mobile speak has a lot less functionality with maps from what I have seen,
just giving you a heads up
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From: "Ibrahim Gucukoglu" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2010 12:06 PM
To: "Nokia OVI Maps" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Nokia OVI Maps First useful question
Hi.
OK, will download and see, if that fails then I'll do the thing with the
web browser. I'm fairly new to touch and am still getting used to the
qwerks of the handset, in addition I'm learning mobile speak so its quite
a learning curve.
All the best, Ibrahim.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Siavash Bahreini" <[email protected]>
To: "Nokia OVI Maps" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2010 4:01 PM
Subject: Re: Nokia OVI Maps First useful question
it should say free navigation if it is...
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From: "Ibrahim Gucukoglu" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2010 11:58 AM
To: "Nokia OVI Maps" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Nokia OVI Maps First useful question
Hi.
Is this the same Ovi maps version that is available from SW update?
That is on my N97 and N97 mini handsets and its the new application for
managing over the air downloads of updated firmware and Nokia aps.
All the best, Ibrahim.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Siavash Bahreini" <[email protected]>
To: "Nokia OVI Maps" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2010 2:34 PM
Subject: Re: Nokia OVI Maps First useful question
what phone are you using? and did you actually get ovi maps 3.3? I
remember when I used ovi maps 3.1, there were only a few voices to
choose from, but once I update, the choice list jumped to 59...
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From: "Barry G" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2010 10:32 AM
To: "Nokia OVI Maps" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Nokia OVI Maps First useful question
Hi Siavash - thanks for that, it looks really helpful. The only thing
is, under Navigation, Drive guidaance, I only have 50 options, not
53... They are English Surfer Dude, English UK female, English UK Male
and English US Male. I selected English US Male and was invited to
download updated driving info, which I accepted.
The Walk guidance says none and, when I click on it, it says no
data...
Any ideas? I am wondering whether there's a setting somewhere else
that needs to be set/enabled in order to get this as an option?
All the best,
A somewhat perplexed Barry G
----- Original Message -----
From: "Siavash Bahreini" <[email protected]>
To: "Nokia OVI Maps" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2010 2:05 PM
Subject: Re: Nokia OVI Maps First useful question
Step by step instructions on how to download Ovi Maps 3.3 and using
it...
This has been tested using a phone such as Nokia n86, Nokia e72,
Nokia n97, Nokia x6, Nokia 5800, Nokia e55, Nokia e52, and all other
feature pack 2 s60 v3 and s60 v5 phones. The phone must be supported
or the installation won't work. Any Feature pack 1 phones such as
e71, n75, n82, etc can't utilize ovi maps 3.3.
First, using your phone's web browser, navigate to
http://www.nokia.com/maps
Go to the heading of "Mobile navigation for everyone" and find the
link of "Download Ovi Maps with free navigation" which can be found
directly the link of "and much more" under the heading listed.
After that, go to the "Download ovi maps for" heading. Navigate down
twice and you will find the link of "download." select it and the
download of Ovi Maps 3.3 should begin.
Install the program (The program can only be download into the
phone's C: drive so ensure you have enough space on your phone. This
shouldn't be a problem on a phone such as the e72, but phones such as
n86 and n97 tend to have limited C: drive space. Just be aware.).
After the installation is complete. Ovi maps 3.3 should be on your
phone. It will only be listed as "Maps" and there is no other real
way to know what version is being run, but since you have just gone
through the process, you should know you are running ovi maps 3.3. If
you are having problems finding this, it should always be in your
applications menu by default.
Once you find "Maps," select it and you will go into the programs
main menu. There are two features that are easily reached, but for
now I will discuss the settings menu and support feature.
Once you are within "maps" main menu, click the top left select key
which is on all Nokia phones. A menu will open with three choices.
Account (Which is not really very important to anyone of us for the
time being), Settings, and support. If you select settings, there
will be five choices. Internet, navigation, route, map,
synchronization. In internet, you can change the connection ovi maps
uses (This is very important because depending on the phone and
network, you can connect to a network that ovi maps uses to download
relevant information and maps onto your phone for the gps to
utilize.) If you go into navigation, the first choice is drive
guidance. Enter that and the English UK with street names should be
the 15th choice out of 59. The English us with street names is 17 out
of 59. Select one of those and your phone will automatically download
the voice. After that, you can go to walk guidance and the English UK
with street names is 3 out of 10 and the English us with street names
is 4 out of 10. Select it and you will have the voice. After that,
one very important feature that should be set up is home location.
Select it and if the location listed is not your home address, change
it by selecting my position which will automatically choose the
current location you are at and make that your home location, search
allows you to manually input the address you want. Home location is
extremely important because it allows you to use drive or walk from
where ever you are and gives you gps directions with little need to
input anything. The other settings at this point aren't that
important and I won't go into them because they should be pretty self
explanatory and you can decide if you want to tweak them or not.
When you are done doing all the things in the settings menu, you can
go to support. About, legal notices, and feedback is there. The other
two aren't accessible, but feedback is and I recommend you leave
feedback to explain that you want the program to be made fully
accessible for talks users as it will get to nokia and lend us all
attention from nokia and if they are aware of us wanting the
accessibility, they are more likely to actually do it.
After leaving feedback, you can go back to the main menu by pressing
the top right select key. I can't say how many to actually press it
to get back to the main menu, but if you press enough that it leaves
the program, no big deal. Simply relaunch the program and it will
automatically take you back to the main menu and by default, it
always leaves you over the drive option highlighted. If you ever
close "Maps," and relaunch it, it will always leave on Drive
highlighted.
If you wish to get driving directions, then simply press select. Once
that is done, you are always placed on home location highlighted. If
you select that, then it will automatically find your current
location and automatically provide you with voice guided directions
to get home. If you are not looking for your home location, after
selecting drive, simply press right once and you will highlight the
search feature. If you select that, it will take you to an accessible
menu with three choices. The two important ones are history and
search which you can get to by pressing up and down. If you select
history, all the previous searches you made will be listed with how
far you are from that location. If you select one of the history
choices, it will automatically realize your current location and
provide you with voice directions to get to what you chose. If you
select the search feature, you can type in the place or address you
want and once you press select, it will state searching. After a bit,
search results will come up and you have the choice of selecting one.
When you do select one, the gps will automatically find your location
and provide you with relevant voice directions to get to your
destination.
From the main menu, since drive is always highlighted by default,
going right once will leave you highlighting the walk feature. This
is almost exactly the same as if you were using the drive feature.
Once selecting walk, it will leave you highlighting home location
which you can select to get to your home address. Going right once
will leave you highlighting search and selecting that will leave you
in the accessible menu with history and search.
If you ever get lost, do not worry. Closing the program and
restarting will always leave you highlighting drive and this should
be able to reorient you. All the other features that are accessible
should be self explanatory and with not too much practice, you should
gain a level of familiarity with the program despite its quirks. If
you are searching for a specific location and the results come up as
not found, don't fret, simply research and the results you want will
show up. For some reason, ovi maps doesn't always find the search
results the first time. I don't know why this is, but Nokia will
probably fix it with the next release. If there are any further
questions, feel free in asking and also feel free in editing this or
adding whatever relevant information you have found. Hope this helps.
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From: "Onj" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2010 4:59 AM
To: "Nokia OVI Maps" <[email protected]>
Subject: Nokia OVI Maps First useful question
Good good. So it seems to be working, and I have set up list
archives to be archived over at
www.mail-archive.com.
What I really want to know is, what exactly does one do when they
load maps for the first time? Talks doesn't say much. I made it
tell me that I was at my destination in 100 meters but that was
about it. Pure accident, I think.
Any ideas?
I could ask the wife but she's busy most of the time. If someone
has a good definitive answer that would be great.
Much thanks in advance.
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