GPS
We’d like to discuss navigation in a dedicated chapter. I have no idea where the built-in GPS receiver is inside the phone, but no matter the A-GPS support, it takes quite a lot of time to connect to the necessary amount of satellites. And when it finally connects, it has problems with keeping the connection alive. It disconnected once and then it took about three minutes to reconnect.
If, however, we can deal with this (and I trust the phone that it had problems only at me), then we can choose between two kinds of navigation solutions. We have the good old Google Maps, which doesn’t even need a GPS, as it can locate us on the map through cell info – of course it’s highly inaccurate. If we have some nice connection than Google Maps pinpoints us at our exact location on the map – but of course this will require a web connection, as that’s where the map is downloaded from.
This is no different in the case of Wayfinder 7 either, which is pre-installed on C905. This – currently – doesn’t have a map, the software downloads the digital portrait of the current landscape from the Internet. This means that it costs us some money, I would rather not imagine the fees of using it abroad, and even more Wayfinder has a monthly subscription as well, even though it doesn’t cost as much as Nokia Maps. Those who are more experienced in this matter are probably already screaming in front of the monitor the name of Garmin XT and they are right: this application – that also costs some money, but it has to be paid only once – can be installed on this phone too, as it is available for Java too.
Anyway if we already have Wayfinder, let’s talk about it, as it has an interesting feature, that’s not available on Nokia Maps: it really takes us anywhere. This has only one reason: Wayfinder combines TopMap maps with the TeleAtlas database, so it has a much more extended coverage. In turn, it’s a very basic application, it talks only in English, it has a very schematic view, the options are limited, but what annoyed me the most: it lags. The arrow that represents us on the map, doesn’t have a fluent progress, it moves very much like a slideshow, which might be a problem in case of a navigation software.
Night mode, pay roads, disable ferries, pedestrian and vehicle mode, 2D/3D map (haha, they call it 3D – just like Nokia – when the map is tilted, hooray) and some road info is available, but this is not about traffic, but about the target’s distance and when do we get there, things like this. Not much, I know, but it works, it doesn’t look cool either, but it’s good for what it has to do: takes to our destination.
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