Thread: Windows Phone 8 to use Nokia map data with built-in turn-by-turn navigation

You won't have to use a Lumia phone any longer to get Nokia's mapping expertise: Microsoft just announced that Nokia's map technology is being built into Windows Phone 8. Along with the requisite NAVTEQ map information, it'll carry many of the things that Nokia Drive users love so well, including offline map support, developer control over maps, and (you guessed it) turn-by-turn directions. That makes three major mobile platforms that have or will have driving directions baked in from the start -- it's now becoming par for the course rather than an advantage to lord over others.
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Windows Phone 8 to use Nokia map data with built-in turn-by-turn navigation originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 20 Jun 2012 12:44:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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