8 posts tagged “n95”

Hi people out there,
now I'm back in Sweden and made some nice screenshots of Navigon MN6 while navigating trough Budapest.

So as you maybe where reading in one of my previous posts, I was on vacation in Romania and now traveling back to Budapest in Hungary. Here I have a screen shot of the Navigon before I was crossing the border to Hungary.

As you see on the next picture, the detail of the map was increasing a lot, when crossing the border to Hungary.

Navigon is writing on there homepage that they homepage, Mobile Navigator 6 has a map coverage of 10% in Romania and 30% in Hungary. I could see this directly when I drove with the car trough towns in Hungary, compared to Romania. The maps for the towns where much more detailed in Hungary. Not only the main roads trough the towns where shown as in Romania.
So my journey took me further to Budapest. As I wrote in my previouse post, I had already saved the addresses where I want to drive to in advance into Navigon MN6. Searching the location with knowing the road-name in Budapest was no problem.
Here a picture while driving on the motorway in Hungary.

Actually I switched the Navigon MN6 off while driving on the motorway because the external cigarret charger was now working on the rental car we had. So to save battery on my N95 I just switched Navigon MN6 on again when we where near Budapest.

Also shown on the screenshot is, that Navigon again shows the allowed maximum speed on the road you are driving on. This nice function was not available on the map in Romania.
In Budapest itself we Navigon look like this, while driving on main roads.

Navigon was showing where patrol stations are, car dealers, hispital and other points of interest. A very nice feature.
The navigation in Budapest was no big problem. Only one problem we have seen several times. Quit often, Navigon said that we should turn left on main roads, where it was not possible to turn left. Ok, it was possible, but according to the signs on the crossroad it was not allowed. So we had to contiue strait ahead or turn right somehow to get to this road. All the time, the way to our planed tagret was re-calculated and somehow we finally got to the place we want.
But it was a bit frustrating. Aways when Navigon MN6 told us "in 700 meters, turn left" we where asking ourself: Will it really be possible to turn left there!?. Everytime when it was possible we where happy! :-)
The most of the screenshots from Navigon MN6 are taking while using the 3D View. I like this most.
But here is one screenshot taking in 2D view.

As you see on the picture, Navigon shows whether it is only possible to drive in one direction on this road or not.
Also it was very usefull to see the real name of the exit sign, when leaving the motorway, as shown on the picture bellow. The green sign with the name. - It's rather impossible to get the wrong exit with this nice function!

There is one more nice feature I want to show you on Navigon MN6.
As you have seen on the screenshots done on my trip trough Hungary, the  maximum allowed speed limit.
In the preferences you can adjust at which speeding the program should warn you. I adjusted Navigon to alert me when I'm driving more then 20km/h to much.
Here the picture when driving within the speed limit.

And here the picture with the sign next the the speed limit sign, when you are driving to fast. Together with the voice alert "Attention!"

Now, my vacation in Romania is nearly over. Tomorrow I'm going to Budapest in Hungary where I will stay at friends for two more days before the flight goes back to Sweden from there.
Today, still in Romania, I'm preparing my N95 with Navigon MobileNavigator 6 for the journey to Budapest. The map detail for Hungary is much better then for Romania.
So I was searching for the adresses in Navigon MN6. See the screenshot from the program while selecting the adress.

I saved the position as a favorit and where then watching the place on the map. Looks like map for Budapest is very detailed. All three entered roads where found and I'm looking forward to see how the navigation in the Hungarian capital will work.

As soon as I have an internet connection again, I will post some results and maybe some more screenshots.

Finally access to the internet again. I use this to post some pictures and news about my trip through Romania.
As I wrote before, the Navigon MN6 is a good program for GPS navigation. Unfortunately it has only about 10% of the roads in Romania on it's Romanian-Map. But anyway, I was quite impressed to see how many roads it knows.

We went by car trough the mountains. Found a nice way (on our paper-map) which we want to try. Ok, when leaving the mainroad, Navigon MN6 didn't know the road we where driving on. (left picture)
Compared to Nokia Maps, which knew the road. (right picture)
But as written in one earlier post, Nokia Maps shows us always driving next to the road. (off-road) Looks like Nokia Maps really has some problems with the Romanian maps because this only is happening here. (at least for me).

So I switched both Navigon and Nokia Maps off and started to use Nokias Sports Tracker instead.
A nice little program which registers a lot of data while driving. You also can use it while walking and cykling. This time we used it in our car. Posting some screen shots here:

And the road got really bad. Up the hill as you see in the screenshots. Also the average speed was not high. At some places we only could drive about 10 km/h. See some pictures of the road here:

But the bad road where forgotten when we arrived at this place with a beautyfull view. :-)

With Sports Tracker you also can export your route at the end so that it can be imported to Google Earth. But it is not possible for me to upload this file here. If anyone would like to see it, just send me an e-mail and I can send the this .kml file.

Finally I just want to add some pictures which I was taking during traveling trough Romania. Mostly I used Navigon MN6 which is visiable on the pictures.
One problem I had in planing routes was that there are not many towns known or places where I want to drive to. While driving on the country roads trough villages, Navigon NM6 often showed nothing then the road. But ok, keep in mind, that it coveres only about 10% of the roads and details on the Romanian Map!! So I'm anyway really pleased with the program.
See here some more pictures.

Since some days, I'm using Navigon MobileNavigator6 on my Nokia N95 while being on vacaton in Hungary.
The map for Hungary is quite ok. Mainroads are included and and especially in towns the GPS is just great! You can search by POI (Points Of Interests) and easiely find Hotels, interesting things to see and so on.
Also the Navigation on the road works very good in general. I like the feature to see the allowed speed on the maps and then the voice "Attention!" if you driver xx km/h faster then allowed. (alert @ speed can be adjusted)

But yesterday the Navigon MobileNavigator 6 took us on very new roads. Ok, I wouldn't call them for roads. More like field-ways!? I don't know. Just see the pictures enclosed.

At least my girlfriend could pick some berries out of the car, while driving on those roads, as you can see on the picture. :-)

Hi,
Today I bought Navigon MobileNavigator6 for my Nokia N95. Nice to know, MobileNavigator6 supports the internal GPS of the Nokia N95.
For compatibility information read on Navigon's homepage.

After downloading the 2715 MB (2,7 GB) large file, I unpacked the .zip file and started the install process.
First, you have to remove your memory card from your N95 and to connect it with an card-reader to your Computer.
Starting the program installation is asking you which language you want to use during the installation. I used Swedish.

Now the installation process can start.

And you are being asked to connect the memory card to your computer.

Once the memory card is entered, the program shows whether Mobile Navigator 6 is already installed or not together with the size of the memory card and remaining free space on it.

As a next step you can select the maps which you want to install. While selecting one map, the program shows you on the Europe-Map and in written letters which countries are included in the selected map-category.

Now, you select the languages which you want to be supported by the program. (Interface and voice guide)
For some languages, only voice in local language is supported. The interface will then be in English.

Hi,

About two weeks ago, I read about Truphone in some Nokia/Symbian Forum on the internet.
Truphone is a small application which you install on your internet and then can call via your Wireless LAN or 3G (UMTS) over the internet instead of using your mobile providers rates.
The great thing is, that calls to landline numbers in about 40 European countries are for free until the 31th of December 2007 according to Truphones homepage. (if you sign up until the 30th of September) And it's true! I tested it. It works great! :-)
Let me write a little bit out this great program for your Symbian device.

The program you can download via your mobiles network connection WLAN, 3G or GPRS.
You are doing this by sending a SMS with the text "install" to the number +44 7624 000 000.
Then you receive an SMS with the link to download the program and to install it. At the same time you get one more SMS with your phone number and login data.
I found on YouTube a video who shows in detail how this whole process is working. Quite easy! Just click on the link and watch.
The installation and first registration was quite easy. No problem for me.

The program itself, can connect via WLAN or 3G to the truphone server in UK. Also the program has a lot if configurations which can be set. For example is it offering to send SMS via the truephone server instead of your GSM prover. You can adjust to use while sending an SMS or predefine one default. I used my GMS provider.
See here some pictures of the adjustment possibilities in the program.

As you see in the second picture, as connection point you can also select your 3G network. Due to the fact that I don't have a data flatrate, I was not testing the program on my 3G network. Only via WLAN. But accoring to Truphones homepage the 3G network is supported as well. So if you are having a 3G contract which includes a data flat-rate you can use truephone where ever you can call with your phone. :-)

I have adjusted the Truephone on "autostart" which means it automatically starts when the defined WLAN network is available. I must say, it works great! As soon as I'm at home, the VoIP sign and the WLAN sign in my N95 is showing on the display.

Now about the calls.
If you are calling, then you go into your contact lists... I was using the "landline-numbers" of my friends in Germany and Sweden and then I just select "InternetCall" instead of normal "VoiceCall".
That's all. Just press the "ok" button and the phone starts to call your contact via the Truephone application installed on your mobile. And you can call for free on many landlines in Europe.

The data transfer during a VoIP call with Truphone is about 3,7 kB/s out and in. (Total about 7,4 kB/s).
One day called a friend for about one hour. The total data transferd during this 1 hour call was about 25 MB.

So I really recommend that you only are using the Truphone at home on your WLAN if you don't have a data flatrate on your 3G contract.

One last comment about the call quality.
Well acutally there is no comment about it, because I couldn't hear any different compared with normal voice calls. Also my friends who I called didn't realized that I called them over the internet. So the voice quality is really impressive!
Install the program and give it a try! Maybe with Truphone it will also be after the 31th of December 2007 free to call landline numbers in 40 countries.
I read in on there homepage that they had this "free call" offer first until the 30th of June this year, but they finally keppt it now until the 31th of December. So lets see what the future will bring.
But the program itself is great! I just love it! It works perfectly and it gives me free landline calls to all of my friends in Germany and Sweden.

Enjoy the world of Truphone!

Regards
Geraner

Hi,

A couple of days ago, I installed TrendMicros Mobile Security for Symbian OS S60 3rd on my Nokia N95.
Due to the fact, that I have a TrendMirco License for Internet Security 2007 on my computer at home, TrendMicro allows me to download and install it's software for mobile devices for free. And I can use it during my regular License period without paying extra for it. I like that idea! :-)

Enclosed you will see some print-screens I took of this program. It includes an Antivirus and Firewall.
I copied an Eicar-Test ZIP file on my memory card. After disconnecting the phone from the computer, TrendMicro Mobile Security detected this "test virus" directly.
Also the firewall is easy to configure, which was necessary to make Music-Streaming working. I just had to look in the firewall log to see which IP adress has been blocked when MusicStreaming over 3G didn't work. Then I configured the firewall to allow traffic from this IP adress and everything was working again. Easy as it has to be!

F-Secure has also an Antivirus and Firewall product for Symbian S60 3rd devices which I didn't tested so much.
Kaspersky is soon comming out with a simular program for Symbian S60 3rd devices.

Today a new firmware for my Nokia N95 was released. No question for me... I had to do the firmware upgrade directly! :-) I whole upgrade-process including downloading took about 15 minutes.

/Geraner