Fooled my Nokia N95!

My N95 has a wonderful inbuilt GPS receiver but since the time I have been using the phone (approx. 14 months), I never cared about it, partly because I was in India for 6 months of that time where GPS is like, non-existent. After coming here too, I never paid the attention it deserved. Yesterday, I just gave it a shot. I learnt that the GPS works well but for it to actually navigate somebody from source to destination, you have to buy a subscription from Nokia (around $150/year) plus the data charges (GPRS). This is a totally waste of money. One gets a good quality dedicated GPS device for 100 bucks.

Hence, I decided to search the web for some more information about using it for free. I tried a number of things but could not crack Nokia maps. It just worked like a location pointer and information book which we can even find online.

However, I struck upon a forum which talked about somebody using 3rd party GPS application on N95. I immdiately changed my search phrase and discovered that Garmin, Tom-Tom that are the top GPS device companies have similar applications for smartphones too.

And I wasted no time in finding a torrent for the same :) Downloaded it, cracked it on my phone (with lots of hiccups though)...and voila! Got a full fledged GPS device in my phone itself! I spent almost all day for that and finally managed to crack it...Now I don't have to pay a single penny to either Nokia or my cellular operator (for GPRS). because it works like a normal GPS - uses the in-built receiver to get real-time data from the satellites. Man I am so happy!

Although there are some applications like Google Maps Mobile, MGMaps and some others but they all require a data plan activated to get real time data from the internet but not using satellites. This worked like a charm!

P.S. I hope nobody from Nokia or Garmin reads this :P