Durante el evento se presentaron nuevas experiencias y servicios Ovi, como Maps on OVI o Mail on Ovi, que convierten Internet en un entorno personalizado y mucho más móvil gracias al nuevo Nokia N97 diseñado para el mundo Web 2.0 Barcelona, 02 de diciembre de 2008– Nokia ha presentado hoy nuevas experiencias y servicios para desplegar todo el potencial de Internet en los dispositivos móviles convirtiéndolo de esta manera en un entorno más personal, social, instintivo, espontáneo y divertido. Para hacer posible todo esto, Nokia ha presentado el dispositivo multimedia Nokia N97 y los nuevos servicios de Ovi, que incluyen Maps on Ovi y Mail on Ovi. “Nos encontramos hoy a las puertas de un gran cambio en nuestra forma de conectarnos y relacionarnos entre nosotros y con nuestro mundo” ha afirmado el presidente y consejero delegado, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, en la inauguración de Nokia World 2008. Kallasvuo añadió que Nokia, con más de mil millones de clientes en todo el mundo, tiene la oportunidad de poner Internet al alcance de todos y en más lugares que cualquier otra compañía, y “esa es nuestra intención”. El alcance global de Nokia, incrementado con NAVTEQ y la lista de servicios Ovi, hacen que Nokia transforme Internet en un entorno más personal y relevante para nuestras vidas.Leer más

New version with Ovi integration offers 3D landmarks and other enhancements including online planning on the web December 2, 2008, Barcelona, Spain - Nokia has released the latest version of its award-winning mobile mapping and navigation service, Nokia Maps, as well as its personalized online mapping experience on Ovi by Nokia. This combination of Nokia Maps plus Ovi is the first free service that allows people to pre-plan their journey at home on their PC and synchronize with their mobile, giving access to pre-planned routes and favorite destinations while on the move. In addition, Nokia Maps has been updated to include a number of new features such as high-resolution aerial images, 3D landmarks for 216 cities and terrain maps, as well as a new route overview during routing and during Drive, the purchasable turn-by-turn car navigation guidance. "Nokia has clearly increased the usability of Maps, and now with the integration of Ovi services, the functionality of this service can also be seen," says Michael Halbherr, vice-president, Nokia location based experiences. "Enabling Nokia Maps the ability to synchronize my favorite places between my mobile and PC. becomes the main reason for anyone to switch from other personal navigation devices to Nokia Maps." Maps on Ovi is becoming more than just a mapping tool. Over the coming months, Maps will become a destination for people to save and organize places, pre-plan trips and post-edit them.Leer más

Updates include enhanced pedestrian navigation, new satellite images and support for integrated compass orientation

Espoo - Finland, Nokia today announced that its highly anticipated update for Nokia Maps has left beta stage and is now ready for consumers to download. Downloaded over 240,000 times since announced in February, Nokia Maps 2.0 has improved its optional Car Navigation, enhanced its pedestrian navigation, added multimedia city guides, now offers satellite images, and is sporting a redesigned user interface. Nokia’s mapping and navigation solutions give people navigation features, local content and world maps directly on their mobile device, in a way that only connected devices can. A partial list of the updated features in Nokia Maps 2.0 includes:

DRIVE: - Improved optional Car Navigation equals PND-level car navigation experience with faster routing. - Easy-to-use, updated User Interface features including a new navigation carousel with pre-defined navigation views - i.e. navigation, arrow, bird-eye. - Top-of-the-line navigation features: signposts, multi-stop route planner

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