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Nokia Maps Update Adds 3D Topography, Route Sync With Your PC
Posted by John Mahoney at 1:40 AM on December 3, 2008
Along with the brand new touch N97, Nokia also unveiled new software at its Nokia World show in Spain today--bringing a free new version of Maps and updated email/IM services.
The new Maps 3.0 Beta adds 3D topography and landmarks for 216 cities, high-res satellite photos, improved pedestrian directions and better turn-by-turn support. You can also plan a route online via Nokia's desktop Ovi service and then sync it immediately back to your phone. Anyone using S60 FP2 can download the new Maps beta today--Nokia's acquisition of Navteq is definitely showing its benefits here.
The new Messaging upgrade ties in all of your email and IM accounts, providing push services for some accounts and more syncing via Ovi if you have a 1GB Ovi Mail account. Messaging with Ovi sync will launch later this month.
So if you're using a Nokia S60 piece, go grab these updates. [Nokia Maps 3.0 Beta, Nokia Messaging]
Comments (AU Comments · US Comments)
garglebutt
Posted December 3, 2008 9:09 AM
If you are running an S60 feature set 2 you can grab this. Support for S60 feature set 1 phones like my Nokia E71 is pending.
dc-united
Posted 3:03 AM 3/12/08
@baltwade: I agree, but sometimes coolness is its own reward, no?
dc-united
baltwade
Posted 3:02 AM 3/12/08
The 3D topographical map (far right picture) seems really cool, but I just can't figure what practical use it has. Maybe you have a Prius and you want to avoid steep hills or something like that. I still think it's a neat option even if I don't know why I would ever use it.
baltwade
aerospaceman
Posted 2:49 AM 3/12/08
cool, I use Nokia maps sometimes, too bad my phone doesn't have Internet or GPS :P
aerospaceman
iAirmanshirk
Posted 3:18 AM 3/12/08
@Killtodie:
nahh thats blackberry, seen their new slogan?
Blackberry: Used by terrorists
iAirmanshirk
Killtodie
Posted 3:13 AM 3/12/08
perfect for terrorists
Killtodie
iAirmanshirk
Posted 3:11 AM 3/12/08
Catching up nokia, keep going, dont give up yet :)
iAirmanshirk
Curves
Posted 3:07 AM 3/12/08
@baltwade: It its pretty cool and I can see using it when I am lost, as I often look for natural landmarks to figure out where the hell I am.
Curves
Jon B.
Posted 3:38 AM 3/12/08
@rospaya: Here Here! Comeon Giz -.-
Jon B.
iAirmanshirk
Posted 3:29 AM 3/12/08
@rospaya:
But i suppose anyone supporting apple and liking revolutionary products are considered trolls.
iAirmanshirk
iAirmanshirk
Posted 3:29 AM 3/12/08
@rospaya:
how am i a troll... im encouraging nokia? Especially with their new phone just being announced
iAirmanshirk
rospaya
Posted 3:24 AM 3/12/08
@iAirmanshirk: How come nobody banned this troll yet?
rospaya
bluevoter
Posted 3:56 AM 3/12/08
But you have to be running Windoze to get the updates. Nokia leaves Mac and Linux users in the cold.
bluevoter
rospaya
Posted 3:42 AM 3/12/08
@iAirmanshirk: No, only you. I haven't got the time to analyse all of your comments, but the last couple of ones are enough to show your blind hatred of everything not-Apple, no matter what the product is.
rospaya
baltwade
Posted 4:09 AM 3/12/08
@iAirmanshirk:
If I didn't know you were being serious this would have been the funniest quote I'd ever read on Giz, but instead it's the saddest.baltwade
Qwertyfreak is jumping on the bandwagon
Posted 4:02 AM 3/12/08
That actually looks pretty cool. Extremely similar to Google Maps, yes. But cool nonetheless.
Qwertyfreak is jumping on the bandwagon
Qwertyfreak is jumping on the bandwagon
Posted 4:01 AM 3/12/08
@rospaya: Good job, he didn't even mention Apple until after you commented.
Qwertyfreak is jumping on the bandwagon
ezman
Posted 5:07 AM 3/12/08
@iAirmanshirk: Get outta here. Your overt fanboyism is making me not like Apple anymore. It's annoying and only a bit short of trolling.
ezman
Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude disguised as another dude
Posted 5:00 AM 3/12/08
I just downloaded it. Not bad. I usually flip back and forth between this and Google Maps.
Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude disguised as another dude
rospaya
Posted 5:27 AM 3/12/08
@Qwertyfreak is jumping on the bandwagon: I really don't want to argue with anybody, but with a nickname "iAirmanshirk" and an iPhone in his avatar, he really didn't have to. His comment is still trollish.
rospaya
Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude disguised as another dude
Posted 5:22 AM 3/12/08
@bluevoter: I downloaded it right on my phone. I went to the download folder. It updated the available downloads and the Nokia Maps updater was right there at the bottom of the list.
Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude disguised as another dude
iAirmanshirk
Posted 5:57 AM 3/12/08
@rospaya:
Now that is a stereotype, but im sure someone like you with no education would make that assumption.
iAirmanshirk
frigg
Posted 6:34 AM 3/12/08
@ezman: ...in which case, he'd be a very effective Apple-basher. Assuming he's not that clever, best to view him as the Apple equivalent of tattooed Zune guy, part performance art, part cautionary tale.
frigg
rospaya
Posted 6:25 AM 3/12/08
@iAirmanshirk: I could probably find your facebook, linkedin and info about you, but it's not the level of discussion Gizmodo needs.
rospaya
NatNit
Posted 10:11 AM 3/12/08
hmm 3d topography being added, yet the iphone doesn't even have decent turn-by-turn directions...So much for such a 'revolutionary product' hey iAirmanshirk?!?
NatNit
mkat_tdc
Posted 6:56 PM 3/12/08
@baltwade: Its for when Bear Grylls wants to pull over onto the shoulder of a highway and film some survival.
mkat_tdc
15sunrises
Posted 8:16 PM 3/12/08
@baltwade:
Photography.
15sunrises