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Mobile Traveler enables you when you are traveling abroad (e.g. Japan) to find your way around there. It uses Google to find routes and enables pre-fetching parts of Googles/Microsoft, OpenStreet maps and satellite images at home or any where you have WiFi or cheap datarates of your mobile telephone provider. Besides this it is especially usefull when you are visiting Japan. Traveling in Japan with the public transport is very safe and a fast way to move around. MobileTraveler contains almost all Japans Honsu area trainlines and all shinkansen tracks. And best of all it's freeware. The software is tested on a SonyEricsson Xperia X1 and on a HP IPAQ rx5900. It works fine on both devices. It is known that a touch screen device is required. It will NOT work on devices that do NOT have a touchscreen.
Maps can be downloaded in 2 ways. From within mobile traveler using a WiFi (See HOTSPOTS Japan here) or 3G connection picture by picture depending on the lat/lon location viewed or by using the MapFileConverter also found in the downloading section. The last one runs on Windows XP & Windows Vista. The MapFileConverter enables you to prefetch many pictures of a whole area. The files downloaded by the MapFileConverter are placed in a subdirectory at your PC where you installed the MapFileConverter. This directory must be copied to youre windows mobile device at the \..\MobileTraveler\MobileTraveler\Maps directory. Using the MapFileConverter saves 3G costs and works faster.
JR-east runs the main trainlines in the Tokyo bigger area. It is however not the only one. Keikyu, Sotetsu, Odakyu are some of the many other ones running train lines mainly in the Tokyo & Kanagawa prefectures. JR-east however enables you to buy a JR rail pass that can be used on all JR rails and JR busses in whole Japan including the expensive but rapid shinkansen trains (except the Nozumi series.). JAL and ANA are the airliners within Japan. JAL is also flying to places outside Japan. ANA is famous about it painted planes containing pictures of Pokemon and Disney. Japan really has many faces. On one hand it contains the most hightech electronic, computer and car industries (e.g. SONY, Panasonic, Toshiba, Toyota, Lexus, Honda) On the otherhand it has old traditions which mainly can be seen during festivals and in the former Empire city Kyoto. It is one of the denst populated countries of the world especially because only a few procent of the country can be used to build cities (The rest of the country is forrest on mountains created by vulcanic activities). It has the largest metropolitan area on our planet in Tokyo and the cities around it. There are living 32 million people while the total number of people of Japan is around 128 million. It is a very safe country for western visiters. They probably even won't notice the Japanese Yakusa who is as famous as the Italian Mafia. Japan is also special about pornography. Showing pubic hair in magazines or video's is not allowed but Manga and Hentai comic strips show extreme forms of sex. Every Japanese under 40 years old had a lot of English education. Although many of them can write it well most of them don't speak it very well. On the one hand they are ashamed to do so and on the other hand they just didn't practice speaking English enough.
It is only possible to use MobileTraveler on windows mobile5.0, 5.1, 6.0,6.1,6.5 TOUCH SCREEN devices. It must be installed on a storage card and at least 20 megabyte of free RAM memory is needed. It will not work if one of these conditions is not met. It is currently been tested and working on a large scale of HTC & Samsung devices
Tested on :
Sony Ericsson Xperia X1
HP IPAQ rx5900, HP iPAQ 210
Toshiba TG01, Toshiba G810
Dell Axim X51v
ZTE-Me/Mobile, ETEN-X650V01, ETEN-M800V02, TRIN100, LGE-GM750
HTC HD2 T8585, HTC-VOGU100, HTC-DIAM500, HTC Touch Pro T7272, HTC Touch Pro2 T7373, HTC-ST7377, HTC-T7380, HTC Touch2 T3333, HTC-Touch_Diamond, HTC-Touch Diamond2 T5353, HTC-ELF010050, HTC-WHIT100
HTC-ARTE30000, HTC-Kaiser, HTC-ST6356, HTC-ST7377, HTC-Polaris, HTC-MDA Vario V, HTC Touch Diamond P3700, HTC-P4600, HTC-ATHE400, HTC-T-Mobile Rhodium, HTC-T-Mobile_LEO
SAMSUNG-SGH-i780, SAMSUNG-SGH-i900, SAMSUNG SCH-i910, SAMSUNG-SCH-i920, SAMSUNG-GT-I8000, SAMSUNG-GT-B7300, SAMSUNG-GT-B7610
SamsungMobile-SGH-i90
If youre are not looking for this freeware product or are looking for a great windows mobile phone to run it on you probably can find it by the search results supported by google shown on the top of this website. Just click on them or enter you search string in the searchbox. It is known that TOMTOM has no japan maps. It seems however that for Garmin some maps are available. They however will never have the details that are supported by Google, Microsoft or even OpenStreetmap
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