The Nokia Lumia 620 also provides access to the world's best maps and location experience, including Nokia Maps, Nokia Drive, Nokia Transport and the exclusive Nokia City Lens.
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Available with Nokia Maps, Nokia Drive, Nokia Transport and Nokia Music, people can also choose from thousands of apps in the Windows Phone Marketplace to further personalize the experience.
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In addition, the Nokia Lumia 822 comes with Nokia City Lens, the latest addition to the Nokia location suite and the start of a new augmented reality experience that also enhances Nokia Maps.
The crew in Espoo has pitted Nokia Maps from the Lumia 920 against both Apple's equivalent as well as Google Maps -- and to no one's surprise, Nokia's own platform comes out on top.
In addition to built-in wireless charging, the Nokia 920 also comes with Nokia City Lens, the latest addition to the Nokia location suite and the start of a new augmented reality experience that also enhances Nokia Maps.
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Rather, as far as product went, Nokia would differentiate with its own apps, many of which were tied to services, such as Nokia Maps, Nokia Drive, Nokia Transit, Nokia Music (which provides ad-free streaming radio) and the augmented reality app City Lens.
"While we're improving Maps, you can try alternatives by downloading map apps from the App Store like Bing, MapQuest and Waze, or use Google or Nokia maps by going to their websites and creating an icon on your home screen to their web app, " he added.
The search giant also faces another related challenge - Amazon has opted to pre-load a Nokia-powered Maps app on its Android-based Kindle Fire tablets.
Case in point is Windows Phone, as Microsoft has just announced that it's adopted traffic information from Nokia into the Maps app of its mobile OS. In addition to providing Windows Phone users in the US with more detailed overviews of traffic flows and congestion, the functionality will soon become available for many cities across the globe.
And unless it can pump out the Android version before Google Navigation goes global, there won't be much motivation to download a presumably fee-based (it certainly won't be free) Ovi Maps on the platform unless Android users are willing to pay to have Nokia's localized maps on the device instead of downloading them over the air as the Google offering requires.
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And just think about how beside himself Jobs would be if he was around to see Cook offer Google and Nokia ( NOK) Maps as alternatives while Apple gets its act together.
Begin to explore our capabilities at www.maps.nokia.com.
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In the Fire, Amazon defaults to Google search but offers a maps application from Nokia, not Google (Nokia owns NAVTEQ and considers it a key asset of its future location and commerce strategy).
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In a letter posted to Apple's home page he had suggested that users create a web app for either Nokia or Google's maps - but a native app, such as Here Maps, should offer a superior experience.
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However, indoor Google Maps only works on Android leaving Apple (WiFiSLAM), Microsoft (Bing Venue Maps), Nokia (In-Location alliance) and Blackberry looking for alternatives.
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Nokia brings real time, contact management maps, storefront, mobile payments and global experience.
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Nokia uses Navteq data to power the maps in its new phones equipped with GPS chips, including the N95 and 6110 Navigator.
Now the maps themselves move, with Nokia, Apple and Google constantly adding new names and locations to their respective databases.
On the software front, Nokia has armed it with several signature items, including Nokia Music, Drive, and Maps, but alongside this older Windows Phone build, we're a bit disappointed by the lack of a front camera and the miserly 2.2GB of non-expandable storage.
Many wonder whether Nokia and TomTom might restrict access to these maps, denying them to competitors.
If you truly need offline maps on iOS, alternatives like Nokia Here may be better for the task.
Others wonder whether Nokia will ever make much money on cell phone maps.
We'd pick it over Nokia Here in most cases, and usually Apple Maps.
Perhaps the move shouldn't come as a total surprise, as just last month, Microsoft revealed the inclusion of Nokia's "Where" platform within Bing Maps.
Mozilla thankfully has Nokia offering some support for the disconnected with its maps, but most "apps" (and Mozilla's insistence on calling them that is frustrating) will require an internet connection to function.
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From March 2010, all new Nokia GPS-enabled smartphones will come installed with the new Ovi Maps application and pre-loaded with local country map data and walk and drive navigation with access to location-aware Lonely Planet and Michelin travel guides at no extra cost.
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Google and Nokia are aggressively mapping venues and combined have nearly 40, 000 indoor maps worldwide.
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Besides, is Nokia really going to dedicate staff to Android development when its more advanced Ovi Maps still aren't available on its much touted Maemo MeeGo mobile computing platform?
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Those cellular carriers that want to provide maps, though, will have to buy them perhaps from Nokia.
Free access to Ovi Maps, the world's most comprehensive walk and drive navigation, to Nokia smartphones was only the start.
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