Nokia 808 PureView (MyBroadband review)

[elvis_presley]

Here's a hint, Nokia can sell their software on the market, and give nokia people free access to it.

And just for flaming, I hate nokia maps, its old as **** and its API does not work with any app I know about, so no use trying it with whatsapp.

Google maps are by leagues better in my area then they're dated software.

O, you probably need to renew your sub every year, but you seem to forget that fact conveniently.

I don't know what's worse about this posting - the grammar or ignorance of facts.

In WP7, Nokia give their navigation app (which is clearly superior to the bundled Android one) for free. There is no yearly fee for it. And you can download entire countries onto your phone and run it 100% without a data connection. If they'd gone with Android, this would have been the model they'd have likely adopted.

Just because you claim to live in an area that AfriGIS (Google) is better than Navteq (Nokia), doesn't change the fact that on the whole, Nokia has a vastly superior mapset to Google. I work with a lot of GIS clients, and the best way to get one to fork out the extra dough for TomTom/Navteq data, is to get them to try the AfriGIS data. It's BAD.

[garry1881]

I live in Durban and here a fact Google maps blankets 4 areas into one name? If I wanna get lost I use it I know Google is no good with maps they have a lot of mess to clean up.

[garry1881]

And no I am not a fanboi of anything

[Fudzy]

I live in Durban and here a fact Google maps blankets 4 areas into one name? If I wanna get lost I use it I know Google is no good with maps they have a lot of mess to clean up.

Which areas?

[Nether]

I don't know what's worse about this posting - the grammar or ignorance of facts.

In WP7, Nokia give their navigation app (which is clearly superior to the bundled Android one) for free. There is no yearly fee for it. And you can download entire countries onto your phone and run it 100% without a data connection. If they'd gone with Android, this would have been the model they'd have likely adopted.

Just because you claim to live in an area that AfriGIS (Google) is better than Navteq (Nokia), doesn't change the fact that on the whole, Nokia has a vastly superior mapset to Google. I work with a lot of GIS clients, and the best way to get one to fork out the extra dough for TomTom/Navteq data, is to get them to try the AfriGIS data. It's BAD.

I thought we we're talking about the PureView, dont see any WP7 software on it, the facts are so ignorant.

And your basing your facts about area from pure speculation, just like I'm doing, that was my point, or do you care to link some proof that shows which are better then the other?

And I dont care anymore about my grammar, not gonna police it just because I dont speak english as my first language.

EDIT: I may have an android phone, but I use the drive and walk software from my old SGS2, its made by Navegon, it was R575. It sucks in comparison to google. And I'm basing all my ranting off my experience with an N80 , then an N95, which had the same navigation software.

[Nether]

Basically what I'm getting at is I used to be a Nokia fan, but they've fallen on hard times and they're out of touch with what the market wants.

I have a better perception in comparison to other phones now, and I wont fall for they're marketing bs again.

Make a phone nokia with better hardware and features, or GTFO.

[arneduppi]

I live in Durban and here a fact Google maps blankets 4 areas into one name? If I wanna get lost I use it I know Google is no good with maps they have a lot of mess to clean up.

You can actually fix it yourself with Google Map Maker or if you are really lazy just report a problem and they will fix it for you.

They actually dropped the charges on their api by 88%. I think Google maps is more up to date.

[akescpt]

Android and Nokia won't work if Nokia use Android they would have to dump their legendary Navteq navigation for Google crappy navigation both Google and Nokia have their own gis services and other services that would conflict each other

google nav is sexy!

[Gathu]

It's good as a free offering, but use the Nokia stuff a while and the difference is very apparent. Google are buying data from cheaper and cheaper vendors, and it shows. My area in Google maps/navigation is littered with errors.

Um, no - Google maps is more accurate than the Nokia one in my area. Google maps have roads in their database in my rural area that are not correct in most other navigation solutions . Main roads in my town are wrong in the same aspects in all the solutions I tried, roads that have been there for decades, plus streetnames that have been changed seven to eight years ago is still not updated in most solutions, but Google got it right. Seems the other solutions, including nokia is the cheap ones, only catering for the main centres.

[elvis_presley]

I thought we we're talking about the PureView, dont see any WP7 software on it, the facts are so ignorant.

We were discussing the likely Android business model, had they gone that way. WP7 (and Symbian for that matter) show what their business model is - give it as a free value-add.

And your basing your facts about area from pure speculation, just like I'm doing, that was my point, or do you care to link some proof that shows which are better then the other?

I work with large GIS data sets for a living, and the proof is in the many unhappy customers I've put onto TomTom/Navteq data to fix up their applications that just plain don't work with substandard data. It's fine if as an individual you get a route off google and it takes you a long way round, or leaves you a street or 2 away, but when you're doing stuff like emergency response or logistics, and do hundreds or thousands of routes a day, it becomes very apparent how bad the data is.

[elvis_presley]

Um, no - Google maps is more accurate than the Nokia one in my area.

Well unless we live in the same area, then that's perfectly possible. But I don't think Evander and Durban are near to each other.

[BeVonk!]

Streetview beats anything anyone else offers. Streetview is amazing when you need to go into unknown territory aand have to do research. Google for me all the way just for that.

Re PureView, I believe it is awesome technology that is a game changer. Nokia is going to make more from this than selling phones. They should go into the digital imaging business because that is where they now excell. Would love this on my Android devices.

[Rocco1]

Getting a bit side tracked with Nokia versus google maps

What about the phone?

I think this is quite a poor biased review by MyBB.

Has anyone bought this phone in SA (Voda has it)? and experiences?
Or is everyone waiting for Win8 on the phone?
Phones only last 1.5-2 years now - I don't think it will be the end of the world buying this phone.

[Fudzy]

Getting a bit side tracked with Nokia versus google maps

What about the phone?

I think this is quite a poor biased review by MyBB.

Has anyone bought this phone in SA (Voda has it)? and experiences?
Or is everyone waiting for Win8 on the phone?
Phones only last 1.5-2 years now - I don't think it will be the end of the world buying this phone.

A Galaxy S2 is arguably a better phone sans camera and you could probably get one with a decent enough point and shoot for less cash monies.