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Their "maps" for the US are half-assed. In Nokia's OTHER map software for the N95 you can select what individual states you'll need and it downloads each one one after the other. The problem is that MANY ISPs are probaby ganking those 600+MB downloads ala Comcast using Sandvine. Of course it's not a problem for Europeans since their ISPs aren't doing that (at least T-Mob in Germany did when I lived there) and their map downloads are smaller.
Nokia needs to get on the ball and in addition to USA-East and USA-West (pick a side, we're at war...) they should allow individual state downloads. I mean, right now I only need Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska (home of Bill Braaaaasky!) so why the hell should I be forced into constant failed downloads of 600+MB of data I don't need?
Also, the more stuff Nokia launches here the more they need to think about putting a state-side server mirror. Remember, almost all our international traffic is being "copied" now to the NSA...

I can't even download the 1MB Singapore map. Something's wrong with their damn servers I guess or they have them "locked down" to prevent people with N800 MAC addresses from downloading from the servers until a set date/time. My conclusion on the new built-in map program?
To hell with it, and the built-in email and RSS feed reader. I swear, for every two steps Nokia makes forward with this thing they take three steps back.
TomTom on my N95 stomps *** over all others to me.
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Last edited by iball; 2007-11-15 at 17:27.