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February 25th, 2010, 12:05
http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/02/500x_nokia-maps.jpgWhy'd Nokia give away Ovi Maps (http://gizmodo.com/5453520/nokia-is-nok+nok+nokking-on-tomtoms-door-with-free-turn+by+turn-navigation) for free to other OS users? Unless they're...planning an Android phone themselves? We've already heard whispers (http://gizmodo.com/5415964/nokia-to-shoot-itself-in-the-foot-and-release-just-one-maemo-device-in-2010) they're to release just one Maemo device this year—and they can't possibly survive on Symbian along.
Greig Williams, who is Nokia's general manager for the Alps and South East Europe, told the Austrian newspaper Die Presse that porting Ovi Maps (http://gizmodo.com/tag/ovimaps/) to Android and Windows Mobile (http://gizmodo.com/tag/windowsmobile/) "will be the next step."
It'd be crazy of them to release their free turn-by-turn navigation service on other operating systems, unless it was all some grand scheme to woo consumers back to Nokia, so I'm reading into Williams's comments that Nokia's working on devices running Android and Windows Mobile. There. I said it. Perhaps it's not the end of Nokia (http://gizmodo.com/5418797/nokia-to-halve-smartphone-production-in-2010-official-suicide-watch-starts-now) after all. [Die Presse (http://diepresse.com/home/techscience/mobil/541704/index.do?seite=2) via Electricpig (http://www.electricpig.co.uk/2010/02/25/nokia-ovi-maps-on-android-the-next-step/)]
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Greig Williams, who is Nokia's general manager for the Alps and South East Europe, told the Austrian newspaper Die Presse that porting Ovi Maps (http://gizmodo.com/tag/ovimaps/) to Android and Windows Mobile (http://gizmodo.com/tag/windowsmobile/) "will be the next step."
It'd be crazy of them to release their free turn-by-turn navigation service on other operating systems, unless it was all some grand scheme to woo consumers back to Nokia, so I'm reading into Williams's comments that Nokia's working on devices running Android and Windows Mobile. There. I said it. Perhaps it's not the end of Nokia (http://gizmodo.com/5418797/nokia-to-halve-smartphone-production-in-2010-official-suicide-watch-starts-now) after all. [Die Presse (http://diepresse.com/home/techscience/mobil/541704/index.do?seite=2) via Electricpig (http://www.electricpig.co.uk/2010/02/25/nokia-ovi-maps-on-android-the-next-step/)]
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