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#101
Originally Posted by stegzee View Post
finally got map loader to work with N900, i have 3 laptops with vista and an old tower system stuck in the back of cupboard with winxp plugged it in and worked great with n900 i now have the new mapsinstalled on my n900 with voice and turn by turn navigation.
Turn by Turn Navigation wold have to be supported by the app itself. Do you have a different version than the rest of the world??
 
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#102
How on earth did you get voice navigation? Are you reading out the directions and imagining the phone is speaking it out?

Originally Posted by stegzee View Post
finally got map loader to work with N900, i have 3 laptops with vista and an old tower system stuck in the back of cupboard with winxp plugged it in and worked great with n900 i now have the new mapsinstalled on my n900 with voice and turn by turn navigation.
 
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#103
Originally Posted by Brank View Post
Anyone else noticed that when you send a email with ovi mail, it will attach a signature saying:

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Ovi Mail: Create an account directly from your phone
http://mail.ovi.com

And I didn't find a setting to put it off, unless the way to put it off would be to turn signature on, which is pretty dumb to begin with. If signature is disabled, there should not be nothing there.

I even tryed enabling signature and leaving it blank, yet it still attaches the nokia signature. Somehow feels very low. Atleast Gmail just pops up a note "invite user to gmail" or something like that. Nokias way just seems desperate.
I asked customer care about the advert, stating how unprofessional it would look in business use for example, abd this is the responce I got:

Hello!

That is pitty , but this advertaising you can not disable.It is coming automatically with you email, send it out to some one.
So , thats why you dont find it to disable , due that is not possible.

Thanks again to contacting us and all the best,
Nokia Care
Stuff like this is where Nokia keeps shooting itself in the leg time and time again. I guess they think it's better to have a lot of accounts registered that are not used than the opposite..
 
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#104
itsx FREE. besides, what do you think your yahoo/hotmail/msn acconts do, unless yoou paym thier service?
 
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#105
...and Gmail doesn't. Just because some of the original webmail providers do it doesn't mean Nokia should.
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#106
What language is that Nokia Care emailer speaking..
 
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#107
Okay sorry guys but I have to vent a little about an user experience with the Ovi Store on the N900:

I read a tweet in the fabulous browser of my N900 that the first Live Wallpaper has gone online in the Ovi Store. I immediately direct my browser in the general direction of the Ovi Store and the mobile version of the Ovi Store opens.

Now If I look in my browser (MicroB) settings, I have the plugin for that "One time log-in into Ovi only" enabled, but yet I see that the language of the store is incorrect, which means that I'm currently not logged in. I like to keep my language English, because generally foreign made services (even ones from Nokia) tend to make more sense in English than my native language Finnish. So once I log into the Ovi services, the language becomes English. This way I'm certain that I'm logged in, since logging in and out of the Ovi services regardless of the device I'm using is always a hassle. I log in to Ovi Share and then direct my browser to Ovi Mail, and I still have to log in again for Ovi Mail, for example. For who knows what reason, the N900 Ovi store is a weird mobile optimized page, eventhough this device supports Flash, Ajax, has a near (very old) desktop PC resolution and yet we're faced with this page that looks like it was designed for S60 5th Ed. devices.

Back to this particular experience on my N900: Now there's no intuitive way in which to log in to Ovi from what I'm seeing, nor can I be absolutely certain that the apps it is listing for me are for the N900. Past experiences have shown me that usually when Ovi Store opens up, whatever I see is no where near compatible with my N900. So I try to log in by pressing "Account" (or "Tili" as it is in my region language = Finnish), and I get to fill in my username and password.

Great! I feel like I'm getting there! Only bad thing is, that this was the way to get to change my account details, which is of course definitely not what I'm trying to do here. Instead, I'm trying to use the Ovi store the way it is intended - to easily download an app. What's even worse is, that from the "Account" page there's no way to go back besides filling in passwords etc., forcing me to tip-toe around the areas concerning changing my password. So let's think about this, I'm here to download an app, and for some reason I'm faced with the option to change my password. How off can this be?

Okay, in reality, I of course have learned that pressing the image of "Ovi Beta" in the top gets me back, and so I do that. But first couple of times around, I couldn't be sure that my log-in would count if I basically "go back" by pressing the Ovi image.

So now the toll is: I'm logged in, it knows my device for sure and I'm ready to search for the live wall paper. Past experiences have taught me, that if I don't remember the name of the app I'm looking for precisely, it often means that I'm offered some anime backgrounds instead of the app I'm really looking for. So I decide to scroll through everything under "Personalisation" manually. This means waiting for 3-4 pages of applistings to load and since I'm doing this over 3G, it's not exactly lightning fast although I have a very good max speed data package.

This particular time I'm looking for "Gas- Balls", and the search with the words "Gasballs" or "Gas Balls" didn't yield the correct result for me. Now I'm a so called "power user" since I have the N900, so obviously I figured out to only search with "gas", but what does your average user do on the Symbian side of Ovi store? What search phrases will he use? Well it doesn't matter, he might get it right, but from the get-go odds are against him about 2 to 3.

I finally get to downloading "Gas- Balls" and as my device stutters a little, the download is thrown into the "Downloads" sub-program (correct word?) of the browser. Working out of sight, once the download is complete, the App Manager jumps up from seemingly nowhere, and I can finally install"Gas- Balls".

Is this really the way it is meant to work? When will the Ovi Store be imporved not only for Maemo devices, but other Nokia platforms as well? I also have the 5800XM, and I can't say that the experience is much different, besides the fact of course that the Ovi Store actually has some worthwhile content for that device.

Experiences like the ones I've described above are exactly the reason why I will be very hesitant to buy anything from the Ovi store, as I don't want to even risk that my investment would somehow support this terrible "service". If I don't get served at a restaurant, I walk out. If I don't get served at Ovi... well you can guess the rest.

Please, Nokia. Help me like Ovi.
 
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#108
Store needs to be an app. It can still be based on MicroB; but should also have more app like behavior and be optmized for the N900 screen size and resolution

Maps needs massive improvement to bring it up to date with the Symbian with voice turn-by-turn and all that, if not beyond (contacts integration and online sync, etc)

Last edited by Uxi; 2010-08-31 at 02:54.
 
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#109
how hard is it for a large company like Nokia to make a website/webstore that works?? honestly.......
 
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#110
Originally Posted by f2thak View Post
how hard is it for a large company like Nokia to make a website/webstore that works?? honestly.......
It works pretty darn well on Symbian. They just don't really care about Maemo. We are just niche customers, nothing worth loosing sleep over.
 
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