Must-Have App: Maps Booster by Skyhook Wireless
My Nokia phones need to find my position accurately and quickly since I use location services like geotagging photos, checking-in on Foursquare, or navigating with Ovi maps. Fortunately there’s a revolutionary app called Maps Booster that helps your Symbian phone find your location really fast no matter what other applications need it. That’s right… I said revolutionary. If you don’t believe me, watch Steve Jobs explain the awesome technology behind the app.
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Maps Booster is powered by Skyhook Wireless and implemented as a positioning method on Symbian. They’ve driven around the world to map out Wifi hotspots (similar to how Google drives around with cameras for Street View). When your phone opens an application like Maps, Gravity, or Camera that tries to find your location, Maps Booster runs in the background to compare the Wifi signals near you with their database to pinpoint where you are. That means, they can find your location quickly even if you’re indoors! Here’s their coverage map.
I’m really happy with Maps Booster and it works perfectly on the Symbian phones I’ve tested: Nokia N86 and Nokia n97 mini. I hope it gets built-in with all upcoming devices. It’s available at the Ovi Store for $2.99. It’s well worth it!
David Yeh on 9 March 2010:
b.s. another app i can't but through ovi store because it's not available in canada, but the app covers canada. dumb, dumb dumb
Mark Guim on 9 March 2010:
whoa really? that's not cool.
Lloyd on 17 March 2010:
I just finished my review of the E75 at http://wp.me/pOhA7-8X for WOMWorld Nokia and one of the items I listed as a consideration for buying the phone was the speed of getting a GPS signal. I also went on to say that once I installed Maps Booster the E75 went from a 2 minute connection time to 2 – 3 seconds! It is definitely a must have app and Nokia should include it by default on future Symbian powered devices.
erfizyo on 18 March 2010:
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Reinhard on 2 April 2010:
David, the Ovi store has a restriction on distributing paid content in Canada. Please send me an email and I should be able to help you out.
Mobile Phone Signal Booster on 7 April 2010:
Yes, It's all right. I’m use Nokia n97 mini with maps booster.
Android Game on 4 May 2010:
oh this topic… david, the store ovi has no restrictions on the distribution of paid content in canada. please, send me a letter and i should be able to help you out. nice to visit your site. Wish you post another good topic like this. I will wait to read it.
useful on 6 May 2010:
I love Maps Booster ,he is powered by Skyhook Wireless and implemented as a positioning method on Symbian
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brak on 17 May 2010:
This app is no good when wifi devices move locations, as they are wont to do. The office building near me apparently moved some hotspots around, because whenever I go near it, MapsBooster always puts me on the wrong side of the building. Without MapsBooster, the GPS works reasonably flawlessly, despite the buildings. Worse yet, my home router moved about five miles across town, but it is in the database for this silly app. Hence, whenever MapsBooster is active, it thinks that I am somewhere else. There are a couple of other hot spots on my walking path that have similar issues, so my Endomondo routes looked like origami designs until I disabled MapsBooster.
Not recommended.
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Smthcierra on 8 June 2010:
It’s well worth it!
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Laennio on 5 August 2010:
Very good!
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my home router moved about five miles across town, but it is in the database for this silly app. Hence, whenever MapsBooster is active, it thinks that I am somewhere else.
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MapsBooster always puts me on the wrong side of the building. Without MapsBooster, the GPS works reasonably flawlessly, despite the buildings. Worse yet, my home router moved about five miles across town, but it is in the database for this silly app. Hence, whenever MapsBooster is active,