The company
said on Tuesday that in the coming weeks it would release a maps app called
here in Apple’s App Store. It will be a
free download for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch owners. Nokia also said it would
release a toolkit for programmers to make Nokia-powered mapping apps for
Android phones. And it is forming a partnership with Mozilla, the browser
company, to develop location features for its new operating system, called
Firefox OS.
Nokia has
emphasized the power and thoroughness of its mapping database, which has
information on 200 countries, in an effort to distinguish its new Lumia smartphones
from the competition. For instance, when Apple’s new maps system turned
out to have some embarrassing lapses, Nokia published a blog post that
compared its maps with Apple’s and Google’s and, of course, concluded the Nokia
maps were better.
TECH360 Magazine
Correspondent
