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Free navigation with Ovi Maps on N97 Mini

January 21st, 2010

Its breaking news right now. Ovi Maps will provide free navigation. Its available for download on the N97 Mini right now. But it wont be working on the original N97 (as of now) since a minimum of 20mb is required in the C drive for the ovi maps installer to start working. Original N97’s support will be added in a weeks time. V2.1 firmware release also scheduled for next week ..

Update 1: N97 support from 28th Jan. Thanks @chansearrington
Update 2: You can install Ovi Maps on N97 right now. Not officially supported though.

free navigation n97 mini ovi maps

Some of the features of the new Ovi Maps:

My Position: One click pinpoints your position on the maps. Now with network and A-GPS for precise navigation.

Find Places: Quickly find the places you need nearby, and cities, streets and addresses worldwide, with the new one-box search.

Drive: Free turn-by-turn navigation, with voice and visual guidance in over 70 countries. Includes real time traffic information, lane assistance, speed limit warnings, and automatic rerouting to help you arrive safely and on time.

» More: Free navigation with Ovi Maps on N97 Mini

Wikipedia widget

January 6th, 2010

Theres a new wikipedia widget for your N97 and mini. Its simple but really useful. The formatting is properly done, so you wont have to scroll both ways at the same time. Download link.

N97 Wikipedia Widget
N97 Wikipedia Widget

Quoting Symbian-Guru, “but keep in mind it is an alpha, and might have a few bugs here and there.”

Giveaway: CompassPro for N97 & mini

December 29th, 2009

Update: We have three licenses which we will be giving away. To participate all you need to do is tweet about this contest. Your tweet should have ‘ @nokian97blog ‘. You can tweet more than once.

ps. I was not clear about the commenting thing so many people RTed but didnt comment here. I should have been more clear, but thats okay. Commenting not needed now. Final date of giveaway: 4rth Jan 2010. :)

ThinkChange have another winner with them now. CompassPro. Its a super fun app and actually works to let you know which direction you are heading.

You can have a compass icon always showing on your phone screen, which means you dont need to be in the app to know the direction. The size and display area can be easily configured through settings.

You need to Calibrate the Sensor Compass first. Rotating your phone around all axes in a continuous movement. Just have a look at the screenshots and you will know what i am talking about. :)

Its a paid app and costs $9.95. You can download the trial which lets you use it 5 times. If you would like to buy it, please use our affiliate link. =)

Let us know what you think about this new app.

CompassPro-N97

More screenshots when you click on Read More.
» More: Giveaway: CompassPro for N97 & mini

Google maps update 3.3.1

December 28th, 2009

Our fav Google maps got an update sometime back. Bug fixes and minor improvement. You can download it at m.google.com

Quoting S60 Betalabs:

One of my Dutch visitor reported that- Updated version of Google Maps installed on his Nokia N97- translates all items correctly and recognizes all his former logins.

Google Maps update N97

Testing N97 Battery Part 2

December 24th, 2009

There has been loads of complaints about the N97 battery. Our last post – Nokia N97 Battery – received a lot of comments and so i thought of doing a log of how many hours a fully recharged N97 battery can last. Here are the results.

From 100% to 0% – Total time: 2 days 5 hours [53 hours]

Usage:
Internet: 1 hour 10 mins
Calls: 105 mins
Message(text): 65
Pics with flash on: 10
Video capture: 4 mins
Music with headfone: 1 hour
Various mobile apps: 30 mins

Even though this is relatively lite usage, 2 days plus is very good. Will check how it does with heavy usage and add it here sometime soon. Should be a minimum of 24+ hours.

Some basic tips: » More: Testing N97 Battery Part 2