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“This was written the day of the launch of the N79 and N85 on a beautiful sandy beach in Hurghada, I simply wrote this because I’m fed up with Nokia’s ignorance to this issue.”

Disclaimer: I’ll try to regard this as the last time I rant about this, so please try to relate to the poor suckers that live in Egypt without legal GPS goodness.

Problem: GPS devices are banned in Egypt for no reason at all, that means we don’t get to buy/try/see/touch/feel cool devices like others all over the world.

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Nokia Beta Labs unveiled the new instant messaging client called Nokia Chat  for S60 V3 phones that is not just like any other instant messaging client, it utilizes the built-in GPS receivers and allows an easier choice for consumers to share their location with specific friends or broadcast it to the whole group.

The idea is quiet innovative, though this is already supported by Nokia Maps where the location can be SMSed to anyone having a phone equipped with Nokia Maps.

Though this may seem to be it’s primary function, to share locations, It failed to locate myself during a trial chat with Abul from Adonisdemon.com, I tried to see the satellite status from GPS Data application and it located the exact position, but at the same time, the Nokia chat froze at “Getting Position”, A Huge downside for me, when it comes to instant messaging it does it’s job like any other instant messenger.

It Vibrates when you get an instant message, instead of producing noisy sounds, something that I really like, and it can be accessed directly from contacts application, Also, all the sinning-up is done from the application.

More Info and download links available at Beta Labs website.

Nokia Beta Labs just announced the brand new A-GPS beta application for the N810 that is is supposed to dramatically decrease the GPS lock time.

And as usual, because the project was just announced, the link is totally screwed up :P. so you might have to keep an eye on this URL as it’ll be updated in hours with the download link, and possibly some screenshots.

But it’s a good thing to see Nokia Beta Labs starting to develop applications for the Internet Tables, As far as I know this is the first Tablet-related project announced by the Beta Labs, and it looks like it’s a good start.

That’s all I’ve got now since as I said before the link is not working as the app was just announced, but I shall update this post with more details and screenshots once the website is up.

Updated: It seems that the link is now working, the application is only 4 KBs and requires an Internet Tablet with OS2008 Installed.

for 8.1 Billion dollars , The World Largest mobile phone producer Nokia will buy Navteq digital Map maker , that’s Nokia’s deceleration that her next aim will be the GPS Market , 4 current Nokia Mobile Phones have GPS built-in including the 6110 Navigator which is mainly described as a Navigation Phone , Nokia also released the Maps application “previously known as Smart2go” to the Nokia GPS free Symbian phones including N93i .
unannounced Nokia phone N82 is expected to have GPS according to the XML file on Nokia servers
Very much soon , The unrivaled Global Positioning system will start competing with a more accurate positioning system created by the EU “Galileo” ,
so it is expected in 2012 that Nokia will release it’s first Galelio + GPS Mobile phone “don’t quote me on that”