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Metro – The ultimate public transport guide

Categories: Applications, Symbian
By: , IntoMobile
Wednesday, August 16th, 2006 at 11:58 AM

With more than 350 cities covered, Metro is the ultimate public transport guide for your PDA and smartphone. It will help and guide you through the metro areas around the world. Some of the features include route computation, contact list, places of interest, line (transport) details and more.

The sad thing about Metro, is that the Symbian version only supports 6 cities – Amsterdam, London, New York, Paris and Tokyo (at least in my test on a Symbian S60 device – picture bellow is from Nokia Communicator).

Metro Series 80

Metro is free and it works on Symbian Series 80 (Nokia Communicators), Series 90 (Nokia 7710), UIQ and S60 (including S60 3rd edition) devices. The UIQ 3 version is still not available, but as they update Metro pretty regularly, I’m sure we can expect it very soon.

About The Author

Dusan Belic

Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.

  • Bernie

    I believe that you can load other cities via separate files. These city files are shared across all platforms.

  • Tony

    The S60 version of Metro does support other cities. Simply copy the map (*.pdb file) for the desired city to the \Nokia\Metro directory on the RAM card where you’ve installed Metro.