Major update for Nokia Maps 3.0 with Ovi Maps

Firstly, Nokia Maps team would like to thank those who have provided feedback, bugs, blog entries, suggestions and surveys over the last few months - This has been extremely helpful in enhancing and “fine tuning” the product – so please keep them coming in! :-) We do review all of your suggestions and where possible we look for opportunities to build them into the product.

Now to the exciting stuff….the Nokia Maps Team is pleased to announce an updated release of Maps 3.0^Beta. One of the eagerly awaited news is that this updated version now supports S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1 devices and N96!

In addition to this, there are also some new features/enhancements to the previous release:

• Start-up sequence takes you to your current position as soon as position is found. If your position is not found in few seconds, you are taken to last known position
• You can rotate the map, so you can for example view 3D landmarks from all directions. Just press 4 and 6 in map view. Pressing 5 takes you back to 'north up' view
• In 3D view mode, you can tilt the view by pressing 2 and 8
• 2D/3D mode works with all map modes, i.e. with Map/Satellite/Terrain
• My Favourites menu is cleaned up and History list is moved higher in menu
• My Places has option "Point me to" for any saved place/landmark, you the direction to that place on the map
• In addition to the synchronisation of Favourites and Collections with ^{Ovi maps Beta} and vice versa (use in online mode, enable Internet connection), you can now plan routings on Ovi ^Beta and synchronise to your device
• Finally, many bugs have now been fixed

Maps 3.0^Beta works with all Nokia devices based on:
S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1 (E71, E66, 6110 Navigator, N95, N95 8GB, N82)
S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2 (N96, N85, N79, 6650, 6210 Navigator, 6220 Classic, N78)