Tom Tom GPS – New Zealand – App Review

Recently I added to Tom Tom GPS (New Zealand Edition) application to my iPhone and I thought that I would write a small review on the application and show our readers what its like to use.

Some of the things I found really handy were that:

• The app’s Points of Interest (POI as described in applications) was great, giving the ability for the user to see either on the map, or within the menu allowing you to not only find the nearest motel, hotel, petrol station, supermarket or pharmacy but also it has an option (A green icon to the right) allowing you to call them with easy access. It also allows you to quickly change your route.

• The maps are all bundelled into the application meaning that you don’t use any mobile broadband usage.

• TomTom has a range of iPhone vent mounts that allow you to mount the iPhone onto your dashboard, apparently this has been quite controversial in regards to New Zealand’s new “No cellphone use while driving law” as it does sometimes require you to press a few buttons.

• The app is easy to use, although at times it didn’t have exact locations of where I wanted to go as long as I knew what road/Street/ect that the location was on it seemed to be ok.

A few things I didn’t like about the application as a whole:

• Someones it seems to put me off going to the right and off the road having to recalculate the location again, which even though it only took a few seconds sometimes was annoying when coming up to intersections.

• It didn’t always have the road/street I was looking for in the search option. But yet the road would appear on the GPS when I was there.

• I don’t know if this is a carrier fault, or how the GPS runs but even when I was in full reception I would have gaps where I had “No GPS reception” yet the Maps app on my iPhone could pick up my location fine.

Overall the App is worth the $99 (I think thats what it’s worth) and I would well recommend it over a normal GPS as its ultra portable,  definatley worth the money that you pay for it, you have no need to buy more equipment and cables to add to your car while driving and also with the avaliblity of the mounts for iPhone it is by far the best option for a portable on the go navigational system.

If you need anymore help please dont hesitate to comment or talk to me on twitter (@damnELECTRIC)

Tane – AGeniusBlog.com

Windows 3.1 Running on Nokia N95

Hey Visitors and Members at AGeniusBlog.com

I was stumbling across websites for my phone to download stuff, and arrived on a website showing how to install Windows 3.1 on your mobile
Unlike the lack of support, due to the instructions being in polish, I managed to install Windows 3.1 on my N95 with hours of googling, yet no help.
So I decided to post my very own tutorial on how to do so!

• I don’t wana remove Symbian off my phone!

LOL you don’t have to! This runs only when you open dosbox, and you can exit anytime!

• What Exactly Happens?

Windows is run by DosBox s60, an MS-DOS emulator for Symbian ,and Camila is used during the process

• Why “Windows” on my N95?

It’s the experience of having Windows on your phone, that will be the envy of your friends!
You can run various programs eg. paint, clock, calculator, task manager, freecell etc
It’s another reason why the N95 rocks!

• Who made this?

Bill Gates! lol. Well no one really made this (besides the dosbox team)
but there was one Polish man who thought of the idea of it and Tried it on his phone.
His release was at: http://www.frazpc.pl/b/232621

• Any Defects/side effects?

Well there are a few, as Windows 3.1 was meant for a 640×480 screen, we are trying to run it on a 320×240 screen, which causes alot of pixel loss.

• How can I fix that?

although I haven’t bothered, I have heard if you go to the dosbox.conf, you would find the variable:

oversize=shrink
change it to:
oversize=page

• Any Pics?

Here they are:

(from my phone, used screenshot app)

You can see what it says easily, but you can’t
really on your phone, due to lost pixels

xD lol my phone didn’t have enough RAM for 2 programs to run at once, without going to task manager! lol
As you can see, there are alot of missing pixels, for instanse, “s” looks like a “x” on the program.

Here are the original pics:

• Ok, so where can I download this?

Here:

http://rapidshare.com/files/203242126/win3.1_on_s60v3.part1.rar

http://rapidshare.com/files/203293268/win3.1_on_s60v3.part2.rar

Password: huseyin

• How do I Install this?

As I mentioned before, Install dosbox (included in rar archive)

1. Unpack ‘DOSBox_s60.rar’ archive to your Memory Card Just open the RAR with winrar, install dosbox with Nokia PC Suite
2. Install all dependencies (located in the “install” directory of the dosbox file)
3. Try to install DOSBox_Full.sisx
4. If it says:  ‘Not enough memory’ install ‘DOSBox_Slim.sisx’ and replace previous version.
5. Unpack ‘Win3.1-on-s60_v1.1.rar’ archive to your Memory Card.

Remember to use the “Data transfer mode” not PC Suite mode, and it will read “removable disk” on My computer and unpack to e:\data

Top 7 Symbian Software For your S60 Phone

Hey everyone at AGeniusBlog.com

Well if you have a Symbian phone, like me, I highly recommend you to get this on your phone…

1. Fring

Fring is a free mobile voip software. If you have Skype, MSN, Facebook, AIM, Yahoo, Twitter, etc you would love this program!

What’s also awesome about this, is that you can call on your symbian phone to skype members for free (besides data rates)

2. Opera Mini

Well this program is not really symbian, but it’s an awesome program to get it if you haven’t got it.

Opera mini gives you a whole new browsing expreience straight to your phone!!! View the features Here

3. Screen Snap

This is a cool program if you would like to take screenshots on your phone..

This program works effectively on the N95. You can capture screenshots and save it to a file in JPEG, BMP, PNG or MBM format.

4. Internet Radio

The application supports SHOUTcast streaming audio playback. Currently, MP3 and AAC+ streams are supported. The application also supports local playback of audio files in the following formats: MP3, AAC, eAAC+, MP4, M4A, WMA, 3GPP, AMR, and WAV. Note that some formats may not be supported on some S60 products.

5. Symella

Symella is a Gnutella file-sharing client for Symbian smartphones

In other words,  Symella is basically like Limewire on your phone

6. Winrar

Winrar is basically a Zip archiver for your phone, you can zip files, add passwords, etc

7. Sports Tracker

Well this program only works for GPS enabled phones, Namely Nokia N95

An awesome app to have if you haven’t already got it.

Gphone, Is it for real?

Hey Everyone at AGeniusBlog
I was reading a pc mag, and found an article of the Gphone vs iPhone.

I couldn’t open it as it was in a store plus it was sealed, so I researched it on the Internet.
It seems like it might be a rumor, as there are very different degsigns.

Here are some articles to sum up your research:

http://www.last100.com/

http://www.sizlopedia.com/

http://www.techcrunch.com/