Nokia Free Navigation Ad - N900 confirmed?
 

So I was cleaning up my living room and I see this Nokia ad on the back of a paper with the N900. Navigation confirmed?

http://files.me.com/sadfist/3symar

At first I thought it was sleazy and just had a picture of the N900 and the text didn't include the device. But as you can see it says N900 pretty clearly on there. Pretty cool huh! I got excited! Then I flipped the paper over...

http://files.me.com/sadfist/a0xqad

Think this is an advertisement or a story in the paper (the Onion is a fake news paper)?

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It better be a real advertisement! :mad:

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Maps lifetime license just isn't in the roadmap for Nokia, so until we geat official confirmation... would be strange that they would bloop something like that into a magazine ad :/

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Small print from maps.nokia.com (no mention of N900 or maemo there). :mad:

Free navigation is for the lifetime of the phone. Downloading of maps over-the-air may involve transferring large amounts of data. Your service provider may charge for the data transmission. The availability of particular products, services and features may vary by region. Please check with your local Nokia dealer for further details and availability of language options. These specifications are subject to change without notice.

EDIT: Hehe, so from maps.nokia.com if you go to Maps support and select N900 it says you're good to go! Oh but then in the how-to if you scroll down to the bottom you can see an entry for Maps for N900 which details it's limited functionality.

Big mess!

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Thank god for chores!

ps: easy tear beef look really gross.

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even though 'The Onion' is a satirical magazine, the advertising is real. Why would this not be real, has it been officially confirmed that navigation is not coming?

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@cjp I am sorry but have you been living on Earth in 2010? Because Nokia already has free Turn-by-turn navigation on a lot of the Symbian phones... But we do need it for Maemo... So if you meant about every nokia phone then you need to check it out because there's free navigation... But if you meant Maemo only.. then please do accept my appologies..

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Oh, boy. Nokia might have hell to pay for putting the N900 on that ad. You see, "navigation" to the Average Joe/Jane would consist of requirements like this:

• The Nokia N900 shall contain navigation aid software.
• The navigation aid software shall be entitled "Ovi Maps."

We then break down the requirements into sub-requirements:

• Ovi Maps shall calculate route information to direct the user to his/her selected destination.
• Ovi Maps shall recalculate route information upon a deviation from the route.
• Ovi Maps shall provide visual cues to remind the user of upcoming directions.
• Ovi Maps hall provide audio cues to remind the user of upcoming directions.

To anybody with an actual requirements engineering background, that list is actually vague, but you get the essence. Also, these people are not going to be as forgiving as some of us here are when the "requirements" I listed are not satisfied. I would not be surprised if someone gets angry enough to lawyer up. The minimum consequence, though, is that Nokia loses another customer.

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I don't think this is an official Nokia ad. Looks like a cell providers ad. Just a mistake.

EDIT: Make that an "authorized distributor" of Nokia phones

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Would a distributor even be allowed to generate their own marketing material like this? It looks Nokia supplied.

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the ad actually says "voice guided navigation" which we dont have, and i doubt nokia official press department would be foolish enough to make that mistake or so blatantly reveal an imminent update. looks retailer made. sadly. :(

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marketing is marketing and wrong by definition. i remember having seen n900 ads telling me about mms and video calls...

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And 1 GiB of RAM, and more than 16bpp colors on the screen, and...

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There was definitely a lot of talk (including here, despite how adamantly people will now state that it was never going to be implemented) about MMS being provided in a future update, along with limited portrait support. Let's not get into that whole debacle again, lol.

Anyways I emailed Nokia to get some info about this ad. Hopefully I'll get an response from a person.

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Got a pretty canned answer: