Nokia surprises by presenting its new maps experience that has Called Here (Aquí in Spanish). Although it seemed like the third man, not much going on currently against Apple or Google , the Finnish company has just stood up to at least what digital maps refers to And it has preferred to leave behind the model of exclusivity and bring your maps and location tools to other platforms through a renewed and interesting system.We explain it to you below.
Nokia Here is a service intended to provide more than just mapsAn issue in which Nokia already has a 20-year track record, something that It makes itself felt in the Nokia Maps application, which has a we alth of information and featuresas information on real-time traffic and the search for places But those ofEspoo have taken another twist and added new features, creating a much moreexperience complete to discover and get to know our surroundings and not only serve to search for streets
This all translates to Nokia Here, which has already been confirmed as an application for Apple devicesThus, in a couple of weeks we will be able to use both iPhone and iPad Use this tool to enjoy Nokia maps and its new features. One noteworthy fact is that the operation of Nokia Here is based on the cloud orInternet, therefore, having a user account, we will have all our configurations,collections and features both in the web version of Here , which is already available, as in our terminal.
Although it has not yet been possible to see any images of what this application will look like, Nokia ensures that functions as useful as the viewing of maps without Internet connection, the possibility of being guided step by step to our destinationas if it were a GPS, whether on foot or , information and public transport routes, and a long etceteraIn addition, it will have information on nearby places, being able to save them as favorites so as not to forget them, something very similar to what has already been seen in the lists ofestablishments Foursquare
But what's most amazing about Nokia Here, though not necessarily new, are its functions at street level and 3D maps And it is that Nokia has decided to integrate a level of vision at street level in the purest style Google Street View, allowing users to see 360-degree photographs and of specific points. And not only that. Nokia is also in the process of acquiring a company specializing in creating 3D maps like those presented in Apple Maps, so we can also enjoy this feature.
Users of Android devices, for their part, will have to wait for independent developers to decide to create own tools based on functions and features of Nokia Here To this end, Nokia will distribute a toolkit to create new applications through this new experience. Although we have already been able to see an example of this thanks to the video that we show you just below.
In short, if we already believed that the war of location tools and maps had started and ended with Google Maps as the winner after the disaster of Apple Maps, we were wrong. We should not underestimate Nokia and their extensive experience. Even more so knowing that Nokia Here will be integrated into the Mocilla operating system, known asFirefox OS, coming next year.It seems that this struggle has only just begun
