That really works? I've been rocking mobile navigation for a couple years with Ovi Maps (formerly Nokia Maps), and more recently waze. The first is excellent, the latter very promising.
I understand that Ovi Maps is not quite ready for primetime on the N900. Maybe one of the reasons they postponed the launch? K On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 9:10 PM, Mark Haury <wolfm...@gmail.com> wrote: > http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-10384544-265.html?tag=nl.e703 > > Finally, a navigation solution for handhelds that really works. As soon > as T-Mobile comes out with an Android 2.0 phone that I like, it's > sayonara to the piece of crap TomTom I bought a couple of months ago > (I'm on the third unit with a defective battery and am not going to > bother sending this one in - I'll replace the battery myself - but > that's just scratching the surface of all the horrible design problems. > I incorrectly assumed that TomTom had been around long enough to figure > out how to make a gpsr, but I should have stuck with Garmin) as well as > my Nokia tablet that never really did anything well and is now dying an > ugly death due to corrupt and probably failing internal flash memory. > > Maybe this will force the standalone gps manufacturers to bring the map > update prices down to something approaching reasonable. Or even run them > all out of business, which they so richly deserve after all these years > of highway robbery. 95% of the map data they get for free from > governments and other free and public sources, at least 4% of it is > corrections from their own consumers who have paid dearly for maps, and > _maybe_ 1% of it is obtained in-house. And since at least 95% of any > given map update is identical to the old map, it's absurd to assert that > they have any real financial investment in it. It's a racket very like > the printer manufacturers who sell some printers near and sometimes even > below cost, but make such extremely high profit margins on the ink and > toner that they could give the printers away for free and it wouldn't > make any difference. Can you say "at least 6000% profit"?!?!? (Except > the GPS manufacturers are making a very healthy profit on the hardware > as well.) > > Mark > _______________________________________________ > maemo-users mailing list > maemo-users@maemo.org > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users > -- In Vino Veritas http://rubbernecking.info
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