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A Bing Maps app is installed by default on all Windows 8 workstations, but many users are actually turning to third-party map services to explore specific locations across the world.
While each has its own pros and cons, Better Maps comes with a great mix of Google Maps, Bing Maps and Nokia Maps right on the Metro i... |
12 March 2013
04:37 GMT |
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Today, Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia unveiled at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona two new smartphones running under Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 operating system, namely the Lumia 520 and Lumia 720, and also announced some changes to its mapping and navigation services for smartphones. Starting today,... |
25 February 2013
12:31 GMT |
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One of the appealing applications that was made available for Windows Phone users is Package Tracker, a software powered by Nokia’s HERE mapping platform, which can provide useful and accurate parcel tracking, and which is already supported by many couriers.
What’s highly appealing in this tracking app ... |
13 February 2013
13:31 GMT |
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Nokia has made a series of enhancements to its Maps recently, now offering support for more countries around the world, in addition to other new features and improvements.
All these changes should already be visible to the owners of Nokia Windows Phone 8 devices, the company notes.
Those users who haven’t been no... |
25 January 2013
10:38 GMT |
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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has confirmed an issue with its Nokia Maps 3.06 app on Symbian devices that also have the latest map data installed.
Released in December last year, the newest map data from Nokia (namely 0.2.47.103) would cause Navigation in Nokia Maps to not launch when in offline mode.
Furtherm... |
10 January 2013
16:51 GMT |
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One of the capabilities that Nokia’s latest Lumia devices came to the market with was the option to make photos location-aware, courtesy of a simple app called Photo Maps, powered by Nokia’s Maps service. Photo Maps can be found in the camera UI under the Lenses option and enables users to see the real ... |
21 December 2012
07:41 GMT |
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Earlier this week, Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia made available for download a new flavor of its Nokia Maps application for devices running under Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 operating system.
Along with it, the company also released an update to its mapping data, it seems, and users are encouraged to check... |
21 December 2012
04:29 GMT |
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Nokia Maps, the popular mobile application that the Finnish mobile phone maker has made available for its Windows Phone 8 users as well, has been updated to version 3.1.177.8.
The new application release is already available for download through the Windows Phone Store, and can be found on this page in the software ... |
19 December 2012
03:59 GMT |
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Nokia has just updated is mapping service to support Windows Phone 8. In fact, the application now requires Windows Phone 8 or higher platforms in order to run successfully.
Nokia Maps works in most places where Bing Maps fails miserably. According to Windows Phone users the former is also much faster and easier to ... |
30 November 2012
04:09 GMT |
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On Tuesday, Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia officially announced the launch of HERE, a location cloud that should provide great maps and location experiences across operating systems. The company notes that the new brand is expected to inspire a new generation of location services and devices, so that users would ... |
14 November 2012
02:18 GMT |
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Nokia’s Maps is one of the most popular navigation services in the world, but it seems that it still has some glitches that the company needs to address in the shortest period of time possible.
One of them includes the lack of coverage for Cyprus and Israel, which might be a major drawback for users interested... |
13 November 2012
13:21 GMT |
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Lumia 920 and Lumia 820, Nokia’s first Windows Phone 8 devices, arrive on shelves with a nice range of appealing features coming from the Finnish handset vendor itself, including a new flavor of the Nokia Maps application.
The new app release brings along a nice range of enhancements when compared to what was... |
7 November 2012
13:01 GMT |
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Nokia’s Windows Phone 8 handsets will arrive on shelves with the company’s Location Platform loaded on them, with some features available for other manufacturers as well, such as Nokia Drive.
Nokia has already committed to making its location service available for all devices running under Microsoft&rsq... |
5 November 2012
14:41 GMT |
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Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia is already offering enhanced mapping coverage for a long list of cities in India, but it seems that the company is aiming at further expanding the reach of its service.
At the moment, Nokia Maps are available in over 4,000 cities around the country, with over 7 million points of int... |
12 October 2012
20:41 GMT |
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Windows Phone 8, Microsoft’s next-generation mobile operating system, will arrive on the market with Nokia’s Maps service included in the equation, a feature that should make a lot of users happy. Offering wide coverage around the world, the mapping service has been widely recognized to be one of the be... |
21 September 2012
17:11 GMT |
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Nokia has confirmed that it's supplying the mapping data for Amazon's new Maps API. The new API was revealed a short while ago, but Amazon did not say where it gets its map data from. There were some rumors that Nokia was involved, via its Navteq acquisition, prior to the launch of the new Kindle Fires."Ama... |
17 September 2012
18:41 GMT |
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Following a series of rumors on Amazon’s possible plans to launch its own mobile phone, new reports suggest that the company could be set to make the device official as soon as today. The company will hold a launch event today, and the Amazon Phone could be unveiled then, a recent article on The Verge claims.... |
6 September 2012
02:39 GMT |
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With the second-generation Kindle Fire less than a week from being unveiled, it's understandable that leaks are starting to crop up. Actually, Amazon is looking like a sieve at the moment.
There have been several leaks about the Kindle Fire, including photos, a leak about the Kindle "paperwhite" with built-in ... |
31 August 2012
09:31 GMT |
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Windows Phone 8, the next-generation mobile OS from Microsoft, is expected to bring along a wide range of enhancements over previous platform releases. Nothing has been officially announced on the matter, but various rumors on this already surfaced, and new ones caught our attention now. According to WPCentral, W... |
12 June 2012
14:11 GMT |
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The latest version of Nokia Transport promises to bring more features and improvements in the mix, while keeping the same level of performance and stability.
Although it’s still a work in progress, the on-the-move application for urban travels, already comprises thousands of maps, schedules and timetables for ... |
5 June 2012
08:11 GMT |
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One of the great applications that Nokia’s Windows Phone devices in the Lumia series have to offer is Nokia Maps. The software was designed to provide users with the best mapping experience on their Lumia phones, and it can be downloaded for free from Nokia’s collection section in the Windows Phone Mark... |
5 June 2012
08:04 GMT |
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Owners of a Nokia smartphone powered by the Symbian operating system can now download and install on their devices a new flavor of the Nokia Pulse application. The new software release brings along a series of social features that have been pushed to the users of Nokia Windows Phone handsets a few weeks back. For... |
28 May 2012
16:21 GMT |
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It appears that Nokia Maps Suite is reportedly out of beta and available for update via Nokia Suite or OTA (over the air). The beta version of the application is still listed in the Betalabs, and no official changelog has been released for the final version yet.
MyNokiaBlog reports that Nokia Maps Suite 2.0 is now o... |
4 April 2012
03:27 GMT |
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China Telecom and Nokia have just announced the upcoming availability of Lumia 800C in the country. The smartphone is expected to hit shelves sometime in April for 3599 RMB (570 USD or 430 EUR) outright.
The smartphone comes bundled with lots of exclusive applications and services, which are meant to improve the Chi... |
28 March 2012
19:31 GMT |
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Finish handset maker Nokia has just released updates for two of the most popular Windows Phone apps, Maps and Drive. Nokia Drive 2.0 is now available for download for Lumia smartphones. The latest version brings offline route planning and navigation, as well as notice of speed limits.The user interface's design ... |
20 March 2012
22:31 GMT |
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Nokia’s renowned Maps service is available for the owners of Android and iOS devices as well, courtesy of an HTML5 flavor that Nokia made available for them last year.
Until then, Nokia Maps was available exclusively on handsets running under the Symbian platform. Today, it is also loaded on Windows Phone de... |
13 March 2012
16:11 GMT |
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Today, Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia announced the availability of a new flavor of its Nokia Maps Suite application.
The new application release does not come with new features, but it does offer a variety of improvements and enhancements meant to provide users with a better experience.
According to the develop... |
8 March 2012
07:51 GMT |
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It appears that Nokia has decided to discontinue its Ovi Share service as of May 31, 2012. Those who use this service will still be able to make web uploads until March 12.
However, starting March 13 web uploads won’t be possible anymore. May 30 will be the last day for downloading user content. As of May 31 t... |
5 March 2012
13:01 GMT |
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Google has dominated online mapping ever since Google Maps came about and its Google Earth plugin didn't really have any competition. Online mapping isn't a particularly lucrative business either and it's quite expensive, not to mention hard, to maintain and evolve this type of service. Which is why t... |
7 December 2011
08:46 GMT |
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When Microsoft and Nokia announced that they signed an agreement and that the latter will adopt the Windows Phone platform for new smartphones, we learned that leading services from the Finnish handset vendor will be available for the entire all Windows Phone users out there, Nokia Maps included. This did not change... |
23 November 2011
17:11 GMT |
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One of the appealing features that Nokia's new Windows Phone devices come to the market with is Nokia Drive, which spells navigation powered by Nokia Maps.
Nokia's GPS navigation is one of the best there is when it comes to such service on mobile phones, yet it still lacks some important features, such as ... |
21 November 2011
05:21 GMT |
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Nokia is one of the leading providers of mapping services around the world, and Symbian users already know that, since the service is available for them for free.
Nokia Windows Phones were also expected to get a taste of Maps, and it seems that all devices that run under Microsoft's mobile OS can enjoy the fea... |
9 November 2011
16:31 GMT |
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Nokia Lumia 800, the high-end Windows Phone handset that should arrive on shelves in a matter of weeks, will pack the Nokia Drive feature attached to the Nokia Maps application and service.
In the short video above, you can learn a few details on Nokia Drive, including an overview of its main capabilities, and you w... |
8 November 2011
02:33 GMT |
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Nokia Maps, the leading navigation service that Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has put in place for the owners of devices powered by Symbian and Windows Phone Mango, packs a feature that will be available only for the handset vendor's Windows Phones, namely Nokia Drive.
While Maps was supposed to land on all... |
7 November 2011
08:11 GMT |
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Yahoo is continuing to expand its outsourcing. Under former CEO's Carol Bartz leadership, Yahoo moved to get rid of as many businesses and products as possible. The ones that it kept it oursourced to outside companies.
The biggest such move was its search deal with Microsoft. Bing is now powering Yahoo Search a... |
31 October 2011
06:04 GMT |
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When announcing plans to bring to the market handsets running under Microsoft's Windows Phone, Nokia also announced plans to bring some of its applications and services to the new OS, including the much praised Nokia Maps.At the Nokia World conference in London this week, the company took its time to showcase so... |
30 October 2011
08:51 GMT |
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Even though Nokia has been working hard on smoothing user's experience on Nokia device, that didn't prevent the Finnish company from updating the HTML5 version of Nokia Maps for Android and iOS smartphones. The application was previously in beta and could be downloaded, but lots of features were not availab... |
24 October 2011
08:17 GMT |
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Last week, we saw the first Nokia application listed in the Windows Phone Marketplace, yet it seems that there will be more of them, and the emergence of a Nokia Maps placeholder in the storefront is a proof of that.
Most probably, the mobile application will be pre-installed on upcoming Nokia Windows Phones, but... |
3 October 2011
02:51 GMT |
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Today, a new flavor of Nokia's Maps application was made available for download, with a series of changes to the user interface and the addition of a new app into the mix, weather.
The new Nokia Maps 3.08 came out from the Nokia Beta Labs today with these features inside, and with others as well, offering S... |
26 August 2011
10:21 GMT |
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Recently, Nokia's Maps service was said to be working on devices that run under other mobile operating systems than Symbian, and coming from other handset vendors than Nokia, and today the move was made official.
In addition to Symbian, the Nokia Maps can be accessed from Android and iOS devices as well, th... |
22 July 2011
08:45 GMT |
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Following the singing of a deal with Microsoft for the loading of Windows Phone on its upcoming smartphones, Nokia announced that it would also bring some of its services to handsets that run under this OS, Maps included. What they did not announce, but it seems that they already delivered was support for other mo... |
14 July 2011
07:49 GMT |
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Today, Nokia announced the launch of three new Series 40 mobile phones, the C2-02, C2-03 and C2-06, all of which come with a brand new feature into the mix, namely Nokia Maps.With these handsets, the leading mobile phone maker debuts the free location service to its S40 handsets, so that more users can enjoy it at l... |
21 June 2011
05:36 GMT |
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Three new affordable Nokia devices are now official, straight from the Nokia Connection conference in Singapore, namely the Nokia C2-02, Nokia C2-03 and Nokia C2-06.All three are Series 40-powered feature phones, and come to the market with Nokia Maps, the first such handsets to include Nokia's location service... |
21 June 2011
03:24 GMT |
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Espoo, Finland-based mobile phone maker Nokia, the largest handset vendor in the world, announced today the introduction of yet another affordable device for its users, the Nokia 2710 Navigation Edition. According to the company, the new handset comes to the market as its most affordable mobile phone to include GPS ... |
7 December 2009
07:34 GMT |
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The Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has recently announced that it plans to acquire the Berlin-based professional services and software company, bit-side. This is a privately-owned German mobile mapping software firm that has 39 employees. Nokia stated that the acquisition of bit-side is expected to allow it to stre... |
28 January 2009
03:19 GMT |
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All mobile users out there who think their geography skills are unmatchable, pay attention: Nokia has come up with a new and quite nice contest that has a 6210 Navigator and cool toys as prizes. What do you have to do in order to win? Well, go to Nokia's Mapster website and enter the Mapster Competition. No... |
13 September 2008
05:26 GMT |
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Nokia announced today that Rogers Wireless, Canada's largest mobile carrier, is the first to offer the Nokia Maps and N-Gage services to Canadian customers. Both services are available for some time now in Europe, the US and on other markets, but Canada just did not get the chance to have them.When using Nokia M... |
10 September 2008
15:31 GMT |
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Nokia, the largest handset manufacturer in the world, and Lonely Planet, the famous travel guidebook publisher, have just announced the availability of Lonely Planet for Nokia Maps 2.0. From now on, Nokia users who love to travel can get Lonely Planet city guides for more than 100 destinations. The guides are inte... |
19 August 2008
06:20 GMT |
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Announced in October last year, Nokia's acquisition of NAVTEQ was finally completed today, after all the necessary procedures and requirements have been met. Based in Chicago, USA, NAVTEQ is an important provider of electronic maps and GIS data (Geographic Information Systems). The whole deal cost Nokia no less ... |
10 July 2008
13:37 GMT |
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Nokia recently released the final version of its Nokia Maps 2.0, which comes after the beta edition that was made available back in February. The stable 2.0 application brings maps for more than 200 countries around the world (users can navigate on more than 70 of them). The vector maps included are from TeleAtlas an... |
23 May 2008
09:02 GMT |
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