It took me about 20 minutes to download Nokia Map Loader for Mac, grab the latest copy of Nokia Multimedia transfer, set it all up, plug in my E71, select UK, Finland and Republic of Ireland maps, and dump them onto my E71. Not bad, considering I’d improved my lot quite considerably with the addition of over 200MB worth of lush mappery.

I was as surprised as the rest of them to see Nokia Map Loader appearing for Mac (albeit in Beta). There isn’t really a whole lot to it, to be honest. Open it up, select which countries you’d like, drag them to the big pane on the right hit the “start download” button and away you go.

Transferring of the maps is run through Nokia Multimedia Transfer, which is a cinch to get up and running and fast too, specially if you’re running it over a USB connection. Above all else it works. Brilliantly. There’s nothing more to it. And sometimes I feel a little let down by that. It’d be lovely to have one iTunes-like portal which could run all my Nokia-related stuff (syncing contacts and the like) and it would just get updated, much like iTunes does, with new features and functions. Then I wouldn’t have to download whole new apps, such as this one. It’d just be another brilliant function on another brilliant bit of software. Rather than a brand new app which is wholly reliant on another one.

Sadly, that’s not the case. And that’s the single only reason why Nokia Maps for Mac doesn’t get the full five stars. Justified?