Smart2Go has come a long way after being branded as Nokia Maps. I am not aware of the issues for Windows Mobile, but support for Symbian has vastly improved. Most of the issues I faced when I wrote the post are gone. I use it pretty regularly and it has been working well for me.

I have Windows Mobile version, running on HTC Dash (Excalibur). The application crashes my phone in 80% cases when I try to stop navigation. If I can start it. Program fails to calculate any medium to long trips, and even if it finally gets the route, it periodically starts recalculating it falling into an unlimited loop, even if I stay on the original route! The only way out is to reboot the phone.

Entering the address is a real pain since it does not find anything if you make a single typo or use a shortcut.

Calculated route can be anything but not the fastest route you selected. I was driving accross Norway and Sweden last summer, and this software sent me via dirt roads more then once, ignoring any highways and paved roads.

The only good part of this software is the user interface. It is really clean and nicely designed. Voice prompts are good too. This was a selling point for me. Unfortunately, this is not enough for a navigation software. Disappointed in Nokia. BTW, could not find any support info on Nokia or smart2go site. It must be non-existent.

I have downloaded other files faster before…
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2. Route planning extremely poor. Try comparisons with an internet-based route planner, and for almost any medium to long distance journeys it comes up with a nonsensical route that takes a lot longer than it needs to.

3. NO via point facility! You can only go from A to B, if you want to go via C (to get round it’s pathetic route planning) you can’t

4. If it loses an internet connection temporarily, you get a dialogue box complaining, that you have to OK to clear – not just once but multiple times, needing multiple clearing. Just what you want when you’re driving!

5. Alternative route facility is provided, but this just sends you round a few back streets to avoid the bit of road dead ahead, so that’s not a way of getting a sensible route either.

6. If you buy a navigation license and then change your device, the nokia maps site says to contact Nokia. They then tell you to contact Openbit. Openbit can’t be phoned, only emailed, and they take days to respond, during which time you’re without the navigation that you’ve paid for.

Overall – this software looks pretty, and seems at first impressive, but the more you look into the details, the more you realise that this is a big disappointment and really Nokia have badly let down their customers who’ve paid for navigation with this app. If Nokia had any self-respect they wouldn’t have released this app in such bad shape. And they aren’t offering any info about when they will provide an updatefrom this “beta” version.

The Map Loader is the DEVIL! It should be burned!

Ok now that that’s out of my system, here’s why I feel that way.

After putting my memory card into my card reader, I selected a smallish Map to download…. around 45MB. About 2 Hours later… It finally hung and I had to try again… So try again I did, with the same problem…. This time It reached 100% but never completed.

The worse part about it is that mysteriously, a 45 MB map managed to take up 250 MB on my card… Even removing the incomplete maps was painfully slow (about 30 mins)