Abstract: A wireless mobile device or other communications device has a memory and processor for executing an e-mail application that enables a user to store personal information about the user's contacts, including time-zone differential and/or current local time for each of the contacts. When the user seeks to communicate with a contact (e.g. via e-mail, IM or autodial), or if the user seeks to schedule a meeting or event with one or more contacts, the application will alert the user if the current local time is inappropriate for the contact. The application can also determine the location of the contact in order to update the current local time associated with that contact. The application therefore enables the user of an e-mail application to intelligently communicate or schedule meetings with contacts who are located in different time-zones and may also be traveling.

Abstract: Displaying a map on a wireless communications device includes downloading map data from which the map is to be rendered, rendering portions of the map for which the map data has been fully downloaded, and then graphically overlaying on a portion of the map for which the map data has not yet been fully downloaded a graphical indication, such as hatching, crosshatching or shading, to indicate that further map data is being downloaded. This hatching, crosshatching, shading, or writing informs the user that further map data is being downloaded and that not all of the map features have been rendered yet.