A-GPS for N810 archived from Beta Labs

Thu, 2009-04-02 06:48

Continuing the spring cleaning... A-GPS for N810 has been archived from Beta Labs.

There are no plans to develop this any further as standalone feature, but we left it available: you can continue using it "as is", with no guarantees and no customer care.

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#1: 2009-04-02 @ 08:25

I appreciate the efforts of you folks, but do tell me: does this mark the beginning of the end of the Internet Tablet platform for Nokia?

#2: 2009-04-02 @ 09:25

> does this mark the beginning of the end of the Internet Tablet platform for Nokia?

Good heavens, no.

#3: 2009-04-02 @ 14:17

> Good heavens, no.

It's just so striking that so many tablet-related services disappear... starting from the end of the Internet Call Invitation Beta in 2007, the Video Center Service Catalogue (which was taken down for the tablet version before the whole site became unavailable)... and only a few days ago the Internet Tablet Video Converter.

Whatever reasons there are (and there may one very good reason for the A-GPS application), it just looks very disappointing for an average tablet user like me. The timing could have been better at least for A-GPS and the video converter. ;)

#4: 2009-04-02 @ 16:52

Ok, got your point... I'm paying a special visit to Maemo folks tomorrow - stay tuned :-)

#5: 2009-04-06 @ 18:37

"does this mark the beginning of the end of the Internet Tablet platform for Nokia?"

Thomas, it's more likely that it marks the beginning of the end for supporting the N810. It never did GPS too well, and I say that as a N810 owner. Other Nokia devices could get a lock pretty quickly, but the N810 sometimes can't get a lock at all, even when you're outside on a sunny day.

Nokia's probably concentrating on the upcoming Maemo hardware rather than dealing with the legacy N800/N810 hardware, which dates back to early 2007 internally.