Nokia Maps - Smart2Go Goes Testing

Nokia Maps - Smart2Go Goes Testing

Martin Sauter is commencing testing Nokia's Smart2Go Service




Part 1. Navigation to close-by (100km) destinations. (available now)
Part 2. Nokia maps as a guide for finding a location in a city while walking (coming soon)
Part 3 Route planning and navigation for destinations 500+ kilometers away more demanding than the task in part 1 (coming soon)

"Most features of Nokia maps can be used for free. The most important ones are certainly the free"

In Summary his site runs through

License and Payment Model:

Pricing:

• Western Europe maps Sat Nav (Routing) for a 30 day period are €10.

• A three year license is €99.

Getting The Maps:

• Download over Wifi direct to the Phone
• Download over the GSM/3G Nework (can be expensive when maps can be 100mb)
• using a PC with the Nokia MapLoader Software (Mac's not supported yet) - Mapperz Recommend - As this is the fastest way to obtain the digital maps bases

Selecting the Destination And CaCalculating A Route:

• using the current GPS location to a known destination
  
• address search bug (now fixed)
• address search takes about 15 seconds
• routing calculation took about one minute

Running Other Applications While Navigating

• occasional navigation speech commands and podcast audio were mixed and played over the speaker simultaneously
• When accepting a call, the mapping application was terminated

Stability

• could still be improved

Available in more detail here

All credit to Martin Sauter for a good round-up of this service.