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i know n900 will get maps soon if not via next up date then it will be a standalone app upgrade i say month or so.

And how do you know that?

source?

listen dont be silly.

do you think nokia will not make turn by turn for n900?

lol

like nokia wont give n900 meego?

maybe, maybe not. Im not sure and it could take a year, and im not even sure it will be available for n900. I believe it when they announce it.

not because u say so. sorry

Yes! it's a mobile computer not a phone
On every computer I had, I was able to upgrade the OS for years!

Uh! it maybe a phone, in this case you cannot exepct a lot, on most of my past phones I was not able to upgrade/change the firmware, but in that case it's a poor phone.

Mumble.... it may be that it is not a mobile computer ad not a phone? or the answer changes every time you point at its defects!

Just joking a bit (really I Love this device!)

regards

Niko

Hi I have waited and waited ... coming soon.

1. Did anyone betatest this?

2. Same GPS hardware problems/a-gps-requirements as N900 with OVI Maps?

3. If no one can say they did test Sygic Mobile Maps for N900 before it eventually is available , are the potential buyers taking huge risks for top dollars? Pay top dollars to become beta tester?

4. I have a feeling the cost wil be about what you can see the charge for the Android versions. What do you think?

OS is not a good comparison here - all PC's CPU (intel compatible anyway) have very similar instruction sets to make this easier - most newer chips are backward compatible also, this is not so for mobile chips I believe... Plus Nokia do not seem to separate the OS from the Hardware layers (device drivers), if they did this then it would probably make things easier across all devices (1 version of Symbian across all phones and then smaller device driver upgrades which are device dependent)

I certainly hope so Niko but if you look back at the 770 Internet tablet, when they made the n800 and n810 tablets they upgraded the hardware so the new OS (OS2007 and above) was not compatible with the 770 from a hardware/device driver standpoint. Nokia never ported OS2007 to the 770, it was a community driver effort which resulted in the OS2007 Hacker edition - a combination of OS2007 with the hardware layers from OS2006 I believe. This was awesome support from the community but there is no guarantee that the OS will be upgradable on the n900 either due to hardware limitations.

I also love my n900 and hope that the software continues to be upgradable with the latest OS versions.

At this point we bought the devices, we knew what we were buying and now Nokia do not have to do anything except our manufacturers warrany. The fact that they are doing as much as they are so far is great! However they have a lot to learn yet from Android and iPhone software upgrades and their app stores (on the n900 I have no idea how apps I bought from the app store will be upgraded for instance!)

I am looking forward to the Sygic maps application though as I badly want turn by turn but its getting a little annoying that we are almost in March and its still "Coming soon". The original date I got from Sygic was Jan 18th and that came and went... I understand the problem is now the OVI store which is very frustrating as they cannot sell paid content there!

I dont get the big deal, why dont they just release a trial version which has you log onto the web and buy a key for it, each phones IMEI is unique and you could easily tie the license to the IMEI allowing people to buy your product instead of the continual wait...

Come on Nokia please sort out the OVI store soon, either that or Sygic please come up with another way to purchase the app i.e. Dataviz and how they sold the docs to go - I got that soon after release for 1/2 price from their site and they simply supplied a license key to register the product!!!!

Well I tried to hold out for this... unfortunately I needed a sat-nav and could wait no longer.
Sorry Sygic/Nokia you lost a customer/sale.

This could be announced at the cebit, at least sygic is there...

http://twitter.com/SygicOfficial/status/9817678407