GPS and MG MAPS on the Nokia 6275
As many of you know, The Nokia 6275 on Telecom has a real built in GPS.
It’s a series 40 3rd edition with a nice 240 x 320 display and retails for $699.
As for the capabilities of it’s little GPS extra, it was pretty much a basic GPS device with a trip planner and waypoint manager which came in the form of a Java application as the phone is not a Smartphone and thus does support multitasking or other 3rd party applications asides from the standard Java MIDP 2.0
So I loaded up the latest version of MGmaps and behold, it now detects the internal GPS module and uses it for tracking.
I used Yahoo maps, Openstreetmap and MSN maps which all worked well.
I also tried to load Yahoo satellite which functioned until it tracked off the map but this caused an “out of memory” error with the phone (2048 KB limit)
Using it over data will be costly though, You cannot put this phone on a dataplan for internal Java or WAP access so are forced to use casual WAP charging at $1 per 100KB. BUT see below…
But it works, and navigated along very well.
Usage in reality??
Being only a series 40 handset and not a true smartphone, it cannot suspend the Java application and track back the main menu. You cannot do anything asides from answer an incoming call, it sucks the battery dry in an hour so it’s really only useful while in the car attached to a charger, The phone display is very small.