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Nokia E71 and E66 get Ovi Maps free navigation

49 replies · 18,964 views · Started 06 April 2010

Unregistered wrote:Unofficially the E66 downloand version apparently works on the N95s and N82. I also read that unofficially the 6210 Navi works with the download version of the 6720.. anyone have more concrete infos on it?

Eh? Doesn't work on my phones. The installer gives a 'No access' error. Anyone know what's going on here?

Yep, doesn't work for me on my N95 either. The installer gives me the same "no access' error. Prob to good to be true for it to really work!

To the moaners: the E66 version works on the N95 and N82.

The application works but the free navigation doesn't. It still asks for a license.

slitchfield wrote:Eh? Doesn't work on my phones. The installer gives a 'No access' error. Anyone know what's going on here?

I read that @symbian freak, I'm not sure either but i'll try it on my old 6210 Navi

Maybe the version needs to be cracked and signed?

Unregistered wrote:I read that @symbian freak, I'm not sure either but i'll try it on my old 6210 Navi

Maybe the version needs to be cracked and signed?


mine does not work on the e71 also message error to install.
Even message not compatible.
So a wrong version on the ovisite!!!!

Tatunkhamon wrote:Hi buster,

thanks for the info, good to know - I will do the same. 😊

May I ask what version did you purchase, and do you know what is missing, compared to the newer devices? The main thing I have been missing (currently) is the voice guidance while driving, hopefully that is covered in the paid version. And even if not, �10 is basically nothing. 😊

- T

What I have tested is the voice navigation for driving, which works fine. I'm not sure if the pedestrian navigation is also included, as I haven't tried it...

"I have found a huuuuuge ignorant mistake in Ovi Maps 3.03 update! There is no way to search for an address!!! Yes there is the search bar but if you don't know the correct spelling of the address you're screwed!"

Just type the first letters of the address you know and press GO, you will see all scroll down options.
Enterning part of a streetname followed by "," followed by city name gives you all scroll down options in that city. Haven't tried other options, but seems to work fine for me. Good luck.

Unregistered wrote:"I have found a huuuuuge ignorant mistake in Ovi Maps 3.03 update! There is no way to search for an address!!! Yes there is the search bar but if you don't know the correct spelling of the address you're screwed!"

Just type the first letters of the address you know and press GO, you will see all scroll down options.
Enterning part of a streetname followed by "," followed by city name gives you all scroll down options in that city. Haven't tried other options, but seems to work fine for me. Good luck.

i know what you mean and it does ok if you're looking in your city, but if you want to type an address in another city there is no way to go by 1.country 2. city 3. street. 4. Nr. Nokia just went ahead and removed that feature.

It should give you an option after pressing 'Drive' > 'Set destination' then ADDRESS!!! They clearly just forgot that! A Navigation DEVICE that can't look up an ADDRESS!! GREAT!!!

Unregistered wrote:i know what you mean and it does ok if you're looking in your city, but if you want to type an address in another city there is no way to go by 1.country 2. city 3. street. 4. Nr. Nokia just went ahead and removed that feature.

It should give you an option after pressing 'Drive' > 'Set destination' then ADDRESS!!! They clearly just forgot that! A Navigation DEVICE that can't look up an ADDRESS!! GREAT!!!

What? It does work.

In fact I just tested it. I am currently in London and I just inserted a random address in Edinburgh to test, and Ovi Maps found it just fine.

Just type:

house no, street name, city and Ovi Maps will do the rest

User posted image

This new search field is far more efficient than the old multiple fields version.

No one complains when Google uses the same method, but then again this is Nokia. I heard it is pretty trendy to mock them.

Captain Jon wrote:What? It does work.

In fact I just tested it. I am currently in London and I just inserted a random address in Edinburgh to test, and Ovi Maps found it just fine.

Just type:

house no, street name, city and Ovi Maps will do the rest

User posted image

This new search field is far more efficient than the old multiple fields version.

No one complains when Google uses the same method, but then again this is Nokia. I heard it is pretty trendy to mock them.

just because google screwed up you dont need to copy them, and google maps does not have the navigation option so it's not comparable! they can keep the search bar i'm not against it but in 'set destination' they still need to put back the 'Address' field otherwise there is no logic behind it if you want to navigate somewhere and it doesn't give you a proper field to put in the address.

The whole new maps UI is messed up, the default screen in maps should be the maps with the location where you are not the menu screen. Nokia does not have logic behind UI set up. Everyone in the whole world knows by now that Nokia's UI sucks and even though they know this they go ahead and carry their messed up UI from their touch version of Symbian into their non-touch version, it was fine how it was before they just needed to make the navigation free, the Maps UI was better before.

N82 is the best camera phone of nokia, and still is! I have been a loyal nokia user for 12 years now. This will be my last nokia.

I also just paid 10 euros for the driving navigation, but that's OK. Could be worse - there could be another 10 to pay in a year. My democratic nature is glad that it's now free for everyone.

A couple of things I've noticed so far:
Map Loader works on a Mac now!! Wonderful.

Ovi Maps doesn't save previous search locations like the older version did. So I have to re-enter the info. Why did they get rid of "History"????

Unregistered wrote:they can keep the search bar i'm not against it but in 'set destination' they still need to put back the 'Address' field otherwise there is no logic behind it if you want to navigate somewhere and it doesn't give you a proper field to put in the address.

There is an address field... It is a called search!

Before I navigate somewhere, I go to:

Drive -> Set destination -> Search

Type address, result pops up, select address

Starts driving.

Fred* wrote:
Ovi Maps doesn't save previous search locations like the older version did. So I have to re-enter the info. Why did they get rid of "History"????

Walk/Drive -> Set destination -> History

It is missing from the 'Find places' which I do admit is pretty annoying

Will this ever be available for N78? I am anxiously waiting since January...Nokia, please listen....

Unregistered wrote:There is an address field... It is a called search!

Before I navigate somewhere, I go to:

Drive -> Set destination -> Search

Type address, result pops up, select address

Starts driving.

Walk/Drive -> Set destination -> History

It is missing from the 'Find places' which I do admit is pretty annoying

that's not good enough, it's not logical that i have to press search if i want to enter an address. plus the problem with search is that it does not guess the street name based on the first two letters of the word like it would before. the one who changed that is the dumbest navigation software developer on the planet, great he's in charge of nokias navigation devision.

Unregistered wrote:that's not good enough, it's not logical that i have to press search if i want to enter an address. .

I do not understand why you would consider it illogical. How is it any different to typing the address in a multiple search field?

plus the problem with search is that it does not guess the street name based on the first two letters of the word like it would before.

Uhm no.

Just an example here: I am planning to travel to Lewes Road, Brighton. I type in: le brighton in the search field.

It suggested a list of addresses beginning with 'Le' in Brighton which includes:

Lewes Road, Brighton
Leanhurst Court Road, Brighton
Leybourne Road, Brighton
Leybourne Close, Brighton
St Leonards Road, Brighton

Pretty good guessing to me...

This works the same as previous versions except in the previous version you are required to complete two fields to get the same results.

Again, how is this method any different from typing the address in a multiple search field?

Seems like the E71 and E66 versions are exactly same file, downloaded and tried to install both of them on my hacked N95. It's complaining about that it's not supported.

Works but...

- it'll either say the directions OR beep, but not both; I need both if I'm going to be chatting in the car and listening for directions
- weak search capabilities, better hang onto GoogleMaps
- poor/questionable traffic updates

It's a wonderful novelty otherwise. Amazing they've squeezed this much onto the E71!

Free navigation should be on there in the first place, I was annoyed that I had to pay for the feature but I am glad that my phone now lets me do this for free