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Originally Posted by Flandry View Post
http://maemo.nokia.com/n900/


I beg to differ. I'm sorry, but this point on the N900 advertising page was a large reason for my initial interest and is still inaccurate. It's false advertising. Ok, technically there's nothing completely false about that: it's just a huge exaggeration, and fails to mention that "oh, by Ovi Maps, we mean a broken, half-assed version of the program known as Ovi Maps on other phones."

Generally Maemo 5 and the N900 is a good product, but this is one area where "Fixed in Harmattan" is simply not acceptable to me unless Harmattan is coming to the N900.
Couldn't agree more!! GPS navigation was also a decisive feature for me to choose N900 since I was used to it on N95, and it is Nokia's obligation as a supplier to deliver what is declared on the product features. The client is not responsible for extensively research if the official statement "Ovi Maps and A-GPS included" actually is a very deficient GPS app compared to Ovi Maps 3 on Symbian.

At least regarding Ovi Maps, seems it was included intentionally before it was ready, just because GPS navigation is now a must-have feature for most phone consumers, and that would be a total lack of respect for clients...
 

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