Nokia 808 PureView (MyBroadband review)

Nice review, would have been made better if...

A) it went into detail about the phone software.

B) it had comparison camera shots with other leading phones

C) clicking on the image showed the original image as it came off the phone.

Just suggestions, use 'em; don't use 'em :)
 
The Nokia looks really nice in my opinion, the one thing that kind of weighs down this phone is Symbian. I bet Nokia phones would be even better if they started using Android.
 
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
 
Yeah what's wrong with Google Nvigation? That Streetview at destination feature works very well IMO, especially when trying to find businesses that don't have street numbers shown.
 
Nokia are expected to announce their new WP8 phones on 5th September. We're expecting to see a WP8 version of this. I'm expecting to add one to my xmas list :)

A Pureview WP8 device will be awesome.
 
Fudzy said:
Yeah what's wrong with Google Nvigation? That Streetview at destination feature works very well IMO, especially when trying to find businesses that don't have street numbers shown.
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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.
 
elvis_presley said:
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.
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Interesting, can you point me in the direction of more info on this?
 
Viva said:
Interesting, can you point me in the direction of more info on this?
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Copyright notices on the bottom of the maps. For example, it used to be TeleAtlas/TomTom (the gold standard in mapping) for South Africa, but now it's AfriGIS (infamous in mapping circles for being substandard data). This is just an example, and they've done it quite a lot all over the world. If you'd taken notice of the copyright notices on Google maps a year ago, it'd almost all have said TomTom/TeleAtlas, but now they only use that when they can't find a cheap alternative source. They're also building up their own map set from their street car data, but that's REALLY awful - if you search you'll find blogs of people ranting about it.

Google maps is running at a massive loss, and they're under pressure to monetize it. Every few months they make their free API more restrictive and kick more freeloaders off, and I know more than a few people that run large sites who have got mails from Google saying pay up or find another map source. And Google API paid maps are NOT cheap.
 
elvis_presley said:
Copyright notices on the bottom of the maps. For example, it used to be TeleAtlas/TomTom (the gold standard in mapping) for South Africa, but now it's AfriGIS (infamous in mapping circles for being substandard data). This is just an example, and they've done it quite a lot all over the world. If you'd taken notice of the copyright notices on Google maps a year ago, it'd almost all have said TomTom/TeleAtlas, but now they only use that when they can't find a cheap alternative source. They're also building up their own map set from their street car data, but that's REALLY awful - if you search you'll find blogs of people ranting about it.

Google maps is running at a massive loss, and they're under pressure to monetize it. Every few months they make their free API more restrictive and kick more freeloaders off, and I know more than a few people that run large sites who have got mails from Google saying pay up or find another map source. And Google API paid maps are NOT cheap.
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Thanks! I'll be on the lookout from now on.
 
garry1881 said:
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
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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.
 
Nether said:
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.
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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 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.
 
elvis_presley said:
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.
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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.
 
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