Nokia To Make GPS Navigation Free On Smartphones

mliu writes "In what is sure to be a blow to the already beleaguered stand-alone GPS market, Nokia, the global leader in smartphone market share, has released a fully offline-enabled free GPS navigation and mapping application for its Symbian smartphones. Furthermore, the application also includes Lonely Planet and Michelin guides. Unfortunately, the N900, which is beloved by geeks for its Maemo Linux-based operating system, has not seen any of the navigation love so far. With Google's release of Google Navigation for Android smartphones, and now Nokia doing one better and releasing an offline-enabled navigation application, hopefully this is the start of a trend where this becomes an expected component of any smartphone."

Comments

Re:Navigation on Nokia phones works very well

[pete6677]

Good riddance. TomTom = worst GPS ever!

Re:Non-smartphones went out years ago

[Hurricane78]

Well, you must understand, that all of your good arguments are completely pointless.

Because you’re arguing with a Apple fanboi. Their distortion bubble is stronger than any argument, and they just twist reality, until it fits. Because their whole self-respect is attached to reality with those twists. Cut them and... $unthinkableEvents. (This is not meant to be mean. It’s just the psychology of how this works.)

So you’re fighting windmills. ^^

Nobody with a stable stand in reality did disagree with you in the first place. :)