Metro for Nokia E61
It's a good day today. A very good day. One of my absolute favorite applications has just beed made available for the Nokia E61 and other S60 3rd edition devices such as the rest of the E-Series - Metro.
Metro is a free and indispensable subway guide with maps of hundreds of subway systems all over the world. The list of cities with a subway system that is covered by this application is simply amazing.
The applicationi is intuitive and feature rich but the main benefit is that it will calculate the route between two points based on user preferences such as shortest route or fewest connections.
If you have never used Metro you are in for a very pleasant discovery. This is an application that you will view as a "must have". If you have used Metro - rejoice, it is now available for the Nokia E61. Thank you Frank and Patrice!
July 25th, 2006 at 12:15 pm
I installed metro this morning - it’s a very handy program however, it’s not quite as user friendly as the Palm OS version.
July 25th, 2006 at 6:02 pm
I installed it this AM as well.
I agree with Charles’ assessment. In addition - it does not appear to save preferences.
July 25th, 2006 at 6:03 pm
I agree with Charles’ assessment.
In addition - it appears that preferences do not save and the “Select” logic of the left sofkey is messed up.
July 25th, 2006 at 11:45 pm
I agree that this version isn’t as good as the Palm version. However, since this is the first release for S60 3rd edition I think it is a first good step forward (but I am already hoping for a future update)
July 26th, 2006 at 2:03 am
The Palm OS has touch screen, and since the UI remains the same as the Palm OS version, I think that touch screen devices will have an advantage.
July 26th, 2006 at 8:14 am
Hmmm. If only I could read that really small font on the list of directions on my E61. Any way this can be made larger?
July 26th, 2006 at 9:58 am
hi
I’ve downloaded and installed in e61. But I gotten some unrecognisable fonts/characters in the final screen.
July 26th, 2006 at 4:04 pm
I, too, am a bit disappointed. It’s a much less intuitive interface than on the Palm or UIQ platforms. I frequently inadvertently exited the program while trying to enter data or change settings. The small fonts are also very difficult to read (probably more Nokia’s fault than Metro’s). Perhaps someone else can tell me why the preferences keep re-setting to NO despite being re-set to YES. (Preferences include using fewest connections, station name auto fill. etc.)
July 29th, 2006 at 8:22 am
Im not sure if its a bug. I get little rectangulars when Metro displays the computation. Anyway to get around this? Suspect its a font issue. My E61 is with support for Chinese Chars.
July 31st, 2006 at 8:52 pm
Hi there, I get the same problem after installing it on my N80. The letters appear as little boxes. I changed my language settings but it does not help.
regards
August 13th, 2006 at 11:28 am
I don’t like it - I would love to see maps in it as I usually find my way around a train network using those. Lists of stations is no good to me.
August 13th, 2006 at 11:28 am
Is there an alternative that does mapping?
September 28th, 2006 at 4:33 am
I am used to the Palm version of Metro. How can I import the other cities on the zip file. They appear to be in a Palm format and i have been unable to use the Nokia installer to download additional cities. Any advise????
November 9th, 2006 at 5:06 pm
In order to get rid of the annoying small rectangular boxes is to have Nokia provide a font that reads characters such as “Courier New”. This by the way is the same issue in MS Word if you use a Font that does not support accents. Your Nokia may be able to input accents but it will not be able to read accented text sent by other fonts as from the web or third party applications unless it is a standard set like Courier New. The geniuses at Nokia should provide such Font downloads.
March 5th, 2008 at 12:47 am
I got certificate error on E61i. How to resolve?