[r4ph43l]

Nokia a annoncé la tenue d'un évènement demain jeudi 21 janvier 2010 à 9h30 à Londres (10h30 heure de Paris).
Sur Engadget, il est dit que cet évènement changera la façon dont les personnes utilisent leur mobile.
Il sera lié à Ovi.

Un compteur a été mis en place ayant la particularité de montrer le public présent, et des membres de Planète Nokia ont été remarqués par Nokia, à savoir :
Phil The WebSurfer
SlipKoRnSaad
Lifeblogger
Greg de Symbian France

Peut être que d'autres m'ont échappés.

Le site ici : http://events.nokia.com/countdown/
Un article sur cet évènement sur Symbian France ici : http://www.symbianfr...-pour-ce-jeudi/

[fifuno]

Ah tiens c'est amusant qu'ils aient été mis parmi le public

Mais ça veut dire qu'ils ont été invités quelque part ?

[r4ph43l]

Pour certains oui, mais pas tous.
Greg de Symbian France oui, mais pas Lifeblogger a priori.

[Jacques]

Nokia to offer free navigation today!

Citation

Nokia will offer free navigation on its smartphones around the world, following a similar move from Google the San Francisco Chronicle reported on Thursday, citing the Finnish company.

Google started in late 2009 to offer free navigation on Motorola’s Droid model smartphones in the North American market.

“Nokia used to charge for navigation packages that included turn-by-turn directions. That all goes away now. Now you can get turn-by-turn directions covering 74 countries in 46 languages as well as detailed maps for 180 countries,” the report said.

Nokia offering free navigation on some 20 million smartphones is set to hurt key players on the global navigation market, including TomTom and Garmin. Nokia was not immediately available for comment.

[Via] – [Via]
http://www.ustream.t...m_medium=social
Update: Direct from the press release, view the live stream here

Nokia to offer free navigation today!

Update 2: ITS OFFICIAL! Nokia Maps goes freeware, and its already available at software update. Supported devices are Nokia N97 Mini, Nokia 5800, Nokia 5800 Navigation Edition, Nokia E52, Nokia E55, Nokia E72, Nokia 5230, Nokia 6710 Navigator, Nokia 6730 Classic and Nokia X6.

Until today, Navigation has been kept in the hands of the few. Today that changes. We realised that billions of people around the world already have mobile phones that are perfectly suited to delivering Navigation. So we’re going to let them do that. From this day on, Navigation on your Nokia, with Ovi Maps, will be free for everyone, everywhere, to get people to the places they love. Now, and forever.

http://dailymobile.s...ree-navigation/

http://dailymobile.s...igation-market/

[Phil The WebSurfer]

fifuno, le 20 janvier 2010 - 23:55, dit :

Mais ça veut dire qu'ils ont été invités quelque part ?

Oui c'est cela

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La grosse grosse news du jour : Nokia Maps devient gratuit, plus de licence a payer !!!!!!!!!!!

Citation

Nokia makes walk and drive navigation free on its smartphones, doubling size of mobile navigation market

Espoo, Finland - Nokia has today announced plans to release a new version of Ovi Maps for its smartphones that includes high-end walk and drive navigation at no extra cost, available for download at http://www.nokia.com/maps. This move has the potential to nearly double the size of the current mobile navigation market. The new version of Ovi Maps includes high-end car and pedestrian navigation features, such as turn-by-turn voice guidance for 74 countries, in 46 languages, and traffic information for more than 10 countries, as well as detailed maps for more than 180 countries.

"Why have multiple devices that work that work in only one country or region? Put it all together, make it free, make it global and you almost double the potential size of the mobile navigation market ," explained Anssi Vanjoki, Executive Vice President, Nokia. "Nokia is the only company with a mobile navigation service for both drivers and pedestrians that works across the world. Unlike the legacy car navigation manufacturers, we don't make you buy maps for different countries or regions even if you're only visiting for a few days. We offer both navigation and maps free of charge, with all the high-end functionality and features that people now expect."

"The large-scale availability of free-of-charge mobile phone navigation offerings using high-quality map data will be a game changer for the navigation industry," said Thilo Koslowski, Vice President Automotive and Vehicle ICT at Gartner. "Such offerings will accelerate mass market adoption for navigation solutions and shift innovation focus to location-based services that go beyond traditional routing benefits."

For Nokia, removing the costs associated with navigation for drivers and pedestrians allows the company to quickly activate a massive user base to which it can offer new location features, content and services. This is part of Nokia's strategy to lead the market in mobile maps, navigation and location-based services. The move is also in line with Nokia's vision that the next wave of growth will be centered on the location-aware, social internet -- as the 'where' people are doing things becomes as important as the 'what' they are doing.

According to research firm Canalys, the number of people worldwide using GPS navigation on their mobile phones was approximately 27 million at the end of 2009. With this announcement Nokia potentially grows the size of this installed user base to about 50 million by enabling smartphone owners, with compatible devices and devices that will be made compatible shortly to activate free drive and walk navigation through a simple download of the new Ovi Maps. Nokia will further grow this base as it quickly adds more smartphones to the compatible devices list. Canalys also estimated in 2009 that the installed base of smartphones with integrated GPS was 163 million units worldwide, of which Nokia accounted for more than half (51%) having shipped cumulatively 83 million GPS devices.

"This is a game changing move. By leveraging our NAVTEQ acquisition, and our context sensitive service offering, we can now put a complete navigation system in the palm of your hand, wherever in the world you are, whenever you need it - and at no extra cost," continued Anssi Vanjoki. "By adding cameras at no extra cost to our phones we quickly became the biggest camera manufacturer in the world. The aim of the new Ovi Maps is to enable us to do the same for navigation."

By removing the added costs for consumers Nokia expects to fuel the take-up of mobile maps and navigation providing its ecosystem of partners with clear business opportunities:

- For operators:
Nokia believes it will enable them to offer their customers a complete car and personal navigation package as well as encourage the take-up of data plans. An additional benefit for operators is that Ovi Maps uses a unique hybrid technology that is optimized for use on a mobile network. By using advanced vector graphics, plus an intelligent combination of pre-loaded and online maps, the new version of Ovi Maps uses a fraction of the bandwidth of the bulky bitmap technology used by most mobile map providers.
- For 3rd party application developers:
Making navigation on a mobile as familiar as sending a text or taking a picture presents a huge opportunity as the customer base for additional location-based applications expands. Via the Ovi for Developers Beta Program, Nokia has given selected developers and publishers a preview of the Ovi APIs and SDK - Beta (software development kit) which will allow them to build such applications. These will then be made available through Ovi Store by Nokia.

Ovi Maps is immediately available for download for 10 Nokia handsets, including the popular Nokia N97 mini, Nokia 5800 XpressMusic and Nokia E72, with more Nokia smartphones expected to be added in the coming weeks. In the meantime, current owners of Nokia smartphones that are compatible with the new Ovi Maps can download it free of charge from http://www.nokia.com/maps.

From March 2010, new Nokia GPS-enabled smartphones will include the new version of Ovi Maps, pre-loaded with local country map data, with high-end walk and drive navigation and access to Lonely Planet and Michelin travel guides at no extra cost.

Ovi Maps covers more than 180 countries with car and pedestrian navigation for 74 countries in 46 languages and 6000 3D landmarks for 200 cities around the world. Lonely Planet and Michelin guides have information on more than 1,000 destinations globally.

More press materials are available at http://www.nokia.com/press as well as at http://events.nokia.com. Broadcast materials are available at http://digitalnewsroom.nokia.com.

Notes to editors:
Current list of compatible Nokia devices: Nokia N97 mini, Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, Nokia 5800 Navigation Edition, Nokia E52, Nokia E55, Nokia E72, Nokia 5230, Nokia 6710 Navigator, Nokia 6730 classic and Nokia X6. For the latest device list, please go to http://www.nokia.com/maps.

Data transmission charges may apply. Please contact network operator for information about the data transmission charges.

Source : Nokia Press

La nouvelle version de Nokia Maps est disponible pour les modeles cités ci dessus.

[KGB]

Que pour 10 modeles, rien pour Maemo non plus..

[Phil The WebSurfer]

D'autres modeles seront compatibles dans les semaines a venir.

Les futurs modeles seront equipés de cette version dès la commercialisation de ceux ci

[disizthesnake]

C'est une bonne chose pour Nokia effectivement. Je surveillerai cela, au cas ou je puisse tester la version des N97/5800 sur le Satio

[Phil The WebSurfer]

Pour resumer concernant cette nouvelle version :

- navigation routiere avec guidage vocal = gratuit
- navigation pietonne = gratuit
- infos traffic = gratuit (hors cout connexion data)
- services additionnels (meteo, michelin, lonely planet etc...) = gratuit (hors cout connexion data)

[Saga]

@KGB : d'après Greg de SF, le N97 sera mis à jour le 28 janvier avec la v21 qui apportera cette possibilité. Quant au N900 il le sera aussi.

Dispo pour mon X6 !



Màj en cours ...

[KGB]

Merci pour l'info Saga et PTWS, une très bonne nouvelle pour nous et pour doper la vente des Nokia aussi

[r4ph43l]

Oui, excellente nouvelle pour nous, et pour Nokia.
Comme ils disent : on ne fait pas payer pour photographier, on ne doit pas faire payer le GPS non plus.

[Alyster 972]

très très bonne nouvelle depuis hier !
mais bon... il faut quand même attendre si on possède un N900... dommage

[r4ph43l]

Ca ne change pas grand chose pour nous, on attendait déjà avant, car il n'y a pas encore de guidage vocal!