Nokia halts HERE maps development for Windows Phone, iPhone app arriving soon

One of the big advantages of Microsoft's Windows Phones would be no more, it seems, as Nokia said it will stop developing its HERE Maps suite for the Lumia handsets. The free offline voice-guided navigation was released as a dedicated app in the Play Store recently, and has amassed millions of downloads since. This should come as no surprise, since, unlike Google Maps, it lets you store country or regional maps on the device itself, instead of constantly relying on an Internet connection.

Originally Nokia planned to release HERE Maps for iOS by the end of the year, but is still ...



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