Nokia Maps 3.0: Great improvements coming

Nokia Maps is the software that I use when I travel abroad. The best new feature that I have found in the news coming from the Finland is the integration with Ovi and, more particularly, the chance to plan your trip in the web and then transfer the results to your mobile. If one image is better than one thousand words, a video is much better than a googolplex words. There you have it:



Available on S60 3rd Edition FP2 devices and soon to come on FP1... and S40 too!

Maemo and S60 nirvana

No comments. Just read the (great) news. And then wake up by reading the last line :-)

How open will the Symbian platform will be in the future?

After Nokia acquired enough shares of Symbian, they promise Symbian will be a fully open platform. Maybe they do it to stop Linux-based initiatives like Android or Limo. Whatever the reason, openness would mean to me that I can flash my N80 (abandoned from Nokia updates) with features only available for newer NSeries models so far. In my dreams :-(

Maps and mobile phones

This cool video is the winner of the S60 video contest. It perfectly shows some of the great possibilities of maps applications in mobile phones. A video is much better than a googolplex words so there you have it.

.NET CF on S60 ?

I will have to try it to believe it. By now this PDF document is all I know about this topic.