Thread: What's the deal with Ovi and N900?
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2009-09-29 , 22:41
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Originally Posted by sk299 View Post
I may be wrong but some one mentioned that turn by turn navigation is currently not possable because of the lack of DMR on the device. Nokia not allowing navigation licences so people cant share them.
So based on the conversation here it appears that Ovi Maps on Maemo is little more than a port of the browser plug in converted to Linux. So we get the web site functionality on the N900? Disappointing. The performance even on a desktop leaves a lot to be desired so I imagine it will be less than stellar on the N900.

A port of the Symbian client is what I would have expected here with licensing tied to the SIM like it is there. This really takes away from the draw of the device.