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Nokia N8 Applications for Download

Nokia N8 is Symbian^3 powered mobile phone, which supports running Java Applications as well. In case you are looking forward to download applications on your Nokia N8 mobile, just navigate to inbuilt OVI store which offers free and paid applications for download. Yes there are many other ways to download applications onto your Nokia N8 mobile phone.

The Nokia N8 comes with a small CD containing Nokia OVI suite which can be installed onto your computer to download and install applications from various software download websites which offers mobile applications download. As Nokia N8 supports java, you are not limited to downloading Symbian applications only and you can download compatible java applications as well.

Google Maps is one of the applications which you can download onto your Nokia N8 mobile phone, install it and use it for free. You can even request google to send you the application installer to your mobile number from the google mobile maps website. Google Mobile Maps website asks for your cellphone number and when submitted send you the application installer. Yes you would need internet connectivity to further download and install the google mobile maps application.

In case you have not activated internet onto your Nokia N8 mobile phone, you can connect your mobile phone to your computer, download Symbian or Java Applications onto your computer and ask the Nokia OVI suite to install the application onto your Nokia N8 mobile.

Nokia N8 Price in India

Nokia N8 is one of the best mobiles available to buy in India. Yes it does costs around Rs 23,000/- but can be really worth the money. You can get Nokia N8 mobile from online shops and your local mobile shops as well. Many mobile vendors provide on the spot replacement for any fault found in the mobile within 48 hours of the mobile purchase.

Nokia N8 comes with tons of useful features such as 12 Mega Pixel Camera, 2G & 3G network connectivity. The 12 Mega Pixel camera is the main camera at the back of the mobile with really popwerful flash. Yes there is another secondary camera of 2 Mega Pixel in the front which can be utilised for video conferencing and taking smaller snapshots. The 12 Mega Pixel camera can be used for High Definition video recording as well.

FM Receiver and FM Transmitter built into the Nokia N8 Mobile provides easy and quick ways to listen to FM Radio stations and transmit the audio played in the mobile to a FM Radio at configurable frequency. Bluetooth is also present in the Nokia N8 mobile with which you can transfer audio, video and other files to / from other mobile phones / computers with BlueTooth hardware present.

Integrated GPS functionality in Nokia N8 mobile comes with free ovi maps so that you can find and navigate to your desired route. In case you would like to use google maps with GPS functionality, you can download Google Maps application from inbuilt OVI store. The OVI maps can be used in offline mode as well which means that you can use GPS functionality even when mobile network is not reachable. Assisted GPS (A-GPS) feature is also built into the Nokia N8 mobile which can really speed up GPS locking so that you can start GPS navigation really easily and speedily.

Checking EMail, Browsing web, creating and editing Word and Excel documents can also be done in Nokia N8 mobile. In case you are planning to buy a new mobile, do consider the brilliant Nokia N8 mobile. The Touch screen of Nokia N8 mobile is the main interface of the mobile for interacting with various java and symbian based applications.

Mobile GPS

GPS is short name used for the term Global Positioning System. A Mobile Handset with GPS functionality can be used to track position. GPS hardware in mobile provides physical co-ordinates (in terms of latitude and longitude) to the operating system of the mobile and an appropriate application installed in the mobile displays the latitude and longitude information on map.

In case you do have a GPS mobile handset, all you need is appropriate software and maps of your country to see your current position on maps. There are various companies which provides maps of various countries. Google Maps is one of the well known web based map application providing maps of almost all countries on the earth, OVI Maps is another web based map system, Nokia Maps is another sophisticated map provider for Nokia mobiles, MapMyIndia is another map provider for Indian cities.

TomTom is a physical device popular in UK and European countries specifically made to display current physical location and provide voice assisted map navigation. As TomTom has been made specifically for providing navigation capabilities, it is really sophisticated system providing voice control navigation (such as after 10 yards turn left, make a right turn now, etc).

The GPS functionality is free to use for everybody provided you have the required hardware and appropriate maps of the desired country. In case you have bought / planning to buy a Nokia Mobile with GPS functionality, all you would need is to get the appropriate maps and you are ready to navigate to any place with your maps.