Great news for all Sygic Mobile Maps 9 owners with Nokia N900. there is a FREE upgrade for your turn-by-turn app including new features and the maps data available for you: Sygic Mobile Maps 10

if you've missed the video about it a few weeks ago, look here.

Mobile Maps 10 takes your navigation experience to a whole new level:
 

• - The app has new look and feel
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• - While all maps and content are stored on the phone, we added online sharing of speed traps or road
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• - locations and within few weeks also real-time traffic.
• - Navigation to addresses stored in phone’s Contacts is available
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• - Scrolling through menus, lists and map zooming supports touchscreen gestures so that no buttons are needed when using Mobile Maps
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• - Recent state or country is stored automatically, new destination entry is easier and non-relevant cities from various states will not pop up. If you want to pick a destination from a country other than the one you used the last time, just tap Back button on the keyboard to display the list of all available countries
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• - English, 2 Spanish and Chinese instruction voices added (Mandarin, Cantonese and Taiwanese), Chinese user interface languages (Traditional and Simplified)
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• - New speed camera database from the SCDB community – FREE of charge. 99% speed camera coverage
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• - Maps have also received an upgrade. Now with more detail, safer and easier navigation.

if you want to upgrade your MM9 to MM10 for free, go to Sygic upgrade site and follow the instructions. you'll get a email with more details from the Sygic Support asap.

Following description is coming from the Sygic Support:

How to upgrade to Mobile Maps 10:

1. Uninstall Sygic Mobile Maps 9 from your Nokia N900. Go to App Manager in your device, click on Uninstall and choose Mobile Maps - Application.Confirm by clicking Uninstall.

After you have uninstalled Mobile Maps from your device connect your mobile phone to your PC/Mac in Mass storage mode / Data transfer mode (not PC Suite mode or ActiveSync), so the device will be present as separate Disk letter in My Computer (for Windows) or Disk icon on Desktop (for Mac OS X). Open the folder with your device and you should see folders: /Drive, /Maps,/Res and SetupMobileMaps.deb. Delete those folders, just to be sure they are not located in your device.

2. Please click on the link below to download .zip archive with files needed to run application (+/-2GB). SetupSMM_Maemo_Europe.zip

3.After downloading, unzip this archive.If you have Windows ME or XP, Vista, Widows7 or Mac OS X, just double-click on the zip file or folder, it should open just as if it was a regular file or folder on your computer.

4. Copy content of unzipped folder (folders: /Drive, /Maps, /Res etc...) directly to root of Internal memory drive.(It is necessary to copy all folders to Internal memory, not SD card. Otherwise application won’t run.)

IMPORTANT: Folders Drive, Res and Maps must be located directly in the root of Internal memory drive - not in any other folder. (for example: H:/Drive = OK, H:/Sygic Mobile Maps/Drive = Wrong; drive letter can vary according to your computer).

5. Open File manager in Maemo, locate and execute file SetupMobileMaps.deb stored in initial folder of N900. Installation should start afterward. If you are unable to install file SetupMobileMaps.deb because system asks which application should be used to open .deb package or any problem with certificate occurs, it might be caused by your old phone firmware. In that case, you have 2 options:

Update your phone to latest firmware available via: Application Manager > Update. Latest firmware available is: V10.2010.19-1 or

• 1, Install rootsh
• 2, Gain root access (sudo gainroot)
• 3, Install package via console (X Terminal):
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• dpkg –i /home/user/MyDocs/SetupMobileMaps.deb

there is a newer version coming up next for the Maemo OS, what you might already know: Aura is coming to N900, too :-)