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To celebrate the official launch of Nokia Maps 2.0 which has just come out of beta, here comes another fun website from Nokia: The Mapsters, which launches tomorrow, 23rd May. From left to right: Maptor, Kiano and 2.0 The new interactive website allows you to take control one of the creatures and create a map of Paris, Tokyo or London. With info and downloads about Nokia Maps 2.0 and not to mention stunning visuals this is again another fun creation from the guys at ... Read More

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If there is one thing that your Nseries handset loves more than anything - it is cool new software apps to install on it. luckily there have been some great releases in the last few months for your handset. Best of all they can be downloaded for free. Here they are in no particular order: 1 . QIK - Stream live video fast to the world. Right from your phone. We have all shot video using our Nseries handsets and uploaded ... Read More

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Google have announced an exciting new update to the already fantastic Google Maps for Mobile application called My Location. The new feature allows you to pinpoint roughly where you are using nearby mobile phone masts (much like A-GPS does for Nokia Maps) meaning that you don't need to have a GPS-enabled phone. Of course the result is not exact but gives you an idea of your location down to approx 1000m, which is a pretty darn good place to start from ... Read More

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I love my N95 and it's built-in GPS, and since the recent upgrade to version 1.0 it has been so much snappier at getting a fix (thanks to A-GPS). All was hunky-dory until yesterday when I opened the app in my back garden and after a couple of seconds it had a lock. Not recognising the street that the application had targeted, I zoomed out only to my amazement that it had a fix on a location somewhere on the outskirts of ... Read More

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Google have updated their range of supported handsets for their very popular Google Mobile Maps (GMM) to include the N95. Not a great deal of difference to other Nseries versions, although you will notice that the app finally has a proper-sized icon as apposed to those small Java icons for inferior lower-res screens ;-) One thing to note is that they haven't addressed the location of the softkeys when the view is changed to landscape. To download, point your phones web browser to ... Read More

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A little later than planned, the free mapping application announced by Nokia at the end of the last week has finally gone live and is available from Mobile Search & Maps. Download you copy now before the server crashes! Read More

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Nokia today announced that it is making its smart2go mapping and navigation platform, available for free download (www.smart2go.com), enabling millions of people to use the most comprehensive map coverage offered on a mobile device. The platform allows for mapping and routing in over 150 countries and has support for full turn-by-turn satellite navigation in over 30 countries. The application allows people to view where they are on a map, search for points-of-interests (POI) around them and create routes to get them there ... Read More