[maemo-users] New N900 user - Few ideas...

[From: Timo Pelkonen]

Please keep in mind that you just can't take the symbian version and install
it to maemo. If I remember correctly there was no ovi maps for maemo 6
months ago.

And N95 had maps 1.x, N95 was released 2007...


Ossipena

2009/12/11 Kevin T. Neely <ktneely at astroturfgarden.com>

> I'm sad Ovi maps is so lacking on the N900 because it works great on
> Symbian.  That's kind of a dealbreaker for me as far as the N900 being a
> usable, main device.  hopefully they're working on it heavily, or hopefully
> we'll see a google maps client soon.
>
> actually, how well does Google maps work on the browser?  does it know
> location?
>
> thanks,
> K
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 2:28 AM, Andre Klapper <aklapper at openismus.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 23:11 -0500, Craig Woodward wrote:
>> > There are bug trackers for garage projects, but there's none for the
>> > core (haldon?) and it's shipped apps that I could find.
>>
>> See bugs.maemo.org (and feel welcome to search for existing tickets
>> first).
>>
>> > Needing a network on to get Ovi to start up (especially after
>> > pre-loading maps) makes it almost useless.
>>
>> https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5337
>>
>> > And while talking about Ovi, I'm disappointed in how lacking it is.
>>
>> It's actually "Ovi Maps". "Ovi" has several meanings in the Nokia
>> world...
>>
>> > No turn by turn, no spoken instructions (despite me downloading maps
>> > and "voice" files), no ability to save points or use saved points as
>> > route-to addresses.
>>
>> Feel free to file/check for/vote for enhancement ideas in Brainstorm at
>> http://maemo.org/community/brainstorm/ .
>>
>> andre
>>
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