2 posts tagged “sat nav”
I am still excited about having a GPS receiver in my phone. The free Sat Nav amaZe application has been updated to allow use of the N95's internal GPS. I am quite impressed, despite is US feel and accent it will give turn by turn directions to where you want to go. I havent tried the map view yet, and hopefully it didnt cost me a great deal in data costs to try it out in Navigation mode. I'll try it again after 7PM or at the weekend when Orange give me free data. Looking forward to playing with the aerial view. I have Nokia maps installed with the UK map data stored on the memory card. I dont think you can download maps with amaZe but its impressive to have it tell you the wy home. Still in two minds as if I will subscribe to Nokia to get Navigation with Nokia Maps. The fact that I can do it for free is not encouraging me, for now. Anyway amaze is well worth a try, I had to use the Application Manager to tell it only to ask once to access positioning data the first time.
Alas further testing has shown a problem, it will only work for a few minutes before it looses the Sat Signal. The only way to get it going again has been to close and restart the application. I think its a software problem and hope it will be fixed soon. Other apps such a mGmaps and Nokia Maps work fine, but amaZe always looses the signal.
Had been pondering if you could Geocache, a sort of sat nav hide and seek, using the Nokia N95. Usually I would use my Garmin Etrex Legend but indeed you can use the Nokia. With a handheld GPS like the Garmin it will tell you the distance from the entered co-ordinates, down to a few feet. The inbuilt GPS Data tool does this too - but when you get inside 10M it says "Arrived". There is a real oppurtunity for someone to write a geocaching utility here, but in the mean time it works and I bagged two more caches in Croston (UK) using the N95 alone.
