With all the excitement surrounding the announcement of the N810 model release, some tablet owners may have missed the tidbit about the upcoming OS2008 being installable on the N800. This page on the Nokia site describing the features of OS2008 release seems to promise a hefty bonus in the new OS package: "In-built Map application including maps and Points of Interest".
While we all eagerly await the release of OS2008 to discover the details of this promising statement, it certainly makes me wonder what's going to happen to sales of the $200
Nokia NAVKIT Navigation Kit for N800 Internet Tablet. Especially with outstanding stand-alone bluetooth GPS receivers available for $50 or less from these guys.
While I've been quite impressed with Maemo Mapper, the current version does lack a key convenience of the pre-packaged solution: built-in maps and points of interest. The maps are downloadable on-the-fly from Google (with legal caveats) and other sources . But pre-loading maps for offline use is a bit awkward and pre-loading POI data is all but impossible.
If Nokia makes good on this OS2008 feature list, it'll be a great day for N800 owners but the NAVKIT and Maemo Mapper may both end up as casualties.
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