Nokia to offer free maps app and service for rival handsets
Nokia is a free competitor, has unveiled plans to offer the device map application.There are downloadable maps for offline use primarily Apple iOS street plan, and audio for Pedestrians – indicates the device will be based.
Nokia is developing a version for Mozilla Firefox’s upcoming operating system, software and tools to allow third parties to use the Android device’s data will not be published.
Strong action against Google-’s competing products are designed to help defend.
Nokia already has the ability to Flickr, Garmin sat-NAV toys, and I created a map showing the five cars with four maps, including Windows Phone handsets, Amazon’s two tablets, can be found in the Yahoo service. Nokia also said last month that a deal with business software company Oracle has unveiled the see the use of the Services.
Nokia claims more than 20 years of expertise in the area of Navteq luck to her in 2007 for $ 8.1bn (£ 5.1bn).
Although it is “the most advanced of the platform” offers claim, Nokia recognizes that Google’s Ground Truth Project – in which the search giant planet, its Street View cars, and the combination of information gathered from the public – the “well-known” challenger.
Data collection
Way that both companies and improve their services like traffic information as part of the anonymised offers smartphone users are drawn from the information provided.
Windows Phone exceed the smaller the number of users by extending the service, as well as Nokia Google’s facility that Android’s default option is more popular Google Maps-The offset is placed in the integrated device.
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One industry watcher said, but it was noticeable that Nokia under its own brand as its contribution to the market here, it is easy to understand that others may be happy to adopt the platform.
“With this new brand, Nokia aims to become indisputable position player in the cloud,” said Thomas Husson, a technical analyst at Forrester Research.
“Not knowing where to customers at the time, but also where they are and who they are going to have a tremendous value in a set and anonymous way.
“This is a gold mine of information on the location – based aware services that create opportunities for new experiences.”
However, its location services extend to other platforms and provides an opportunity to improve the service, it would undermine the advantages of Nokia devices have threatened them.
Of interest, shops and restaurants near the scene of a phone’s camera to a point on the retention of data overlays – exclusive own will to accept the point, Nokia’s chief executive, Stephen Elop, the lens applications such as mapping services is not to force the device .
Apple’s apology
Apple’s own maps application problems with a negative impact on the Finnish firm decided to focus on iPhones and iPads first contribution is likely.
Apple’s chief executive Tim Cook in September issued an apology after a complaint was 6 iOS consumers have been hampered by map location is wrong and missing. But here is a native application, such as maps, should be proposed as a superior experience, – Apple’s home page, he posted a letter that is used to create web applications for Nokia or Google-map was proposed.
Nokia has also announced that it was buying Earthmine – a Berkley-based firm that sensor-equipped vehicles to use to create 3D street-level views.
The application Google’s Street View panoramas or 3D representation of the world flyover rival Apple’s move to a facility is added to each point.