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That's bad. Even before I saw this thread, I downgraded back to iOS 5.1.1 because the new maps were so bad. I did not test if they work on 3G though. But if they don't (I guess new maps use non-http ports that are filtered by Rogers), then iOS 6 is to a large extent useless on Speakout. Here is the downgrade guide that worked for me. Having a backup in iTunes helps. The guide says to also upgrade iTunes to 10.6.3, but I already had 10.7 and it worked too,
http://techglobex.blogspot.ca/.....re-to.html

One note. After downgrade I lost 3G. I re-entered APN settings (through iPhone Config Util), toggled 3G on/off, took the SIM out and put it back in. Nothing helped. Called support, they said to hard reset the phone (hold both power and home buttons down for 10secs until the screen goes black) and they were going to send a signal to the phone or something. That did not seem to help. So 5-10 minutes after hanging up on support and finding that reset did not help, I took the SIM out again and put in an old non-working SIM and then put my SIM back and 3G started working. Maybe it was another SIM, but maybe it took support few minutes to do whatever they were going to do.

iOS 6 doesn't have any feature I consider as 'nice to have' so far. Even iOS 5 comparing with 4 is just a 'well...'

IMO, apple has already passed their peak from a mobile phone technology perspective.

I have saved my SHSH on all the iDevice and would stick with 5.1.1 for a long long time.

I have a 4s with ios6 and Speakout. I can get apple maps to work on 3G if I am getting it to navigate from source to destination. The voice navigation (turn left on this road, go for another 500 metres, etc). The only issue I seem to have is the maps are not always displayed. So I may start of with the maps and half way through to my destination, the roads may disappear. However, the voice navigation to direct me to my destination has been working flawlessly so far. It also knows to use alternate routes if I deviate from my original route.

I have another issue with ios 6 /Speakout but will start another tread

Little correction, I tried iOS6 maps in Toronto downtown today and to my surprise it did work, it just took a bit of time before all data was loaded (satellite and street maps). I didn't try navigation though but from what I hear wouldn't dare anyway until Apple has sorted the major bugs.

I've used the app Navfree USA when I go to the US. It preloads the maps so that the phones' GPS can give you directions, even without cell service. I'm pretty sure you can get Canadian maps too.

Ok, just checked, and the maps app *does* work in iOS on SpeakOut. It just takes a minute or two to load the map data. I bet it tries whatever port it usually runs on, and it times out and falls back to port 80.

that i believe is because google switch to https once you sign in, for everything. It is one thing I like about them starting from gmail. yahoo still doesn't encrypt mail content and hotmail was very recently have encrypt everything.