“Nokia 5230” Articles

It is now coming up to the two week mark since the launch of the new version of Ovi Maps for Mobile and Nokia has proudly announced that there has already been over 1.4 million downloads of the application. The one million mark was reached just one week after the launch. According to Anssi, Executive Vice President at Nokia, The download rate is averaging at one download per second. This is a tremendous feat considering that its currently only supported on a limited number of handsets.

Is Ovi Maps for Mobile not compatible with your phone yet? Well, check out this cool video demoing some key features of the new, and now FREE, Ovi Maps for Mobile. Although limited devices are currently supported, compatibility will soon become widespread. Is this the end of standalone Sat-Navs? Thoughts welcome below.

Nokia has today announced plans to release a new version of Ovi Maps for its smartphones that includes high-end walk and drive navigation at no extra cost, available for download at www.nokia.com/maps. This move has the potential to nearly double the size of the current mobile navigation market. The new version of Ovi Maps includes high-end car and pedestrian navigation features, such as turn-by-turn voice guidance for 74 countries, in 46 languages, and traffic information for more than 10 countries, as well as detailed maps for more than 180 countries. Check out the rest of this press release after the break.

The Nokia 5230 has received a new firmware update taking it to v11.0.079. The S60 5th Edition device has a 3.2″ resistive touch screen on a bright nHD 640 x 360 pixels display, a 2 megapixel camera and comes in a wide range of eye-catching colours. New firmware updates generally contain bug fixes and optimizations necessary for other software to perform correctly, therefore we recommend you always keep your device up to date. Check out the rest of the details along with the full changelog after the break.