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Nokia Maps 2.0 now available to mainstream marketBy Sindre Lia, Thursday 22 May 2008
A range of enhancements have been made to Nokia Maps, and now version 2.0 is available for consumers to download.

Nokia today announced that its update for Nokia Maps has left beta stage and is now ready for consumers to download. Downloaded over 240,000 times since announced in February, Nokia Maps 2.0 has improved its optional Car Navigation, enhanced its pedestrian navigation, added multimedia city guides and is sporting a redesigned user interface. Satellite images with hybrid rendering overlays for selected cities worldwide are also now available.

Updated user interface features to the optional Car Navigation include a new navigation carousel with pre-defined navigation views (i.e. navigation, arrow and bird-eye) and a multi-stop route planner.

For pedestrian navigation, Nokia Maps 2.0 now provides information about surrounding buildings, streets and parks and, if the device supports it, notifies the direction you are walking. The upcoming Nokia 6210 Navigator should offer a built-in compass to utilize the latter feature.

Nokia Maps 2.0 uses vector maps provided by Navteq and TeleAtlas, which can be downloaded over the air directly to selected devices or by using the Nokia Map Loader on a PC. Nokia Maps 2.0 and the current commercial version of the Nokia Maps Loader are freely available for selected devices.
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Nokia N95 8GB NAM 85% $650Unlocked
Nokia N95 80% $530Unlocked
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Apple iPhone 75% $400AT&T
RIM BlackBerry Curve 8330 (Sprint) 74% $280Sprint
Helio Ocean 72% $200Helio
RIM BlackBerry Curve 8330 (Verizon Wireless) 69% $200Verizon Wireless
RIM Blackberry Curve 64% $200AT&T
Nokia N76 60% $500Unlocked
Motorola Q9m (Verizon Wireless) 58% $130Verizon Wireless
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