News | January 22nd, 2010

Nokia N900 to feature Ovi Maps 3.03

Nokia N900 to feature Ovi Maps 3.03Yesterday’s announcement that Ovi Maps will feature free navigation as standard will have been welcomed by Nokia fans with open arms, but as yet Ovi Maps 3.03 is only supported on 10 handsets. The biggest worry was for Nokia N900 owners, with no support for Maemo 5 devices. This is set to change, however. Read on to find out more…

When the latest version of Ovi Maps – v3.03 – was released yesterday, all the supporting phones were Symbian-based, such as the Nokia N97 Mini and the Nokia 5800. If you have a Nokia N900, which runs the Maemo 5 operating system, then Ovi Maps 3.03 won’t run on your handset.

Check out our Nokia N900 review

Thankfully for many users, Nokia is rolling out support for its other models in the next few weeks, with Maemo 5 set to be among them. The Executive Vice President of Nokia, Anssi Vanjoki, pointed out that “certainly moving forward it [Ovi Maps] will support Maemo”.

This will certainly appeal to Nokia N900 users, as with no official support for a Google Maps application on Maemo, users wanting directions don’t have many alternatives other than paying for the premium services offered on older versions of Ovi Maps.

Check back here to find out when Ovi Maps 3.03 will be available for your Nokia N900, as we’ll be updating you in the next few weeks.

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raggit said on January 22nd, 2010

there as never ever been a paid version ov ovi maps on maemo.
the version of ovi maps is very basic with voice navigation.
its just a map with routing with limited features.
for maemo to get a version of voice guided free maps it will have to be built from ground up

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raggit said on January 22nd, 2010

that was meant to say no voice navigation feature and no premium content at all as ever been on maemo

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Northerner said on January 22nd, 2010

Not true. Nokia VP quote from Engadget:
“N900 owners shouldn’t hold their breath, though, as Nokia is focusing on bringing its free navigation service to the next generation of Maemo devices. That’s not to say that the N900 won’t get it eventually, only that it’s not currently on the roadmap.”

Note the words “next generation” and “don’t hold your breath”. Nokia aren’t interested in supporting the N900.

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raggit said on January 22nd, 2010

that article by engadget was written before the event started b/c i read it.
so how could they quote him?

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Mikey Bee said on January 23rd, 2010

Nokia at their event in London for Ovi Maps stated that the Nokia N900 would be getting support. We can only report what Nokia tell us.

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Hamood said on January 30th, 2010

People started giving up and i seen used N-900 on shelves .Nokia has to remember this , the only reason i bought N-900 is that I Thought This would be better than PDAs (I am a PDA user). I dont realy like nokia but maemo was somthing very close to PDA i had .with no navigation soft on maemo platform and free doc editor ,

Now i am thinking to buy HD2 and sale the ***** nokia

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