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MWC 2008: Nokia Maps 2.0 Beta Released, Bringing Enhanced FeaturesIncluding Walk, a new pedestrian-focused navigation component |
By Florin Troaca, Communications News Editor
11th of February 2008, 15:58 GMT
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Nokia announced today, at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the release of the new 2.0 Beta version of the popular Nokia Maps application. The 2.0 version takes mapping and navigation
experiences to a new level by improving its pedestrian navigation, offering satellite images, adding multimedia city guides and bringing a fresh user interface. With vector maps from TeleAtlas and Navteq, Nokia Maps now covers more than 200 countries, with over 70 of the maps being navigable.
Besides offering Drive, the world-class car navigation system, Nokia Maps 2.0 also offers Walk, a new pedestrian-focused navigation component that can easily walk users from A to B with visual turn-by-turn guidance. The Walk feature helps you locate yourself by offering information about streets, parks and surrounding buildings and, in new phones (like the Nokia 6210 Navigator), it can point the direction in which you are walking, using the built-in compass for orientation.
Nokia Maps 2.0 comes with the option to purchase first-class multimedia guides that include photos, videos and audio streams to help your journey even more. Maps users will be provided with a free 3-day Navigation trial (for both Walk and Drive) and an extra 10 minute City Guide trial.
"By taking navigation services out of the car and onto the sidewalk, Nokia is enabling people to explore and discover what's around them with the confidence of a local," said Michael Halbherr, vice president, Nokia location based services. "By combining the integrated compass of the Nokia 6210 Navigator, with the speed and accuracy of assisted GPS, Nokia Maps 2.0 provides a unique experience with which other less accurate mobile navigation applications can't compete."
By upgrading to the GPS navigation option, your handset becomes a powerful connected personal navigation device that will provide accurate turn-by-turn visual and voice guidance (in the case your Nokia phone lacks built-in GPS, you can use an external GPS module). For an optional feel, Nokia Maps 2.0 will offer real-time traffic feeds with dynamic re-routing in no less than 18 European countries.
Nokia announced that it's planning to bring Nokia Maps to the mass market too, by offering a Series 40 version of the application, which should be ready in mid-2008.
The Beta version Nokia Maps 2.0 for selected devices is available as a free download on the Nokia Beta Labs website, at this address, and comes with compatible Nokia Map Loader.
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