07 September 2009

Video Intro Of The New
Finger Friendly Version Of Ovi Maps

Last week, at its annual conference in Stuttgart, Nokia released the new finger friendly version of Ovi Maps for touch devices that giving you one touch access to a variety of new features, content and services. With this latest version of Ovi Maps you can easily find your current location, places nearby, and addresses you are looking for, and save all your favourite places.

Furthermore it allows you to avoid the headaches and arrive at your destination on time, safe and sound with Drive and Walk, real-time car and pedestrian navigation and in case you would like to use all these features and services offline, you can easily preload the map data on your compatible Nokia device with Map Loader.

Whether it's for business or pleasure, once you reach your destination there are lots of things you can do to reduce the impact of your trip and Ovi Maps’ online service will help you to check out the weather forecasts and events around you.

This new version offers an access to premium travel content by Lonely Planet and Michelin for over 1000 destinations, and finds thousands of listings for sights, restaurants, hotels, shops, nightlife, and more.

Beside the new features and services the latest update also brings huge mountain of miscellaneous fixes and improvements here and there that will make the use of Ovi maps easier. First of all, application start up is faster and improved and there is a brand new interface with one touch access to content and services.

Furthermore there is a new and improved one-box search, new features in car navigation service (‘Drive home’ and ‘Track me’), new features in the pedestrian navigation service (‘Walk home’ and ‘Track me’) and new text-to-speech for voice guidance in car and pedestrian navigation, currently available for English and German.

What’s more, this latest beta is the start of an even more social Nokia Messaging service whereby multiple social networking communities will be mobilized. This means that with Nokia Messaging you will be able to email, chat or surf your social networks for one fixed price so there will be no more surprises in your monthly statements.

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