wp7.5 Nokia Maps 2.0 for Windows Phone released

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Updated Nokia Maps gets more personal

Mapping apps are so popular that they may be considered as essential to a smartphone as telephony itself. But because they are taken for granted we often forget about the different options we can choose from. On Nokia Lumia, we believe for instance that Nokia Maps provides the best mapping experience. It?s available for download for free from the Nokia collection on the Windows Phone Marketplace exclusively for Nokia Lumia.

Nokia Maps is also constantly updated with regular releases that introduce new features and improvements. Today we are in fact making your mapping experience more personal with your photos, places reviews and favourite synchronisation.

Trade your experiences

One of the best ways to make a difference in location-based services is posting photos and reviews: that?s how you remember your visit to a place and how you contribute to its story. With Nokia Maps you can now add a photo to a place description and leave a relevant review directly from your Nokia Lumia. Your contributions will be then available to you and everyone else on Nokia Maps and on maps.nokia.com.

Source/full article: Conversations by Nokia

[ahhell]

"exclusively for Nokia Lumia"

This part sucks.

[Miuku.]

Nokia is ****ing on all of their old customers without any sorrow. Good thing I don't have to work with them any more, ever.

[efjay]

"exclusively for Nokia Lumia"

This part sucks.

Its called "Nokia Maps"?

[Mohitster]

Its called "Nokia Maps"?

Yes.

[Detection]

Its called "Nokia Maps"?

lol

Maps are not as good as others I've used, zooming in on my house is very low rez, but I just added a couple of reviews for places nearby which was a bit of fun, might add some photos later

[Mohitster]

"exclusively for Nokia Lumia" This part sucks.

It sucks but one can't really blame them. It's a custom app developed by them for their own devices just like so many Android device makers do. And it makes economic sense to them just like it does to Android device makers.

[jakem1]

Personally, I prefer the look and performance of the built in Bing Maps to the Nokia maps. However, I believe Nokia have better data underpinning their maps. The two companies are supposed to be working to merge their mapping solutions together so the best outcome would be maps that look like Bing Maps with Nokia's data used for routing, POIs, layers, etc.

I also think that Nokia Drive maps would be excellent if they looked more like Bing Maps. At the moment they look a bit too basic.

EDIT: Actually, I take back one thing I said. The performance of the new version is outstanding. Pinch to zoom feels a bit sticky but the application pans and refreshes really quickly. I'd say it's on par with Bing Maps now.