Hands On With Nokia’s Here Maps For iOS: Good Stop-Gap Until Native Google Maps [Video]

Darrell Etherington

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Tuesday, November 20th, 2012

We told you about Nokia Here’s iOS launch this morning, something Nokia CEO Stephen Elop promised us last week, but now we’ve had the chance to actually put it through its paces. Here’s a short demo video of Nokia Here doing its thing on an iPhone 5, including video of how the different map views work, place detail information and the much appreciated transit directions. As you can see, it’s good, but not entirely without its own rough edges.

 


Company: Nokia
Website: nokia.com
Launch Date: 1865
IPO: August 7, 1994, NYSE:NOK

NOKIA is a Finnish multinational communications corporation. It is primarily engaged in the manufacturing of mobile devices and in converging Internet and communications industries. They make a wide range of mobile devices with services and software that enable people to experience music, navigation, video, television, imaging, games, business mobility and more. Nokia is the owner of Symbian operation system and partially owns MeeGo operating system.

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