Tuesday, 27 May 2008

Nokia Maps Ready for Download

Nokia Maps 2.0, the downloadable maps for select mobile devices has left beta stage and is now ready for consumers to download.

In this latest version, Nokia Maps has improved its optional Car Navigation, enhanced its pedestrian navigation, added multimedia city guides, now offers satellite images, and is sporting a redesigned user interface.

Nokia’s mapping and navigation solutions give people navigation features, local content and world maps directly on their mobile device, in a way that only connected devices can.

Since it was available in beta in February, the maps have been downloaded over 240,000 times.

Nokia Maps 2.0 uses vector maps provided by Navteq and TeleAtlas. The maps cover over 200 countries, with over 70 of them navigable. Maps can be downloaded over the air directly to selected devices or by using the Nokia Map Loader on a PC. A new beta version of the Nokia Map Loader is available on the Nokia Betalabs web site.

Nokia Maps 2.0 and the current commercial version of the Nokia Maps Loader is available for download today.