NokiaNav – Picnics with Ovi Maps

The excitement and adventure behind NokiaNav (read my previous post) continues…

Something I haven’t mentioned before, is that along side the black box I found in the boot of the DB9, was a beautiful picnic basket.

AS you can there was a little note attached to the basket (WOMWorld/Nokia love there little notes), which said the following:

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A strange challenge you might think to yourself, but I can see why they thought this might be cool.

Firstly in case you hadn’t noticed I have DB9 which means I’m probably going to do loads of driving to find just the right spot. Secondly I have an n97mini with Ovi Maps free voice navigation on it.

So before I tell you about my crazy and exciting picnic adventures let me tell more about Ovi Maps Free Navigation.

Nokia has recently entered the world of satnav’s and how better to do it than to simple through some free software on the millions of devices that are already out there! I found using the software really great and fairly easy to use.Tthere are a few more shortcuts that I would like to see on the map screen when you are following the map and perhaps a more filtered/organised way of saving/finding addresses. (I must admit I have only used it for a few days so I simply may not have found the easiest way to do things yet.)

The only two major problems I have had was a miss calculation when I took a wrong turn which resulted in my journey being extended for 1 hour (Do I have to repeat that I was sitting in a DB9 so I wasn’t complaining at all), the only other issue I had was my phone battery died, I can’t really blame the software for that he he he

Below are some screen shots of the Ovi Maps Navigation system:

The other cool thing about the navigation is that you can create your own custom voices, instead of having to select the default settings. Let me warn you that the Surfer dude guidance voice can be very annoying.if want to create your own voice head over to Ovi Store and download the app now or if you want to read more about it and listen to what other people have created go here

So now onto the good stuff… and before I start let me just say DON’T JUDGE ME

My first picnic was in the beautiful Wimbledon Common, it started out all pleasant as you can see from the images below.

As you can see the picnic basket was amazing, and so was the location that ovi took us.

If you have a sharp eye you may have noticed some tech sitting on the basket. It wouldn’t have been a real NokiaNav picnic without some Nokia devices.

Let me introduce the AWESOME MD9 mini speakers

These little bad boys took me by surprise. The sound is really good on them and they are very very compact. I am definitely going to get myself some for the future.

The adventures continued when I decided to ask  Ovi Maps to take me to  Windsor for some sight seeing.

I thought that having a picnic in the middle of town outside the castle wasn’t the best idea, mainly because people started pointing (Pointing is rude you know!!)

Luckily for me Windsor Park is a beautiful place to be and was not to far away from these very interesting postboxes.

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Seeing as though I was in Windsor I thought it be wise to let my inner child out and visit LEGOLAND.

Unfortunatly for me it was closed, however this wasn’t going to stop me…

It was very funny when the security guards came out and asked what I was doing, to which I answered, “I came all this way, I might as well still have fun and take pictures”. It did help that I had a Aston Martin DB9 with me he he he.

Let me warn you though if you try to have to many picnics you might go a little crazy as the two images below seem show.

Like any great Sat Nav system, it is very easy to simple click on the map and ask to be taken to a petrol station or a museum or in my case a  food location.

Drive thru style

Now you might think that there isn’t anything more I could possible say about driving or having a picnic. Well I you would be wrong! The best picnic  to me always has to have two things.

1) something nice to eat

2) good sights

So what better picnic to have than to eat strawberries off of a Aston Martin DB9 in the middle of a park