Nokia to Offer Free GPS Navigation on Smartphones

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on January 21, 2010 - 12:35pm.

Espoo, Finland - Nokia (NYSE: NOK) on Thursday announced that it will offer a new, free satellite navigation service for its smartphones. The company said that its new Ovi Maps, which offers car and pedestrian navigation -- including turn-by-turn voice guidance -- for 74 countries in 46 languages, "has the potential to nearly double the size of the current mobile navigation market."

http://snipurl.com/u5ejw (Reuters)