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Can't find my location - I'm using an N81 8GB on O2 UK (Postpay) and I'm based in London however my icon doesn't move from the default Finish location.

When I select More -> Settings -> Location Info, the Location: waiting... never moves from this status.

There doesn't seem to be any 'Find Me' function - that's kind of obvious.

Thoughts?

I am a fan of Nokia phones since 1998. I have always been using Nokia phones for my self and my wife. However I have had a very bad experience with E51.

The phone went in to liquid damage twice within a year of purchase. The second time Nokia repair centre refused to accept it for repairs. All this is OK and acceptable to me.

What i have to tell Nokia is that such phones which are sensitive to even sweat on palm, should not be makrketed by them at all, at least in places like Mumbai, where humidity level is very high.

Nokia is such a brilliant company, this approach is not expected out of them. This only causes irritation and regrete.

Inspite of this i have bought a new 3120. I trust it gives me good service.

I'd love to see this app integrated with Twitter. Anyway, good work!

Hi, I own a similar website of yours. I was just wondering if you get a loads of spam? If so how do you control it, any plugin or something you can suggest? I get so much it's driving me nuts so any help is very appreciated.

Ican't wait

@Chris Si: Indeed, Friend View is not scanning your location continuously as Sports Tracker is doing (due to each of these services specific use cases). What Friend View does is that it scans your location occasionally (not very often in 'background') and posts it for your friends to see, so that they see your

OOOOOH, just picked up my phone to see a notification that I have a friend request, right there on my Active Standby. EXCELLENT WORK.

Nevermind, clicking 'yes' that I wanted to see it caused my E71-2 to promptly reboot. :-\

Anyone wants to become friends? ;-) User ID: amby.

The web maps, which were working originally, have stopped working in Firefox and Safari on my Mac -- no errors of any sort, just missing maps.

Also, I don't appear to be able to select the "Easy WLAN" access point, which would allow me to select an arbitrary access point -- all I can do is select from a list of previously defined access points.

great job guys once again! Mobile interface is very nice. Keep it up!

NOTICE:

Hi! You might have noticed that we experienced a problem with Nokia Account sing in 12 hours ago. We are glad to announce that Nokia Account is working normally again and so is Friend View. :)

Thanks for your patience,

- The Friend View Team

We're currently experiencing problems with the connection to our user account system. Unfortunately this means that you can't login via web or mobile. We're working to fix this and will post here once the service is available again.

Best regards,
The Friend View Team

This is great stuff. One step ahead of other micro blogs i should say.

Ok, now i had a bit more time to play with friends view.

Good:
- Easy to setup
- Easy and intuitive to use
- Fast and responsive

Bad:
- Frinds without a nokia or not a member can't read my post/comments. Maybe a option to post messages public/frinds/privat would be an solution.
- I'm mission a widget to show my comments and maybe the map on my one HP and/or in Ovi. Maybe something that looks like a shoutbox.

Suggestions:
- As it is allready a nokia account, it shouldn't be to hard, to insert the posibility, that every time, i upload a new picture/video on ovi, a new Message with the link to the picture show up in my history.
- Nice would be if you would show on the map, at which location i shot a photo or made a post.
- Integration into "nokia photos", so the post show up like sms/mms and i got a more complete log of what i did with my phone.

Wired things/Bugs
- I haven't installed or changed anything on my phone the last week, exeped Frind view yesterday.
Since yesterday my N95-1 seams more responsive to the gps. I even get inside my house a good and correct signal.
The bad, since yesterday its constanly online and transfering data, even if the frinds view application is closed!
In the last 12 hours (around 8 of this i was asleep and not using my phone), i had a datatransfer of neary 4 MB, which could be realy expensive on a phone.
Taskmanager says, there is no programm runing in the background..

Eismaus

Tried the application on N73. So far I've encountered some random crashes, but nothing serious.

My question is that does the application support automatic location updates for phones that do not have a GPS chip and no access to an external GPS device? At least I was unable to get my location to update via mobile network positioning. For example, google maps updates my position successfully...

Anyone tried the page http://friendview.nokia.com/ with Nokia browser, its unusable? Same thing if opened in firefox and make the window smaller like in phone. Shouldn't someone test these pages with phones also as they are certainly going to be accessed with phones?

Muy bueno aqui os dejo un articulo en espa

Nice program!!! :D
If anyone wants to add me as a friend then my username is my comments name :D

Pros:
Easy to set up. (if you have an OVI account already!)
Simple to use.
Interesting features

Cons:
Manually changing locations takes a bit of time. If you are moving more than 2 screens away the location target jumps back to your first location before the map loads correctly. takes a few tries till the map loads so you can target your new location.

I'm sure i'll find a few more pros and cons after i've played with it for a day or 2 :D

Good work, but as some already said, it should work together with Nokia Chat and also use the maps from Nokia Maps.
Or at least a possibility to send the location data from somone to Nokia Maps, so you could use Maps to navigate to him/her.

I have the feeling that the GPS connection is a lot worse than it is with Nokia Sportstracker. But I might be wrong, or the day was wrong.
With Sportstracker I have a signal also with my phone in the pocket (N95), with Nokia Friend View not :-(

This is what at least I've been hoping and waiting for - now microblogging+ finally works as it should :o)
Thanks for great service! Looking forward for further development...
Cheers, Tuomo

Wow! Great app. Loved playing with it. It doesn't seem to find my location using the network here in Toronto with my E65 so I am now going to buy a new Nokia phone that has GPS just to use this more.

It would be great if it could alert me when a friend gets nearby and I wander close to them. Say 500m? So I know to check the location and comment and see if maybe they are doing something interesting. Friend sonar! PING!!!

additional to my last comment: suddenly Friend View sent just one position inbetween, while Sportstracker is continuously sending!

Excellent!! Any plans creating facebook widget for this service? :)

Nice.

Played with it for a few minutes and allready missiong a widget for my blog/ovi and a posted photo on ovi notification.

Loving it! ;) Now I have to spend my night checking out the unlimited data plans in Italy... (not as easy as you would think ;)

@Lupa: thanks! ;)

I can't get the mobile app to work over the 3 UK Network using a E71 or N95 8GB. Is the problem the application or the 3 network blocking access. I can access everything on the internet with my data account, so not sure what the problem is.

its great, Nokia Friend View = Plazes + Microblogging is it??

So it is another "free" app that generates loads of traffic. I wish I work for Network operators rather then develop apps for Nokia.

Beware of free software!

Don't just surf. Make waves!

How about Friend View using the Nokia maps data, Map content so that It will not cost me the GPRS when the map is available and Locations data, Let say like I am going to a Public palace or a restaurant and I want to post its location with my msg that I am going there, So that friends near that location can get know, or friend who don't know the location can come by the time we reach their

Hi all!

Wow! We really wish we could answer individually to all your great comments, questions, suggestions, etc. Thanks to all that have been sending feedback via e-mail and commenting! As a research team, WE LOVE FEEDBACK :)

We are trying to do our best to answer some issues and at the same time to fix and improve over time... but days are too short! especially here up north ;)

IDEAS: Great ideas we've read so far! thanks a lot!

COMMENTS:
- We will try to work on as many solutions as we can from your comments to improve: our "to do" request list keeps getting longer :-)! Some of the issues commented, are already being considered.

- Account verification happens through Nokia Account, so we ask you to be patient in order for Friend View to process that information and allowing you to have full features.

Thanks again for all the feedback!
We'll keep reading and answering as much as we can :)

Cheers,
The Friend View Team

How do you perform network positioning? Is it a part of the S60 API's? Which one?

@Baumi: Friend View does use the current Nokia Account, if you have a Share on Ovi account only, you need to create still a Nokia Account to use Friend View.

We consider and appreciate all your comments, thanks a lot to all giving active feedback :)

Greetings from the Friend View Team!

So if you are a Twitter uses whats the incentive to use this instead?

Why cannot Friends View and Sports Tracker use the map data of Nokia Maps? If I have all Europe on my memory card, I don't want to spend time and money downloading maps from the net.

Anyway, a nice application!

Thanks for your answer,you wrote:
"@Chris Si: When Friend View is put in the background (keypad locked, screen saver activated, etc

Hi! Will be supported web-interface Opera? Does Nokia Friend View Russian language? It would be great!

http://mobifor.ru