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Nokia to Launch Free Maps App with Offline Mode and Transit Directions for iOS
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"The application is scheduled to be available for free download from Apple's App Store in the coming weeks."
i love nokia maps
Been a Nokia fan all my life till the Apples came dropping in and they decided to add a window to their nokia wall.
Nokia maps is the best thing ever.
Thank you Nokia
PS - nokia, i wish u put android on ur cool hardware , that will cause a major change in the market.
Been a Nokia fan all my life till the Apples came dropping in and they decided to add a window to their nokia wall.
Nokia maps is the best thing ever.
Thank you Nokia
PS - nokia, i wish u put android on ur cool hardware , that will cause a major change in the market.
I have been using the Nokia Maps on my Nokia Lumia 800 for a while. It really is the best offline navigator you can get on a phone.
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Ha! "Apple has been working to improve its in-house Maps app launched as part of iOS 6, following significant criticism of the app's features and accuracy." Not round here it isn't. Can't find Earls Court Exhibition centre (one of the biggest in London), is useless for finding almost any address, and satellite imagery coverage is still dire. There's no way that it's going to get any better without spending some serious money and acquiring the info/data. Waiting for us to do it is just going to annoy more and more people - and annoy some onto other platforms. Grrrr. Halfbaked Fail.
You mean the one I just found on Apple Maps? 34 Warwick Road Kensington England SW5 9 UK.
Which by the way is the EXACT same result you get when you use Google Maps.
Talk about full of it.
Apple Maps in getting better for vanilla address searches. But for, say, finding the nearest Indian Restaurant from your current location you're still likely to get shown something in another country.
If the Nokia app eases the pain of losing the perfectly good Google Maps app then I'm all for it.
If the Nokia app eases the pain of losing the perfectly good Google Maps app then I'm all for it.
More detailed information at Nokia's blog.
From what I can gather, it appears to be lacking turn-by-turn driving navigation (only turn-by-turn walking navigation). Public transportation and driving seem to be limited to iOS 5 style navigation instructions.
From what I can gather, it appears to be lacking turn-by-turn driving navigation (only turn-by-turn walking navigation). Public transportation and driving seem to be limited to iOS 5 style navigation instructions.
Seems a lot better to me - almost everything near me it found perfectly, even throwing an obscurity at it. Plus all the pins were dead on. Most Apple Maps pins are either miles off or not quite right (wrong side of road, 100 metres out)
Cool. ive seen Navteq cars riding around Tallahassee for a couple of weeks now. Nokia maps coming to iOS is great news considering all the good reviews Ive heard of them in the past.
I'd guess it'd be plenty warm (and sweaty) with Ballmer.
*ick*
Jokes aside, I'm glad Nokia's putting their map solution out there as both a webapp and native app.
Navteq's been doing this stuff well for ages.
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Funny. A week ago, I've used Navigon, which proudly announces its Navteq maps, and it told me to turn left into a one way street in the wrong direction.
Given the tragical situation with iOS6 maps, I am pretty sure most people wouldn't hesitate spending a buck on a good navigation App (superior to Apple maps anyway).
And since I've only heard good feedback on maps which Nokia equips their Lumia's with, if the iOS version is gonna be the same, i'm sold.
Just a thought: If Nokia decided to sell the app for $1.99, would it save them from bankruptcy?
And since I've only heard good feedback on maps which Nokia equips their Lumia's with, if the iOS version is gonna be the same, i'm sold.
Just a thought: If Nokia decided to sell the app for $1.99, would it save them from bankruptcy?
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It seems that the loser on all these map chaos is going to be Google. Losing Google map on IOS does not seems to slow down IOS device (Iphone 5, Ipod Touch 5, Ipad Mini, and Ipad 4 sales all seems fine). And Google lost the revenue from Google map on IOS device. And now that Nokia map come in, it will relieve the pressure on Apple map team. Apple map can stay on the background. Nokia map will gain users and benefit from the chaos... What does it leave Google map in the future? The only alternative seems to be staying in the Android environment right now.
Ha! "Apple has been working to improve its in-house Maps app launched as part of iOS 6, following significant criticism of the app's features and accuracy." Not round here it isn't. Can't find Earls Court Exhibition centre (one of the biggest in London), is useless for finding almost any address, and satellite imagery coverage is still dire. There's no way that it's going to get any better without spending some serious money and acquiring the info/data. Waiting for us to do it is just going to annoy more and more people - and annoy some onto other platforms. Grrrr. Halfbaked Fail.
Agreed. I've tried to put our London company on the Apple map for months now via 'reporting a problem' link in the app. I think this functionality must be completely ignored on the Apple part because our company is still unavailable to find, despite being registered on Yelp and everywhere else forever...
WHY can't Apple issue an open tool like Google Places, where users could put their businesses and all other POIs for them for free? Heck, Apple fans would probably fix the whole world in two weeks
Been a Nokia fan all my life till the Apples came dropping in and they decided to add a window to their nokia wall.
Nokia maps is the best thing ever.
Thank you Nokia
PS - nokia, i wish u put android on ur cool hardware , that will cause a major change in the market.
I wish the bean counters at Nokia had the vision of where the mobile tech was headed and adapted to it quickly with Symbian S60 and then Meego instead of Android or Windows.
Nokia was once the best you could buy, especially their N and E series!! No one could match their hardware, but their software [ OS ] kept lagging behind the times!
They, unfortunately, deserved what they got because of their complacency !!!
It can't be web-based, since it will supposedly work offline.
Um ... HTML5 supports cached data so this can work within Safari directly. Alternatively the application can be a straight up IOS app using Webkit and be approved yet using data from an HTTPS or other secure method to acquire data into the iOS app. We'll see when its launched and picked apart.
FYI: off-topic only on HTML related ... RIM's BB10 Browser in their beta and SDK is fully created in HTML5 code.
There's no such correlation.
Facebook had an HTML5 based app until recently and then switched to a native app. Both were regular apps that needed to be approved.
No by doing a real app. Why Google is ********* about with the app in development still is beyond me.
So you can link to the posts where you saw this coming right? I'm sure your not just another "Monday morning quarterback".