Nokia N95 - get lost

Sarah on Warrior has just got a Nokia N95 mobile phone and she's 'besotted' with it.

Sarah, well, don't rely on the GPS navigation, that's all I can say.  I've got an N95, and it's been a disappointment to me, not least for its GPS.  This has a battery life of about an hour, and in rural areas it can get you lost, then take you all around the houses to return from where you set off.

Here are some map snapshots of the out-of-the-way places it's taken me.  In each case, I'm not joking, it cussedly avoids the straight route, and in one case (No.2) actually wanting me to drive away from the direction I wanted, cross a t-junction instead of turning left, and then going right round the neighbourhood and returning to exactly the place I set off, before going on my way again.   

And I have to say I get a bit fed up when I hear the sexy lady say:

At the next roundabout ... [silence]

or, when coming out of a roundabout:

Follow the course of the road for a while ... [just in case I was thinking of driving straight into the hedge] 

Not to mention the ten or 15 minutes it can sometimes take to get a GPS signal, or the fact that about one-third of the long cross-country routes I ask for it fail. 

Still, it allows me to read my Google mail when I'm afloat, and Google Maps for Mobiles works much better at the routefinding than the Nokia's native routefinding.  Although Google maps doesn't connect to the GPS, so it can't navigate for you.

I can't wait to get Canalplan for my mobile phone though.

Comments

[Alan]

I have one of these N95 flibeddyjibs. If you like your phone to periodically switch off in the middle of a call, run out of battery after about 5 minutes of using any of the features or make your voice impossible to hear to the caller then this is certainly the phone for you. If you like simple functionality and useful features then perhaps you might consider that 'cooling off period'. I gave up trying to get the GPS and Wi-fi to work after a couple of days of unrelenting frustration. Truly a heap of dingo's doo-doo

[Sarah]

Well, I wouldn't know where to start using GPS to be honest so it probably won't be much of a loss to me. While my sense of direction is legendarily bad, it is a cruel slander to suggest that I can't read a map ... I just can't relate it to reality. Anyway, now I can read Granny Buttons on the train and that's all that matters. You must excuse me now, I have to go and polish my phone.

[diLin]

Andrew it's just your phone's way of showing you that it's bored sitting around the house all day doing nothing..must've been bored the poor chap!

P.S: If you update your phone with the new firmware(v20) I'm sure it will set things right.

regards,

diLin - http://s603rd.blogspot.com