Nokia launches Nokia Drive app on Lumia 800

Nokia’s flagship Lumia 800 smartphone will arrive packing Nokia Drive among its glut of app goodies.

Nokia’s gunning for Android’s Google Maps with the free navigation app. Nokia Drive is powered by NAVTEQ, offers 2D or 3D views as well as voice-guided navigation for 69 million places.

Cleverly, you can also download maps to the phone – useful if you’re going abroad and want to avoid data roaming charges.

Between Nokia Drive and Android’s Google Maps services, TomTom and the other satnav manufacturers must be getting increasingly nervous.

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Andrew writes features, news stories, reviews, and other pieces, often when the UK home team is off-duty or asleep. I'm based in Chicago with my lovely wife, amazing son, and silly cats, and my writing about games, gadgets, esports, apps, and plenty more has appeared in more than 75 publications since 2006.

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