Nokia E71 & E66 Join the Free Navigation Foray

E71 , the best QWERTY every sold , and it’s younger sibling E66 today joins the OVI Maps Free Navigation lineup , after Nokia N97, Nokia N97 mini, Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, Nokia 5800 Navigation Edition, Nokia E52, Nokia E55, Nokia E72, Nokia 5230, Nokia 6710 Navigator, Nokia 6730 classic, Nokia X6, and Nokia N86 8MP. [...]

Discovering Pakistan with OVI Maps

I was never a big OVI Maps fan , Nokia and Navteq not having detailed maps of Pakistan or even my city Karachi , one of the largest metropolis of the world with a population upward of 17 million people , OVI Maps were no use for me and I was using Garmin XT with [...]

Planning a Trip with OVI Maps

OVI Maps , Nokia’s free for all Navigation Tool is great for planning a trip  .  For me the service is of no use in Pakistan as there are no maps available , but since  the maps had been set free , whenever I or any of my colleagues travel aboard , it’s an essential [...]

OVI Maps going Huge

Nokia is going huge with OVI Maps , first it was the announcement that it’s Free For All Than came the big news that it’s being downloaded once every sec so by the time you are done reading this blog hundreds of mobile phones will have OVI Maps on them and with 1.4 million plus [...]

OVI Maps – Navigate For Free

Today , 21/1/2010 , Nokia set the Navigation free , unbound by licensing fees , Nokia users can use Drive and Walk Navigation for free in 180 countries with Voice Turn by Turn Navigation available for 74 countries , 46 Different languages and Traffic Information available for more than 10 countries all Gratis ,  for [...]

OVI Maps – The future is Navigation

It all started in 2006 when Nokia realized that Navigation is going to be big given the popularity of their then flagship Nokia N95 and it’s follow-up Nokia N95 – 8 GB both of which were the first phones to feature GPS and changed the way we look at mobile phones today . The purchasing [...]

OVI Maps Beta for N97

At the Click Here’ target=_blank>Click Here’ target=_blank>Nokia World 2009 , where Nokia talked much about the devices , they also introduced many enhancement on their already existent range of services like the OVI Maps Beta . Recetly released in version 3.03 09 Wk 35 for their ‘Flagship’  N97 , it’s sibling Nokia N97 Mini and [...]

OVI Maps Covering Pakistan

Finally OVI Maps is finally supporting Pakistan , well not full street by street Navigation , atleast they have begun with the POIs , no more results from 400 kms away in India when I search for a place to eat , It now shows Cafe Flo and Arizona Grill some 5 kms away from [...]

OVI did it again

Last time it was the Cooler which ate away Nokia lost Ovi Contacts   and this time Ovi Maps lost the user’s Favorites data from late February to  April .  Although Nokia claims most of it is restored but still check what you’ve lost . Last time the blame fell on Cooler , this time the [...]

Nokia Maps 3.0

Finally Nokia has released Maps 3.0 for Series 60 Fp1 , that means e71 is now supported , I’m installing it right now , will post the review later in the evening Mappingly Farhan