Nokia makes walk and drive navigation free on its smartphones, doubling size of mobile navigation market

Nokia makes walk and drive navigation free on its smartphones, doubling size of mobile navigation market

Espoo, Finland – Nokia has today announced plans to release a new version of Ovi Maps for its smartphones that includes high-end walk and drive navigation at no extra cost, available for download at www.nokia.com/maps. This move has the potential to nearly double the size of the current mobile navigation market. The new version of Ovi Maps includes high-end car and pedestrian navigation features, such as turn-by-turn voice guidance for 74 countries, in 46 languages, and traffic information for more than 10 countries, as well as detailed maps for more than 180 countries.

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Nokia to Offer Free Turn By Turn Navigation

In late 2009, Google announced that it would be giving free navigation on the Motorola DROID/MILESTONE in the North American region.

Now Nokia is also following Googles footsteps but at the same time taking it to the next level. Nokia is going to offer free turn by turn Navigation in 76 countries, in 46 languages and detailed maps for over 180 countries. Continue reading “Nokia to Offer Free Turn By Turn Navigation”

Motorola Set to Release 30 Smartphones in 2010!

Ever since, the release of the Motorola DROID/MILESTONE, Motorola seems to be getting things right with every release. Most recently being the release of the MOTOROI smartphone in Korea.

The year 2010 is expected to be another exciting year with Motorola said to release up to 30 smartphones in 2010. Continue reading “Motorola Set to Release 30 Smartphones in 2010!”

Sony Ericsson Kurara U5 makes official debut as the Vivaz with 8MP Camera and Symbian onboard

The highly anticipated Sony Ericsson Kurara just made its official debut as the SE Vivaz and its powered by Symbian s60 5th Edition and features a 8MP Camera which is capable of HD Video Recording.  More pics after the jump Continue reading “Sony Ericsson Kurara U5 makes official debut as the Vivaz with 8MP Camera and Symbian onboard”

Download Skyfire 1.5 for Symbian S60 v3 and v5 phones

Skyfire just released an updated version of their browser for Symbian phones. You can download the version  1.5 of the Skyfire browser for both S60 v3 phones and S60 v5 touch phones. This update follows the launch of Skyfire 1. 5 for Windows Mobile in December 2009 Continue reading “Download Skyfire 1.5 for Symbian S60 v3 and v5 phones”

Samsung App Store Extends its App Store to Brazil and China

After its launch of App Store in UK, France and Italy last September and Germany and Singapore thereafter, Samsung Mobiles is now planning to extend its App Store to all its handset users in Brazil and China by Jan end or Early Feb 2010. Continue reading “Samsung App Store Extends its App Store to Brazil and China”

Samsung Announces New “Shark” Series of Mobile Phones

After the very successful Corby Series of Phone, Samsung has now launched a new series of Handsets called as “Shark” Series.

At the start, Samsung has launched 3 devices namely the Samsung Shark S3550, Shark S5350 and Shark S5550.

Samsung Shark S3550 is a slider device which features a 2″ QVGA Screen, inbuilt social networking apps, 2 megapixel camera, and support for Bluetooth 2.1, USB 2.0 and an expandable microSD memory card slot of 8GB memory.

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Rumor : iPhone 4 OS to bring Multitasking and System Wide Multitouch

BGR has managed to get some details about the upcoming iPhone 4.0 OS which you can see in the picture above  .   It might bring the much awaited feature – multitasking to the iPhone Continue reading “Rumor : iPhone 4 OS to bring Multitasking and System Wide Multitouch”