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Nokia N900
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i actually didn't like the turn by turn navigation on my n97 at all, i just ended up using the 'point me to' option most of the time as the talky turny yoke was really annoying most of the time.
i actually really like the n900 navigation, it gives you the essentials (i.e. the basic route and your current position) to help you get to where you are going without being too intrusive.
it would be good if it could do route re-calculations on the fly, but with the map there and your 'proposed' route from start to finish on-screen, it's usually just a matter or guiding yourself and occasionally glancing at the GPS to find your way which suits me fine.
the thing i liked the most (apart from angry birds!) was dragging and dropping divx video's to the phone and playing them back natively without worrying about transcoding them into some random format the phone can play. it's the first phone i've had that can do that without any problems for pretty much any file i've tried on it.
i'm very tempted to try overclocking it now too. i don't want to be the only one on the thread with a stock clock speed. 0 -
i actually didn't like the turn by turn navigation on my n97 at all, i just ended up using the 'point me to' option most of the time as the talky turny yoke was really annoying most of the time.
i actually really like the n900 navigation, it gives you the essentials (i.e. the basic route and your current position) to help you get to where you are going without being too intrusive.
it would be good if it could do route re-calculations on the fly, but with the map there and your 'proposed' route from start to finish on-screen, it's usually just a matter or guiding yourself and occasionally glancing at the GPS to find your way which suits me fine.
the thing i liked the most (apart from angry birds!) was dragging and dropping divx video's to the phone and playing them back natively without worrying about transcoding them into some random format the phone can play. it's the first phone i've had that can do that without any problems for pretty much any file i've tried on it.
i'm very tempted to try overclocking it now too. i don't want to be the only one on the thread with a stock clock speed.
For me the built in navigation is useful if you are stuck - I used it on holidays in a rental car and it did help at times but compared to Ovi Maps on the 5800 I would estimate it cost us about 5-6 hours of extra driving on a 1 week holiday in Germany and caused quite a bit of extra stress. The biggest PITA with the built-in version was that you cannot search for a destination without a data connection so it ends up costing quite a bit even if you have the maps preloaded.
There is a paid option that gives excellent turn by turn navigation called Sygic Mobile Maps. It really does work well and is as good as the latest Symbian Ovi Maps based on my experience with v9. There is a new version out (v10) which apparently is even better, obviously cost it the downside and if you assume you will only have the phone for say 2 years, 60 euro for Europe actually works out pretty expensive. Apparently there is a free trial on Ovi.0 -
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