Can’t live without . . . .

What is it that I can’t live without.

Been thinking about it since a long time. Since this morning, The other option really was to look at the plain ceiling. So, obvious choice.
Anyways, The one thing that kept coming at the top of my list was, my phone. Expected and perfectly normal. Now the reasons.

Using GPS on your cell III : MG Maps On Nokia 5800

Last time I wrote about Mobile GMaps, I promised to write a tutorial. But, haven’t got the time yet. So, here I’ll be posting some of the links that helped get me started. Hope it works for you too.

Link 1: http://gmaps.freewebspace.com/

Though the site provides further links about the things you’ll need to download, I am providing the latest ones here again,

Using GPS on your cell II: Nokia Maps

Its great!!
All you need to do is download the two softwares

1.Map Loader
2.Map Updater

You can download both from the Nokia site. Whats best is you can use the maps offline. No need for a data connection. Saves you money.

The Maps can be downloaded via Map Loader and downloaded to the cell while its connected to the pc in PC Suite mode. The negative is, it seems, it’ll download the entire map of your choice AGAIN and will not just update. Means if you downloaded 65MB map a month back and now its 85MB, it’ll download the entire 85MB again and not the 20MB.

India maps are detailed enoug, if you stick to the major cities and highways. It gets shady as soon as you go into J&K, Himachal, NE, basically off the main highways. For within cities, its adequate.

Has a search address feature too. Yet to use it so cant comment.
The voice guided navigation works like a charm(if you buy it) but is quite dumb, as expected.

More later . . .

Using GPS on your cell

Right, so you now have a GPS enbled cell and want to put it to good use.
There are 3 ways to go about it -

1. Pay up to companies like SatNav, Map My India etc. for the software and maps.
2. Use freeware tools like MGMaps, GMap Maker etc. to build and use your own maps.
3. Use Google Maps, Yahoo Maps and the likes.

But, every coin has two faces.

Where am I headed?? – Figuring out a solution(GPS) – Things get a lot clear

Continuing from my previous two posts, I shortlisted Asus P320, Nokia 5800 and HTC Touch 3G for the final battle. While I could check out the Nokia for some decent duration, the others either were demo pieces or not available altogether!!

For now, 5800 it seems is the only one capable of crossing the finish line unfazed!! The other 2 seem to be falling in pits from time to time!! Keeping my fingers crossed.