This is how you give someone the taste of their own medicine, Mapquest, the popular Maps platform owned by AOL, has launched a free Mapquest App especially for Android based phones. The app is all set to take Google maps head-on with free, voice guided, turn-by-turn navigation. There is a Mapquest App for iPhone but this one differs from the iPhone App and if you are thinking that this might now work well outside US, you are wrong cause Mapquest developers have intelligently leveraged Google's speech-input capabilities of Android and this app also consists of OpenStreetMap data, this makes the app work fine outside US and within US users can get enhanced local mapping. As this app works on Open Source Project OSM, the listings and other location based data gets contributed by users, so it is more trust able and available in the time of need!!
Nokia has launched one more low cost phone, the Nokia 2710. The USP is that this one is the cheapest GPS phone that is available in the market at the price point of 110 Euros or INR 7,500 . Navigation as a service is being used by a lot of people on their mobile phones, especially in developed as well as developing nations. With this phone, Nokia has targeted the user who don't want to shell out much cash to buy costly phones which have a navigation feature. This phone will come loaded with Nokia Maps and has straight line navigation with an integrated digital compass. It has turn by turn navigation with voice guidance feature. With this phone, Nokia is targeting mobile users in developing countries like India. One more smart move from Nokia is that, it has incorporated some maps which can be accessed even if there is no connectivity to the GPS or Internet (Nokia will incorporate local maps of the region where it is selling the phone). The maps will be pre-loaded on the 2GB memory card, which comes with the phone. Nokia will also be giving a car kit kit that includes, car charger as well as a car cradle. Other features include, 2.2 inch screen, access to Ovi store, 2 meg snapper, Instant messaging, Ovi Mail and 18 day stand-by mode when fully charged. The phone will be available in Q2 2010. Check out the promotional video of the Nokia 2710.
Since last one and half year, Nokia's focus has been in the integration of multimedia, Internet and entertainment into its mobile devices. Now the company will focus more on two areas, navigation software and messaging software. Navigation and location based services have always been one of the main focus areas of Nokia and now messaging has been added to the list with Nokia Messaging client coming into most of today's Nokia high-end smart phones. Nokia is also been promoting its Ovi mail among existing Nokia users around the world. Nokia already has competitive edge over companies like Apple and Sony Ericsson when it comes to navigation and the company aims at expanding its portfolio of navigation services. Acquisition of companies like Navteq have added to Nokia's competency of navigation and location based services. Nokia will focus on applications for its high-end smart phones.
Since 2007, Nokia has invested as well as restructured itself in such a way that it churns out devices that are best suited for users who look for entertainment from their mobile phones. Whether it is Internet, multimedia, navigation, music and other entertainment form like gaming. Over the last two years Nokia concentrated on music, maps, media, messaging and games but now the company wont be investing much in these areas. The investment levels will drop as compared to the previous year. Of course we know the reason, the current economic recession. Its not thta falling investment levels point toward Nokia's interest going down in these 5 content areas. Nokia will drive its initiative to become a global leader in Internet on mobile and focus on building customer base and loyalty in these areas. So in the coming days Nokia now will not come up with some break through or entirely new things but focus on enhancing its portfolio and how it can deliver value to the customer.
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Apart from the E55 and the E75, Nokia announced the successor of its 6210 Navigator named Nokia 6710 Navigator. This phone focuses more on in-car navigation and pedestrian guidance. Maybe Nokia learnt some lesson from the poor in-car navigation of the Nokia 6210 and made this amendments. Nokia 6710 comes with the latest Nokia 3.0 maps applications with a 5 mega pixel snapper. You can also geo-tag your snaps, I guess this is becoming a must-have function for all phones equipped with Navigation capabilities.
Ovi Store:
Apart from the three phones, Nokia also announced its Ovi store that will offer users a lot of content, which will be based on their locations and preferences. The content that will be offered in the Ovi Store will range from rich applications, games to widgets fro smart phones. The store will be live from May and Nokia users with S40 and S60 devices can make use of various applications and products available on this store. This is Nokia's version of its App Store. Nokia has also opened up this store for developers so that they can showcase their applications on this store and earn 70% of the money, which comes from the sale of the applications they have developed. This strategy will encourage more and more developers to develop applications for Nokia phones and make their presence felt on the Ovi Store.
Tata Indicom, one of the few CDMA service providers in India, will soon be coming up with location-based services for its Indian consumers. Tata Indicom will be the first to provide A-GPS services in India. Assisted GPS (A-GPS) provides the approximate location of users by triangulating the locations of nearby cell sites. The company's upcoming handsets will see this feature.
The location based services and navigation products market in India is heating up with companies launching products like GPS/Navigation units and mobile phones that complement this market. Nokia and Garmeen are putting lot of efforts in order to grab a share in the Indian location based services and navigation market. With Tata Indicom coming up with location-based service, we will soon see CDMA phones with GPS and navigation functionality.
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The location based services and navigation products market in India is heating up with companies launching products like GPS/Navigation units and mobile phones that complement this market. Nokia and Garmeen are putting lot of efforts in order to grab a share in the Indian location based services and navigation market. With Tata Indicom coming up with location-based service, we will soon see CDMA phones with GPS and navigation functionality.
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Nokia launched the N78 and the N96 along with three other handsets at the MWC 2008. After the worldwide launch the N78 was launched yesterday in India. N78 is a multimedia computer that combines music, navigation and photography. The device, based on the S60 3rd Edition developer platform, features integrated A-GPS navigation, 3.2-megapixel snapper with Carl Zeiss optics, and support for a microSD memory card of up to 8 gigabytes to store music and media. The Nokia N78 device can also be used for "geotagging," the process of autotagging photos with location metadata. Using the ‘location tagging’ application present in the Nokia N78, users can automatically tag the location data to the picture they have clicked. This allows the users to save the pictures by date as well as by location coordinates. The devices will be available in India at a retail price of $466. The Nokia N78 is a perfect blend of music, camera and Internet and is one of the Nokia’s devices that will pioneer the idea of user-generated content. The Indian version of the N78 will come preloaded with maps of 8 cities and will also have information across 52 categories such as cafes, restaurants, hotels and more. It will also come with a three-month navigation license in India.
You can check-out the N78 preview here, manual here and commercials of N96 and N78 here.
You can check-out the N78 preview here, manual here and commercials of N96 and N78 here.
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Nokia has finally come to a decision of buying the navigation company Navteq. Navigation devices market is hotting up, especially in emerging countries of Asia, and with the $8.1 billion acquisition of Navteq, Nokia will be competing with TomTom and this acquisition has brought digital maps of 69 countries in Nokia’s kitty. Nokia has taken locations based services and navigation services market very seriously and these kind of acquisitions are helping Nokia to compete with the big wigs in the navigation services market.
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Nokia introduced the Nokia Maps application in February 2008. Till now the version was a beta version but now Nokia has upgraded it and consumers can download this application and start using their on their mobile phones. Yesterday Nokia and France Telecom formed a joint venture, where Nokia is responsible for providing digital mapping solutions. The improved Nokia Maps application is called the Nokia Maps 2.0 and has given focus on enhancing Car Navigation, pedestrian navigation; there are enhanced city guides available. The car navigation functionality of this application has visual and voice guidance on every turn so you will never get lost. Similar kind of turn by run navigation is provided for pedestrians.
The new UI of the application also offers satellite images. At last Nokia has made use of it’s acquisition of Navteq, cause Nokia Maps 2.0 has vector maps that are provided by Navteq. From last two years Nokia is very keen on becoming a company that provides Location based services and with this kind of applications, Nokia is getting closer to becoming one and once in a while, acquisitions like Navteq also help.
I have a thought, which is lingering in my mind from quite sometime and needs to come out, with these kind of map and navigation applications coming, we humans will forget to use your brain to search a place. When you are in a new city, finding places is like an opportunity to talk with locals and increase social contact but these application will quickly give you whatever you are looking for…then what bout our social contact?????
Anyways, Download Nokia Maps
The new UI of the application also offers satellite images. At last Nokia has made use of it’s acquisition of Navteq, cause Nokia Maps 2.0 has vector maps that are provided by Navteq. From last two years Nokia is very keen on becoming a company that provides Location based services and with this kind of applications, Nokia is getting closer to becoming one and once in a while, acquisitions like Navteq also help.
I have a thought, which is lingering in my mind from quite sometime and needs to come out, with these kind of map and navigation applications coming, we humans will forget to use your brain to search a place. When you are in a new city, finding places is like an opportunity to talk with locals and increase social contact but these application will quickly give you whatever you are looking for…then what bout our social contact?????
Anyways, Download Nokia Maps
If you remember I told you about Nokia and Renault coming out with a Twingo car. This was long time back. Nokia and Renault came up with a co-branded car, Renault Twingo Nokia car, this car has Nokia’s navigation system and hands free Nokia mobile phone, 6110. This time Nokia is doing a kind of Twingo again, Renault Brazil and Nokia Brazil have teamed up together to bring a automobile that has latest mobile technologies. The car is called Sandero Nokia will be the first to be produced in Renault Brazil that will have Nokia's complete mobility solution, including device, services & software and original accessories. With all this you also get the Nokia N95, with an integrated GPS, Nokia Maps, Blue tooth connection, a music player, large screen and high-end camera. All an all its an navigation come entertainment package. Also, it will be the first vehicle in Brazil, which will have factory equipped GPS, reports Nokia. With Twingo and Sandero, Nokia slowly is pushing its mobile phone and navigation tools in the automobile market.
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Nokia Sports Tracker is a GPS based activity tracker that runs on Nokia Smart Phones. Information such as speed, distance and time are automatically stored to your training diary, and on this site you can store and share your workouts and routes. Check out the Nokia Sports Tracker Demo Video:
[Video Via: JUSTAMP]
[Video Via: JUSTAMP]
Fugawi Touratel Systems have come up with a GPS marker based on the Web2.0 platform. Now what is the specialty of this Web 2.0 based service, this service will help your ordinary mobile phone to have GPS capabilities. More...You don't even have to worry if you phone is not GPS enabled....this service works through the internet...so just chill and let this systems take control of where you are going. You can also use this service to download high-resolution maps, urban and air photos. As of now it can only be used with Samsung, LG, Motorola and Sanyo....through Boost Mobile, Alltell and Sprint.
Nokia has launched a new handset in India, which is GPS enabled and has navigation functionality. Nokia 6110 will be available in India by end of 2007 or early next year. Now what is so special about this Nokia 6110 Navigator; the phone comes pre-loaded with maps of Delhi & NCR, Jaipur, Ahmedabad, Pune, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore and Hyderabad. Apart from this the phone allows the users to download maps of almost all countries all over the world. The phone also sports a one touch navigator key….so next time you go to the US don’t be tensed about getting lost, Nokia 6110 will definitely help you.
Nokia is already trying to strengthen its presence in the Internet services market and now, Nokia India Pvt. Ltd is all set to come up with services like gaming, music downloads and navigation...Read my full entry @ Fone Arena Blog.
Nokia has recently acquired the navigation guys, Navteq. Navteq shareholders recently announced that they were very happy with Nokia acquiring Navteq and they have given Thumbs-Up to this acquisition deal. Nokia acquired Navteq, Nokia came out with a co-branded car with navigation, Twingo, with Renault, very soon they are launching 10 handsets, which will be GPS enabled and now Navteq shareholders giving Thumbs-Up to Nokia…it seems, everything is going the Nokia way..the way they are NAVIGATING their company.
Nokia Sports Tracker is a GPS based activity tracker that runs on Nokia Smart Phones. Information such as speed, distance and time are automatically stored to your training diary, and on this site you can store and share your workouts and routes.
You just need to install the Sports Tracker Application, which is free of cost and you get going, this was first released in March for Nokia Smart Phones as a stand alone application.
Nokia Sports Tracker Beta is the name of the Online service for the Sports Tracker application. The application supports these phones. The Sports Tracker Application also recommends some accessories.
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You just need to install the Sports Tracker Application, which is free of cost and you get going, this was first released in March for Nokia Smart Phones as a stand alone application.
Nokia Sports Tracker Beta is the name of the Online service for the Sports Tracker application. The application supports these phones. The Sports Tracker Application also recommends some accessories.
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People from Nokia’s Location Based Services have confirmed that Nokia navigation phones will focus on pedestrians rather than drivers. By the way this, I think is Nokia’s way to increase its foot print in the Location Based Services Market…cause if you give it a thought there are more pedestrians in this world than vehicles. Also Nokia bought Navteq to get a form hold in the navigation services market. Nokia wants its users to add content to the maps. Way to go Nokia…but Navigation is the key…
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