IzzehO | # 111 | 2010-08-06, 06:48 | Report

And still no Australian support from what I can tell :'( Ah wellz back to my less than legal version (ripped maps from the version I purchased for Symbian)...

YoDude | # 112 | 2010-08-06, 06:50 | Report

What he^ said only the exact opposite.


This needs work. It sucks down the battery significantly and for the first time that I have ever noticed, my N900 is running hot and warm to touch.

Icons are washed out and the dynamic menus stutter and pause so much I had to turn that feature off.
It still has issues with sound where instructions cause it to freeze up momentarily.

I hope it gets better and I hope this is only affecting mine for whatever reason and not everyone else's.

BTW, I'm running the clock back @ stock configuration.

I'll try it again in the morning.

LordJuanlo | # 113 | 2010-08-06, 06:59 | Report

I finally got it installed, the full European map (1.9 GB). With v9 it installed a program on the PC, it was useful to manage voices and maps. For example, I could install all European countries or just one, or two, or whatever I wanted.

With v10 they have dumped that PC app, now you unpack the program on the N900's internal storage, with all maps. I guess you can remove the maps you don't want manually from the N900 but I have plenty of space so I haven't touched it.

On the phone, interface looks a bit more refined but it feels slow and sluggish. I haven't tried it on the car (it was too late last night when I got it installed). I saw a couple of good things (now screen rotates using the accelerometer, and it runs in full screen), however I couldn't find the GPS status screen.

I will play with it today after work.

d-iivil | # 114 | 2010-08-06, 07:57 | Report

I'll take that back... just cutted me off and had to start all over again.

**** **** ****edi ****.

jsbigs | # 115 | 2010-08-06, 07:57 | Report

Well, I have it installed. No drama there except "clicking" on the .deb file did not work (and yes, I have the latest firmware installed) so had to use the terminal.

Unfortunately, I am not impressed so far. It still locates my office, which is in Berkeley, California, in the middle of Oakland. Granted, Martin Luther King Junior Way is in both cities, but searching the map either by address (where you pick the city) or now by zip code, puts Berkeley in the middle of Oakland. My TomTom got this right four years ago. What's the problem?

Also, Navigate ---> Contacts crashes the app. (Full disclosure: I have 2600 contacts in my phone.)

This is as far as I have gotten so far, but I am not holding out much hope that my other other problems with MM9 have been solved (one, navigation would take me off of the freeway/highway and onto surface streets even though the former was the quickest/shortest/most economic route; and two, navigation would not readjust to the quickest/shortest/most economic route if I deviated from the original route).

I've now had this phone/tablet for eight months. Not happy about the mapping situation.

EDIT: Have since e-mailed support about these two issues.

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Marlon | # 116 | 2010-08-06, 10:48 | Report

Finally got it downloaded, decent speed to!
Not liking what I read above though!

cardiff-blues | # 117 | 2010-08-06, 11:06 | Report

This just posted on sygic download server:

"We are doing maintenance on our servers. We will be back online in a little while."

Watergate | # 118 | 2010-08-06, 13:02 | Report

Download starts around 1 mb/sec and then goes down to 64kb/sec. That sucks! 7 hours to go to download haha

Bratag | # 119 | 2010-08-06, 13:21 | Report

Which would explain why most of the more popular software went to a torrent based distribution system.

F2thaK | # 120 | 2010-08-06, 13:25 | Report

soooo.. UR an aussie???