Sticking it to the inbuilt nokia GPS software

so. this episode starts ever since i grew tired of my old nokia 7610 and decided that i wanted a new phone, which has been long overdude... as i have had my trusty old 7610 since i started uni...

but never the less, decided that that phone was just too damm slow and i am getting mad at how an old granny can react much faster than my old phone...

so i started looking out in the market for whats out there that catches my eye. there is obviously the iphone. but me being the fanatic nokia fan i am, decided that i wanted a nokia, and i had my heart set very much on the N95 until i saw the 5800 XpressMusic.

the reason i like this one above all others was the fact that its fully touch screen... and also has an inbuilt GPS. fastforward a few months, and i got my 5800 on my birthday.
YAY i am all happy and over the moon and cant let go of my phone and all the usual yada yada yada....

i even connected it to my PC and loaded the maps on and all and started using the GPS. which worked great for the first week. after which it decided to be annoying and started asking me for money to navigate my around. and not like a one time payment of $29.95 or something... a "YEARLY SUBSCIPTION OF" $200 or something along the lines. WTF!!!

kinda reminds you of your broke friends who want you to pay for their movie so they can watch it with you. and THAT JUST PISSED ME OFF!!!! so after a lot of hard searching that (unofficially) to the mecca of searching (GOOGLE), i found a cracked version of Garmin for mobile XT. and like with all garmins, there is a ton of free open source stuff online. everything from maps, POIs to even customized voices of stewie from family guy or cartman from southpark.

and the best part is, it works!!!! so i am a happy camper now with my brand new and lets not forget FREE software that navigates. and its all updateable whenever i want.... its all just a click away.

mind you, it is a bit of a hassle, took me about a day to get it all up and running. but then again, all good things take time.

so before i go, i leave you with this:
Ask not what open source software can do for you, but what YOU can do for open source software.

take care
Sankalp