For most of us Indian’s, Maps of places
where we live and visit is like an alien concept. Usually there are hundreds of
lanes, by-lanes and by-by-lanes that exist in the country without getting a
name ever. House No. 24 can be just after House No. 63, while House No. 62 can
be half a mile away. When you ask people for directions, they usually show the
right hand and ask you to go left. But we still manage every time. Such
confusion is a part of our life.
And then I start using the Maps on Nokia
701. For the first time, I came to know that the lane in which my house is,
also has a name. What a discovery! Since the day I have moved to this house, I
have never been to my terrace. For the first time, I was able to see what my
terrace looks like as seen from a satellite thousands of kilometres away.
But the real fun started when we were
travelling to Pune and decided to use Maps since we didn’t know the direction
to that place. As soon as I located the destination, the screen turned into a
3D screen similar to the kind of view I got from my windscreen. Within moments,
some seemingly intelligent lady’s voice started guiding us on the directions.
It would give an indication when we would be at reasonable distance and second
reminder when we would almost reach a turn.
We were so captivated by this lady and
her voice that we started to play the fool with it. If the voice advised ‘Turn
Right’, we would turn left. But, within seconds she would recalculate the route
and start giving directions once again from that new point. We did find the
place we were looking for and also had a lot of fun.
The other thing I wanted to talk about
is the browser on the Nokia 701.
All I wanted from the phone browser was
to provide me with an experience which is similar to that on the computer. And
Nokia 701’s browser does. I was surprised to find that multiple tabs can also
be opened on it and you can conveniently move from one to the other while it
loads. Online payment of bills using internet banking was one thing that I
could never convince myself to try on the phone. However, I had an error free
experience while trying it out on the Nokia 701.
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