Yesterday's heads up from Google about a local search update left us scratching our heads. It was a redesign of the layout, as well as adding some category support, but fundamentally it was a tweak to the existing local search that's available in any city around the world by punching in http://www.google.com/m/local into your phone's web browser. Still, it got the blogs writing about the product again... read on for my thoughts!
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The difference is I will be able to rely on google's version of this on an S60 phone over nokia's maps which always seems to have problems and crashes randomly whenever I use it on my 5800.
Not saying that maps is horrible, when it works its great but it always seems to have issues as a program ever since the initial release with my old N95.
Nokia Maps does have one distinct advantage: offline use. Few mobile manufacturers seem to realise how handy this is, because I think Nokia's the only company that includes such a feature by default. Open mapping projects are providing a viable alternative for offline use though.
what i dont like about google maps is that, you have to connect to the internet to download maps, and its not cheap... why not having maps saved on the memory card everytime you go online, so that you dont have to connect again to have that same map downloaded again and again.. memry cards now are becoming cheap and thr capacity is getting bigger and bigger..
Symbian OS was an operating system (OS) designed for mobile devices, with associated libraries, user interface, frameworks and reference implementations of common tools, developed by Symbian Ltd. It was a descendant of Psion's EPOC and runs exclusively on ARM processors, although an unreleased x86 port existed.
In 2008 a new, independent non-profit organization called the Symbian Foundation was established and the former Symbian Software Limited was acquired by Nokia. Symbian OS and its associated user interfaces S60, UIQ and MOAP(S) were contributed by their owners to the foundation with the objective of creating the Symbian platform as royalty-free, open source software. The process of publishing the source code under the Eclipse Public License (EPL) was slated for completion in 2010.[2]
The term 'Symbian OS' went out of current use with the advent of the Symbian platform, however the software itself, as described in this entry, did not.
Now-a-days, I am taking the itil practice exams, I am also using mobile phone compatible of Symbian OS;
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@Matt John: Great to see over the top pedantry alive and well 😉
I'm afraid that Matt John is a spam bot copying Wikipedia content according to keywords.
It's a cool app,but it can only work in the google.com,donot support the google.cn.
I love AAS.
cymbi come from China......
Unregistered wrote:The difference is I will be able to rely on google's version of this on an S60 phone over nokia's maps which always seems to have problems and crashes randomly whenever I use it on my 5800.Not saying that maps is horrible, when it works its great but it always seems to have issues as a program ever since the initial release with my old N95.
Nokia maps has never once failed or crashed on my N95, I've used it with all software versions 12 to 31.
Google Maps inability to download and store content locally, or even to cache what has just been viewed is the difference between the two. I just stopped using google maps, it was too much of a pain.
in the post above I should have written "never failed on my 5800" not N95.
They do, but the map data is very different.
I paid for walking navigation on Ovi maps and it's to all intents and purposes it's useless most of the time I want to use it, since it can only navigate streets, and seems to know nothing of footpaths in the UK.
Google maps on the other hand can navigate off-street, but costs money if you don't have unlimited data.
Andy.
[quote="alweekes"]I paid for walking navigation on Ovi maps and it's to all intents and purposes it's useless most of the time I want to use it, since it can only navigate streets, and seems to know nothing of footpaths in the UK.
Google maps on the other hand can navigate off-street, but costs money if you don't have unlimited data.[/quote]
Depending on where in the UK you live, OpenStreetMap (http://www.openstreetmap.org) and one of the free offline routing apps like GpsMid (http://gpsmid.sourceforge.net) might be an alternative. In some areas of the UK (likewise in other countries), OpenStreetMap offers better pedestrian routing than either Google maps or Ovi, but it still varies quite a bit from region to region. On the other hand, as a wiki, you can help improve its map and with the exponential growth, it won't take long before it is better everywhere.