Ok, I'm about to upgrade to the N95 but having cold feet. I've got a 6680 on which I run TomTOm5 and it runs superbly well.
So, if I get the N95, I can download maps from my pc ( Mac , actually ) and transfer these to the phone?
Secondly, once this is done, and I then use the Sat Nac function, will the journey costs me anything i.e. the phone downlaoding any further data?
I might just not bother with the N95 and go with the SE K810i instead!
Cheers.
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The maps download app is PC-only. Why you need a separate app - and a PC-only app at that - to download the maps is a mystery, and quite ridiculous.
If you have an Intel Mac, you can run Windows (BootCamp or Parallels), but otherwise you will have to rely on someone with a PC to do it for you.
The other bad news is that the Nokia maps are crappy - Route66 or TomTom are vastly superior.
I bought an N95, but ended up buying Route66 and an external Bluetooth GPS receiver to make it work properly.
I believe you can download the maps straight to the phone (wirelessly) without bothering with the Nokia Mapsloader PC application. Of course, this is only likely to be practical over WLAN. I can't imagine anyone is rich or patient enough to do it over 3G.
Once you're up and running, you can easily prevent the Nokia Maps application from downloading any more data, and this doesn't seem to create much of an issue. The only negative effect that I've noticed from doing this is that occasionally it grumbles that it can't connect to the Internet (and I've yet to establish why it wants to).
I've not used TomTom, but I hope it's better than Nokia Maps.
SL
Hi,
superleccy wrote:I believe you can download the maps straight to the phone (wirelessly) without bothering with the Nokia Mapsloader PC application. Of course, this is only likely to be practical over WLAN. I can't imagine anyone is rich or patient enough to do it over 3G.
that is not really the case. You *could* scroll all over the places in the maps app to load the maps on the phone. But I would prefer to use maploader.
Regards,
PM
PMitchell wrote:that is not really the case. You *could* scroll all over the places in the maps app to load the maps on the phone. But I would prefer to use maploader.
Oh cripes, is that how it does it? Eugh that's horrid - sorry I didn't know.
SL
nottmbantam wrote:...
Secondly, once this is done, and I then use the Sat Nac function, will the journey costs me anything i.e. the phone downlaoding any further data?
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As already stated, after downloading maps using either WLAN or MapLoader you can turn the "connect to network" feature off to prevent any downloads from GSM/3G network.
But this will still not make it "free" if you plan to use it for navigation since this feature is an extra service which you have to pay for (one time fee to get a license code valid for a selected period of either; 1w, 1m, 1y or 3y).
I think I've more or less decided that when I get the phone - hopefully next month - I will buy a proper copy of either TomTom 6 or Co-Pilot.
CP can use the internal GPS receiver apparently. Whilst TT cannot - I've been using TT for the last year on my trust Nokia 6680 with an external GPS receiver, and the two of them work perfectly!
I've heard the N95 mapping system is pretty poor in comparison to dedicated systems like TT, CP and R66,