Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Nokia Drive, Cost-Effective Offline Navigation Application

Navigation applications will certainly be more useful if it can be used offline. That is, can be used to indicate the direction despite not having a network or Internet connection.
Well, this time okezone will try one of the navigation solution Nokia Lumia and does not rely on an internet connection, the Nokia Drive which is an application GPS turn by turn navigation free from Nokia. Navigation solution is one of the popular applications on smartphones Lumia.
Legal tested these navigation applications using version 3 Nokia Drive. As the name suggests, Nokia Drive, this application can show direction while driving.
Display and settingOne of the major advantages is the Nokia Drive navigation can be used without any network connection or internet. So users can still use the application with offline and will certainly save costs.
Before using Nokia Drive offline, users are required to download a map of the area. Nokia provides a map for the African region, the Americas, Asia, Australia / Oceania, and Europe. Users can download a map of Indonesia in the option "Manage maps" and choose the "Asia" and "Indonesia".
Map of Indonesia downloaded before will take the storage memory of 156 MB. After downloading the map and want to use Nokia Drive offline, then the user must ensure the "connection" is spot offline. To activate the offline mode, from the menu button on the right, select "settings" then "connection".
Disclosed Product Manager Nokia Anvid Erdian, for Indonesia, Nokia maps already reached 456,940 KM road. There was also support voice navigation of men and women in a variety of languages.
From the interface, the Nokia Drive appear quite simple and not confusing. On the main screen, there is an image map and navigation information such as km / h and a menu.
Then there is also the "+" and "-" to zoom in and zoom out the map. When used, these applications perform in both portrait and landscape.
PerformanceAfter downloading the map and activate the offline mode, the Nokia Drive still be used, even if there is no SIM card. In addition, the maps in this application also has two views namely 2D and 3D.
Given its function as driving directions while driving, then prior to traveling, the user must search the areas to be addressed. How, users can select "Set destination" from the options menu, and search for the destination.
After the search results appear, there will be a choice of "drive to", the user can click on it, then select "start" and could start the journey in the direction shown.
Unfortunately, Nokia Drive often show the main route to the destination. In fact, sometimes, the distance indicated a further and take longer. Even so, when the user takes a different path to that suggested, then this application will still be able to tell the other lines that are passable.
In addition, users do not need to make the process of finding a destination location repeatedly. Users can enter a location often addressed in a favorites list. After that, from the favorites list, the user can select "pin to start" to make a map of that location on the home screen phones.



Apart from offline navigation capabilities, the Nokia Drive not only shows the path impassable, but also provide other information. Along the way, the application also provides information about the gas station and the railway station with the image icon.
Although it can be a smart navigation guide which saves cost, Nokia Drive still like other mobile phone navigation system. Sometimes when you're showing the path or to determine the user's position, Nokia Drive can not be used because of a sudden lost the GPS signal and will appear caption "Lost in GPS".
But usually, "Lost in GPS" only occurs approximately a few minutes, so users do not need to be too concerned.
Overall, the Nokia Drive could be an option useful GPS navigation application when traveling. Because, in addition to the use of simple, of course with offline capabilities to be able to save costs because it does not need to use digoroh pulses or cost data.

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