You can show your friends where you are on Nokia Maps if they also have Maps on their Nokia phone. The interface is not as pretty as it should be, but it gets it done. Have a lot of friends nearby with the latest Nokia phones? Meeting up is easy. Read the how to.

Steps For The Sender

• Open Nokia Maps and wait until your location is found.
• Press the center key -> send. There are several ways to send locations, but I found multimedia text (mms) the most convenient.
• The MMS will automatically insert the address of your location in the message but you can edit as shown on the image below. Nokia Maps will not be able to display anything using the text alone. The MMS attaches an object/file that your friend needs to open so that Nokia Maps can display your location.

Sending location by MMS on Nokia E71

Steps For The Receiver

• Open the message and select options -> objects.
• Click on the .lmx file to see the address info in text.
• Click options again, then “Show on map” to see the location on Nokia Maps.
• From here, you can choose to navigate by walking or driving to meet up!

Receiving location by MMS on Nokia E71

Recommendation

As a user, I think it would be better if my inbox automatically recognizes the the .lmx file and give the option of showing the location straight from the message. Having to click options -> object -> options -> show on map is a little redundant. I recommend a link at the bottom of message with “Show on map.” That’s one click compared to 4 clicks.

Thanks to Ricky Cadden from Symbian-Guru for helping me out with this topic!