an indicator to show when you’re connected to a satellite. Also improved is the user interface, which has been ’streamlined’, and the search categories have been updated.
The new version also comes with a free three-day trial Navigation license (the useful bit), which should function in around 50 of the 150 countries that have been mapped (full list here). Also updated is the PC-only Nokia Map Loader
app, which is designed to ease the process of loading new maps into your phone.
You can check it all out & download from Nokia’s Maps pages — obviously you need a GPS-enabled phone to use it. Having checked the coverage list, we’re curious to know how Ewan McGregor managed to ‘”stay on track” all the way through Africa with a 6110 Navigator handset, given that only South Africa is offered with navigable mapping…
You said: “Having checked the coverage list, we’re curious to know how Ewan McGregor managed to ‘â€stay on track†all the way through Africa with a 6110 Navigator handset, given that only South Africa is offered with navigable mapping…”
The 6110 Navigator uses different navigation software: Route 66 with Navteq maps (see http://www.66.com). Because it uses different navigation software, it also offers free voice navigation and automatic re-routing (unlike the N95). Nokia’s Smart2Go maps can, however, be installed on a 6110 in addition to the Route66 maps if desired.
Ah… fair enough. As you say, you can actually run Nokia Maps on the 6110 Navigator as well as the Route 66 stuff, but you’d probably not feel much need to.