Google Maps on the Nokia N800
May 18th, 2007
I finally got my Nokia N800 today. I was amazed at how easily it connected to the internet with WiFi and with my mobile phone. One thing I found useful so far was being able to access Google Maps on the run. It’s a little small on the screen, but I found it useable, and it sure would be nice if you were lost somewhere (because I know you wouldn’t stop and ask for directions).
I captured this short screencast of the N800 in action using Google Maps. The video was captured using VNC on the N800 along with Chicken of the VNC and iShowU on my Mac, so there was some overhead in both processing power and network speed that caused the video to be slightly jerkier than it usually is. The AJAX maps also rendered slower when running VNC and you see a funny looking cursor instead of the regular N800 cursor … but as far as I know, using VNC is the only way to capture video from the N800.
Alternative download: Quicktime version
If you want more than just google maps on your N800, you could try the new Nokia Navigation Kit for the N800
May 25th, 2007 at 5:32 pm
[...] Jim, from the Starry hope blog, has got his hands on an N800 and has put a video up demonstrating how Google Maps works on the device. Whilst it can’t give you your exact GPS location without the GPS receiver, you can log on, on the move and get directions. Jump over to see and comment. [...]
May 29th, 2007 at 8:50 am
[...] Jim, from the Starry hope blog, has got his hands on an N800 and has put a video up demonstrating how Google Maps works on the device. Whilst it can’t give you your exact GPS location without the GPS receiver, you can log on, on the move and get directions. Jump over to see and comment. [...]