Re: Sygic announces world-wide turn-by-turn navigation for Maemo
 

This has devolved to another thread with new posters *****ing about the N900 not matching their expectations. Come on people, enough is enough. If some feature was not on the specifications and no one officially announced it will be available don't buy a device thinking it will subsequently magically appear.

Now, for the ones testing out the Sygic solution, how good is the search feature? Does it support OTA updates or even server-side content search for POI?

Re: Sygic announces world-wide turn-by-turn navigation for Maemo
 

N900 is the best phone what Nokia have now. I bought it because I know that is superb phone and it's going to evolve. But common people don't want to wait if something is going to happen or not, they rather going to buy worse alternative with better package for daily use. Approach based on hope is definitely not the way how to make a business.
Nokia obviously doesn't follow expectations of buyers and again losing ground (deja vu N97).

Here is people's voice.

Re: Sygic announces world-wide turn-by-turn navigation for Maemo
 

Not to get in to the fray again but the N900 is NOT Nokia's best phone. The high-end S60 based devices are much better smartphones than the N900 and a cursory glance at the specifications and feature sets will show that quite clearly.

As for that Engadget post, well, funny that even though that site was crying that Symbian is dead, its marketshare INCREASED the last quarter. People's voice, eh? What US-based blogs report is not necessarily the reality of the situation.

In any event, I won't derail this thread by having this argument, it is pointless.

Back to my question: how good is the search feature? Does it support OTA updates or even server-side content search for POI?

Re: Sygic announces world-wide turn-by-turn navigation for Maemo
 

I don't share the same opinion about hardware specifications, but do about present features.


Maybe you would find some answers on YouTube's reviews like this one.

Re: Sygic announces world-wide turn-by-turn navigation for Maemo
 

That is the iPhone version of Sygic. Does not help when trying to find out about the N900 version, which is why I asked this here as some here on the forum have been using the prerelease version.

Re: Sygic announces world-wide turn-by-turn navigation for Maemo
 

Katarina, could you confirm the date Sygic submitted the GA version to Nokia?

As you said it is in their hands now, and there were rumors that Sygic had submitted the SW at 14th Jan but then found last minute bugs to correct.

Re: Sygic announces world-wide turn-by-turn navigation for Maemo
 

I tried to use Ovi Maps the other night while driving... little rough to say the least.

Come on Sygic & Nokia.... money's burning a hole in my pocket! :D

Re: Sygic announces world-wide turn-by-turn navigation for Maemo
 

there are so much variable if one likes to predict when and how we'll get a better navigation...
ovi store payment problems, possible agreement with the telcos to solve this problem, need of promoting symbian, maemo 6 as milestone, launch of ovi maps 3, previous sygic agreement, navteq-teleatlas, sygic last minute bugs, nokia silence, hype factor...

i give up. i sit here on the river side and wait...

Re: Sygic announces world-wide turn-by-turn navigation for Maemo
 

Hey,

I just noticed today that on the webshop of Sygic you can actually choose 'Europe' or 'US'. Up until yesterday you could only choose individual (groups of) countries, or US West or East.

This seems to confirm what Katarina said.

Still with the 'Coming soon'-label, so no purchasing yet unfortunately.

Re: Sygic announces world-wide turn-by-turn navigation for Maemo
 

At least third companies like Sygic are paying some attention to the customer request on this forum, since Nokia doesn't seem to be listening complains, from this forum and also discussions.nokia.com...