Nokia Drive Now Available to All Windows Phone 8 Devices

January 23rd, 2013 • • 4 comments

Nokia Drive beta is now available at the Windows Phone store for all Windows phone 8 users. It’s no longer exclusive to Nokia Lumia devices. HTC 8X and Samsung Ativ users can now use the app for free turn-by-turn voice-guided navigation and offline maps.

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Nokia Drive was a differentiating factor for Nokia Lumia devices. Now that it’s available to other Windows Phone 8 devices, more potential buyers might consider getting an Samsung or HTC Windows Phone instead.

This move isn’t surprising though. According to The Next Web, Nokia announced back in June 2012 that it would share Nokia Drive with rival manufacturers and upload it to the Windows Phone Store.

You can download Nokia Drive beta here. How do Nokia fans feel about this?

Photo: Kay Gaensler

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1410581346 Gustavo Puente

    Nokia for me, htc for my mom

    • http://twitter.com/markguim Mark Guim

      why not nokia for mom?

      • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1410581346 Gustavo Puente

        Because I need a cheap one for her, and the only one available is de HTC 8S, if Lumia 620 appears at the anounced price of 250 at amazon dot com I will consider it for her

  • bitflung

    great to see Nokia getting this out for other devices. this really is one of nokia’s best assets and it can go a long ways to strengthent he WP ecosystem.

    despite using android for my primary device, i keep a Lumia 800 in my car (sim free) for navigation. even without A-GPS (no sim, no data for ‘A’ part of A-GPS) it locks on faster and stronger than my android device – the offline nature of the maps ar great too, but the KILLER aspect is that nokia’s voice guidance and routing are simply BETTER than google’s.

    i hope microsoft is compensating nokia very well for this – sharing it supports the WP ecosystem but costs nokia a major differentiator in the same market.

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