Little by little, the alliance between the Finnish Nokia and the North American Microsoft is becoming palpable in tests that gradually bring us closer to the zenith of the process that began last February: the materialization of the agreement on the launch of the first mobile developed by the European firm with American software.
While we wait for that moment, we can start opening our mouths with the first effective steps on that road ahead. Thus, through the PocketNow site, we learned that Nokia had cast its first application developed expressly for Windows Phone mobiles (and by extension, for mobiles of the future line of the Espoo seal).
It is an application aggregator called App Highlights. The function of this application is to recommend to the user which are the most interesting applications with which to complete their library of utilities and downloadable games, and it can be obtained for free from the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace, or through this link (You must have the Zune program installed on your computer to access).
This will not be the only Nokia contribution that Windows Phone users will find in Microsoft's downloadable application store. A few months ago it was announced that the Marketplace would benefit from many of the utilities that are already in the Ovi Store or Nokia Store (as the company renamed it as part of an image integration strategy). And not only that.
In addition, Microsoft could use systems, applications and technologies that until now were exclusively offered by Nokia, so that Windows Phones can also integrate them. We speak, for example, of Nokia Maps, a very interesting point for Microsoft from the first moment. Currently, mobiles that use the platform designed in Redmond use Bing Maps for geolocation systems, presenting itself as an answer to the powerful Google Maps of Android.
However, Nokia's option is committed to not depending on the data connection, as Google's alternative does (although the most updated versions allow entire areas of certain areas to be cached), so that we can download entire maps, depending only on the GPS signal. Hence the interest of Microsoft to get this application for your system.
Image: PocketNow
