It's the GPS chipset in the N95 which causes this problem.

As stringfellow mentioned, he bypassed the internal GPS receiver and instead used his Garmin GPS receiver (Garmin GPS10?) which sports the latest SiRF III Star chipset, and was able to obtain a fix very fast.

I'm using Holux GPSlim 240 which also uses the same chipset, and I can get a fix in <30 seconds. Though I'm pairing it with my Dopod 838Pro.

You can quote the posts you wanted to reply to and reply in this thread instead, like what I did.

Depends on the maps used.

Malsingmaps pretty much covers the whole of Peninsula Malaysia, including smaller towns. I use GPS a lot due to the nature of my work which requires extensive travel to new places all the time. It saves me time from referring to a hard copy of the map.

That's pretty expensive.

How about making a trip down to KL if you seriously want the N95?

TomTom and Route66 are good mapping softwares, but too bad they don't have maps for Malaysia.

No cracks discussion are allowed in LYN.

CSL was O'Conors, the ex-authorised distributor of Nokia phones back in the monochrome Nokia phone's days.

Doubt Nokia will give the distributorship to the same bunch of guys again.

But we'll see.

I too read that they're out of the picture since 1st April 2007.

Not sure why is that so.

So there's only 1 authorised distributor for the N95 now?

RM 2,999 for AP and RM 3,199 for Ori?

Thread created by ericchan merged into the Official N95 discussion thread.

The price of S$968 is with contract or without contract?

You should subscribe to maxis's unlimited data package for RM 120 if you're a heavy data user.

I have been using it for a few months now and it really helps me save on data charges.

OK so I've just bought my E61i and am loving every moment of using it.

Though I know this is the N95 thread, but I have some questions pertaining to GPS which I think N95 users would be more familiar with. Coming from a WM5 based GPS background, GPS on Symbian is totally new to me.

So I've downloaded Smart2Go on my E61i. And I also transferred Malaysia's map to my device using Nokia's maploaded which someone posted the download link above. When I tried to plan my route, say for example to 1 Utama from my current location, it asks me to purchase.

My question:

1. Smart2Go is free right?
2. I thought you only pay if you want voice navigation, but still can use to plan route as some N95 users reported. But I find that I am asked to pay even if I want to use it to plan my route only.

Anything I missed somewhere in my installation?

Thanks a lot guys!

Thanks for the quick response.

By navigation module, which one do you mean?

Hmm... but I even failed to plan my route, let alone voice navigation.

Is it because I'm using an E61i paired with Holux GPSlim 240 BT GPS receiver, and not a N95? Having said that, Smart2Go comes pre-installed in the N95?

You've been of great help in your posts! Helped me clear some doubts.

Anyway I'll try it again tomorrow and see how it goes.

Thanks!

Thanks for the introduction to Shozu!

Will toy around with it.

As mentioned above, you only need to pay for voice navigation (which I think is ridiculous).

The free version entitles you to navigate silently.

Sapura, AFAIK is one of the authorised distributor for Nokia phones.

Only difference between them and Avaxx is that Sapura deals with corporate clients only.

Not sure about that, but they're still an authorised distributor for Nokia phones, handling corporate clients.

Maybe when you purchase their phones there will be a warranty card stating it's service centre addresses?

IIANM some forummers bought their sand colour N95 from BB area.