http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/ Engadget Comments for Nokia offering free turn-by-turn navigation on smartphones globally (updated) http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/Jan 21st 2010 2:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/
Bye Garmin XT...Bye Google Maps.]]>Jan 21st 2010 3:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/Jan 21st 2010 4:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/Jan 21st 2010 4:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/
No quite a game changer, but good to see Nokia upping the ante.]]>Jan 21st 2010 4:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/
"Nokia will be demonstrating its reach by offering free turn-by-turn directions in 74 countries in 46 languages -- a move that should cover 20 million smartphones globally with Ovi Maps available in over 180 countries."

Say that again ?!?]]>Jan 21st 2010 4:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/Here is the link or Nokia's own page for the announcement and details.

http://events.nokia.com/ovimaps/index.html]]>Jan 21st 2010 4:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/
"Nokia will be demonstrating its reach by offering free turn-by-turn directions in 74 countries in 46 languages -- a move that should cover 20 million smartphones globally with Ovi Maps available in over 180 countries."

Basically means the standard Ovi Maps is in 180 countries.
The free turn-by-turn directions is in 74 of those countries.
Thus, 106 countries are covered by Ovi Maps but don't have free turn-by-turn directions support.

The confusion arises from 'a move that should cover'. ]]>Jan 21st 2010 6:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/
A challenger has appeared!]]>Jan 21st 2010 7:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/
I mean, WTF.]]>Jan 21st 2010 10:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/Jan 21st 2010 10:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/
Definitely a game changer and the reason why Nokia still gets mad props....OUTSIDE of the US & Canada... WORD UP!]]>Jan 21st 2010 2:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/Suddenly I think Nokia will still be the king of mobile phones... because of the free GPS guided navigation!]]>Jan 21st 2010 2:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/Jan 21st 2010 5:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/Jan 21st 2010 3:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/Jan 21st 2010 3:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/
Probably Microsoft .]]>Jan 21st 2010 6:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/Jan 21st 2010 5:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/Jan 21st 2010 3:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/
And it doesn't require a data connection.]]>Jan 21st 2010 3:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/
Tested it and it's even more reliable than TomTom, Navigon & German.]]>Jan 21st 2010 3:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/
Tomtom is hurting..stocks drops 3.7%

http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKLDE60K0JQ20100121]]>Jan 21st 2010 4:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/Jan 21st 2010 4:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/Jan 21st 2010 4:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/Jan 21st 2010 5:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/
its true, you wouldn't require data to access maps but you'd probably need data to access live weather, traffic, events updates.]]>Jan 21st 2010 5:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/
Ya but it navigates you up stairs and down stairs, it's trying to kill people in wheel chairs.]]>Jan 21st 2010 1:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/when I used the nokia 95 and paid for the service it was never as reliable as the free google maps]]>Jan 22nd 2010 11:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/Off to test it xD]]>Jan 21st 2010 3:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/Jan 21st 2010 3:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/
Yes, Nokia bought Navteq some time ago with something like 8 billion dollar price tag. Most thought it was expensive move for a business that doesn't really do that huge a profit. I thought back then that this is probably what they are after. Others will have really hard time competing against this.]]>Jan 21st 2010 7:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/Jan 21st 2010 3:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/
Wow, so all one has to do to get a comment down ranked is state an unpopular opinion, however true it may be. I always wondered...]]>Jan 21st 2010 3:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/Jan 21st 2010 3:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/Jan 21st 2010 3:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/
Actually, this gives me a lot more reason to consider the Nokia N900 now.]]>Jan 21st 2010 3:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/Jan 21st 2010 6:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/
Except they aren't offering it on the N900.

Try reading ALL the post.]]>Jan 21st 2010 8:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/
if GARMIN and all others were not going out of business with the same annoucement from google, they certainly are now!


thank you google for starting this, i love you!]]>Jan 21st 2010 3:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/I love you too ^_^]]>Jan 21st 2010 3:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/I love capitalism.]]>Jan 21st 2010 8:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/
I ordered my first Nokia smartphone just a couple of days ago. The timing couldn't have been better.

Thanks Nokia for the free gift!]]>Jan 21st 2010 10:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/Jan 21st 2010 3:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/Jan 21st 2010 3:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/
Oh absolutely.. Even the recent cold snap in the UK is directly because of the weather altering level of coolness that Apple inspires..

Meteors have been turned from collision with earth because that would harm the beauty that is Apple products.. ]]>Jan 21st 2010 5:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/
You honestly believe if Apple never came out with the iPhone that this still would have happened??? HAHAHA wow! somebody is drinking a little too much of the iHater koolaid. The iPhone is the biggest competition, the biggest competition the mobile phone market has ever seen to be honest, and carriers are desperate to try and lure as many stragglers as they can, thus free services. Verizon or any other carrier never would have even contemplated backing something like Android, staring point of free Google GPS, if it wasn't for Apple taking all the risk in trying to shift the powers a little between providers and makers and showing what a good device teamed up with a gorgeous UI can do for sales. With Apple dropping the first stone and creating a ripple effect I think it's almost fair to say every mobile phone feature/service/design/etc from here to the end of time will somehow have been influenced by iPhone. Whether you want to agree with that or not is totally up to you and your bias but that fact will always remain. ]]>Jan 21st 2010 5:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/
Apple had nothing to do with this.

It's all down to google.

When google started to offer google maps for free anybody offering maps for a price started to hurt. Only way to compete with somebody offering something for free is to do the same. With Nokia this was a no brainer as they own a map service provider. ]]>Jan 21st 2010 6:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/
Actually Nokia Maps existed as a free application before the iPhone was even announced. The only change from today is that they also made navigation free.

And Nokia's free services have nothing to do with US carriers.]]>Jan 21st 2010 7:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/Jan 21st 2010 11:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/21/nokia-offering-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-on-smartphones-globa/
How is Apple going to respond - do they own their own digital mapping company? ]]>Jan 21st 2010 11:40AM