Nokia N95 Built-In GPS?

Question

Nokia N95 GPS

It has a built-in GPS, but it's not free. Does anyone know how much is the cost for the GPS? Do they charge you only when you use it? or you pay a certain amount monthly to use it? Thanks!

Answer 1

probly 300 dollas at most..

Answer 2

GPS is the piece of hardware inside the phone which calculates your current latitude and longitude. The cost for this is part of your nokia handset and does not require any extra payment.

To make use of the calculated co-rdinates, you need to have a mapping software installed, so that it can show you where you are on the map. Nokia 95 comes with a pre-installed nokia maps application which can do this. You can either download the maps on your PC (using Nokia maps loader) or access it over GPRS/3G .

Nokia maps is free as long as you dont want voice enabled navigation support. If you want that you need to go for a monthly/yearly plan.

Answer 3

First the positioning technology:

GPS - free

AGPS - some data cost

Network Based - some data cost

N95 can use all/any of them and you can enable/disable the technology to be used. (Tools -> Settings -> General -> Positioning)

Then the maps:

Nokia Maps (built in) - can download free maps as needed from a server (data costs) or you can download maps for free using a PC application and then decided whether to enable downloads within the app (recommended, low data costs) or disable it completely (no data costs but using only downloaded maps which might not be up-to-date any more).

3rd Party maps app: Garmin, Tom Tom, Route66, Wayfinder - quite expensive, come with the maps pre-installed but would also require some updates (thus data costs). Not all the above apps have versions that can use the internal GPS.

Premium services:

Nokia Maps provides additional services, like turn-by-turn navigation and city guides. For this features you will have to pay a license (multiple options and charging schemes including premium SMS based).

Answer 4

it is free... at least its free on my n95-3.. you just need a map application... google tom tom n95