Nokia Drive + Beta Now Available to All WP8 Users in US, Canada & UK

Nokia had announced some time ago that its Lumia exclusive Nokia Drive + application, will become available for all Windows Phone 8 users.

Now the beta version of the Nokia Drive + application has become available for free for all devices based on Windows Phone 8. At the moment this possibility is limited to users who reside in the USA, Canada and UK. 

Engadget promotes Nokia Drive as “the best you are going to find on a phone right now" navigation app

Nokia Drive was recently updated to version 3.0, bringing new and interesting features like:

• The application will calculate routes based on driving style
• Detection of real-time traffic, with dedicated live tile
• Calculation of the route based on traffic
• Automatic determination of the time of the day, with subsequent change in the combination of the colors of the maps
• Manual adjustment paths
• Lists of favorite routes off-line with the ability to "pin" as the Live Tile Home

Here you can find a thorough review of the Engadget team with a lot of videos that label the Nokia Drive as "the best you are going to find on a smartphone at this time. "

Nokia Drive 3.0 is now available for Lumia smartphones and brings many new goodies

Nokia unveiled the Nokia drive app future upgrade for Windows Phone series devices in February at the MWC.But for now is only available for Nokia Lumia devices. Nokia Drive 3.0 brings a lot of changes in the application, and the largest is an intelligent monitoring your movement and your application will be able to recommend the quickest route to your destination or redirect you to the fastest route, depending on road conditions

Nokia Drive with turn-by-turn directions will be available on all Windows Phone 8 devices

Among the news more or less satisfactory spread a few hours ago at Developer Summit is also the one on Nokia Drive that's incredible, is available on all future Windows Phone device 8.

The application for GPS navigation from Nokia, therefore, will be the default on the Microsoft software platform, and ensure all users location services and voice guidance in over 110 countries, even while offline.

The Nokia maps supplied by Navteq, is currently the most complete than that offered by other smartphone manufacturers. E 'can offer a complete usability in offline mode, a fast rendering system of maps (50 fps) and a low consumption of bandwidth, only 10% compared to traditional servers that provide these services on other platforms. 

Nokia Drive: Real Time traffic updates will come in selected cities

Nokia recently has updated its exclusive Nokia Drive to v.2.0 bringing completely offline GPS navigation.Now Nokia  has announced the arrival of a new update that implements real-time traffic updates.

Initially the service will be available in Delhi and Mumbai and covers a stretch of 1,500 km, the data collected comes from users of Nokia Maps that act as "traffic probes". Subsequently, this option will expand into other locations worldwide.

Nokia will display Drive traffic through a color coding of roads; green if traffic is flowing, yellow for moderate traffic and red for heavy traffic. The traffic updates will be updated every 2 minutes.

Via WMPU

Drive 2.0 with Nokia with completely offline GPS navigation available in the marketplace

Nokia Drive version 2.0 finally has been released and now is available for download from WP Marketplace.Nokia Drive is an app for car navigation with offline support complete without the need for a data connection with coverage of more than 100 countries on 6 continents. 

The Nokia Drive 2.0 includes the following changes:

• Completely offline browsing
• Notices of speed limits
• Advanced dashboard with more details and list of recent destinations.

The app, which is exclusive to Nokia handsets can be found at the Nokia corner of WP Marketplace

Via WPCentral

Nokia Drive 2.0 with full off-line GPS navigation coming next week

Nokia at Mobile World Congress 2012 has not only introduced the new series smartphones Lumia, Nokia has officially shown the first beta version of Nokia Drive 3.0 ( Nokia Nokia officially Drive 2.0 and shows the first beta of Nokia Drive 3.0 )


Finally, it seems that Nokia Drive, a GPS pre-installed on all Nokia Windows Phone devices, is coming in version 2.0 will offer users the navigation completely offline (in the version current must have a data network for the route calculation).


The news came via Twitter by Sander Teunissen, a sales manager at Nokia, who wrote that next week this new version will be released ,  the app will be arriving,not only with off-line mode, but also lane assistance.


Via WMPU

Nokia Drive 3.0 hands-on video

Nokia has just announced their Nokia Drive 2.0 update, how ever the version 3 is already in the works and was shown off to the Verge at MWC 2012.

The new version of the Nokia Drive will be able to learn your daily commute automatically, and provide free traffic updates, which can be used to do automatic route calculations based on accidents, delays and other traffic information.

Source TheVerge

Nokia: a survey to improve the functionality of Maps and Drive

Nokia Maps and Nokia Drive are two exclusive features of Nokia devices and the Finnish company is constantly looking for ways to improve them further. To do so he just asked people to collaborate, activating a survey that collects information considered by some to make the two software even more performance .

Despite the profound transformation that is affecting phase for several months, the Finnish brand, its software designed for satellite navigation services are a strong point that seems to remain unchanged regardless of platform. Whether it's Symbian or Windows phone, the Nokia high experience, thanks to the contribution of Navteq, made it possible to offer users what they can still be considered the best navigation software out-of-box mobile devices.

Nokia Maps (formerly known as Ovi Maps) and Nokia Drive (the GPS navigation software dedicated to the new Windows Phone Lumia) are covered by the survey to which you may participate in connecting to this address. The questions answered (in the form anonymous) in minutes, providing a useful contribution to the Finnish.

Nokia did minor update to the Nokia Drive

Nokia has recently pushed the update to its Nokia Drive, thereby increasing the version number 1.1.0.1501. No note, however, changes have been added in the description of the application. It does not know what has changed in the first glance.

Basically, one would think it was the update supposed to bring Nokia Drive navigation even without an Internet connection but it is not the case. Some members of the site have verified this effect by disabling Internet connections and data (manually and not via the flight mode which also disables the GPS chip), it does not work yet.In the end, we only know that these minor corrections, perhaps improving the performance and speed of Nokia Location Based Drive. 

Note that this shows that the Finnish firm follows good application and that the long-awaited offline navigation should not wait too long

Via:Monwindowsphone

Nokia Drive gets a minor update - updated to v1.1.0.1501

Nokia has just pushed out a new update to their Nokia Drive app which brings it up to version 1.1.0.1501.

As for the changes, normally the update tells you if there is any but sometimes they don’t. Here, the change is a mystery,probably just minor bug fixes