Nokia Drive and Maps on Lumia 800 Windows Phone Mango

Nokia Drive and Maps on Lumia 800 Windows Phone Mango

Noah goes hands-on with the new Nokia Windows Phone Mango phones, and gets a demo of Nokia Drive and Nokia Maps for WP 7 Mango.

Emily brought you the news from earlier this week that Nokia officially launched the first two devices of the "Espoo Comeback Tour 2011, Sponsored by Microsoft." The Lumia 800 and 710 Windows Phone handsets mark the global mobile giant's official entree into the brave new version of a world they once dominated: Smartphone sales. We all know how Nokia lost their way in the wake of the iPhone and all the Androids that followed, failing to come up with a truly worthy response to the touchscreen craze until it was literally too late. Nokia's first Nokia-worthy all-touch device, the N9, was dead before anyone could send it a text, thanks to the now defunct MeeGo platform upon which it was built. Continue reading at: http://tchno.be/u7KkHz

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[BreadForButter]

hey whats happening everybody, I'm Noah and i don't have hair.

[pa3kj0shua]

Nokia didn't failed by choosing Windows Phone OS over Android. It's way more better (And not laggy)

[MrSBjornberg]

Lumia 800 does not support teatering, sic.

[ThePASBERUK]

Nokia makes windows phone more awesome

[InvisibleYetVisible]

@riddlethejoker Bahaha you silly cunt are you serious? Nokia Maps has been around for years. In fact, its been around since before Android was an operating system lol my word you stupid twat. You need to read up before opening your mouth. If anything, Google Maps stole the idea for OTA mapping off Nokia, who'd been doing it for years. Geeze. love Android, my phone is an SGS, but seriously, fanboys shut the fuck up. I have an old 5800 somewhere and the Sat Nav is better than ANY Android! Fact!!

[pennjersey83]

Nokia stepping up big time

[RueDuMilieu]

i would like to have available topographical maps. This would be very nice to combine driving maps and if you're on vacation (hiking, bicycling, moutainbike etc.) you could use topographical maps from navteq. (at best this feature costless, or as downloadable apps).

[FedericoLov]

@cirkusarena OMFG they must be kidding!

why on earth would they want to ruin a product that is actually useful for those who travel???

[cirkusarena]

@FedericoLov Wrong. Nokia maps on WP7 does not work without a data connection. It does on Symbian, but for some weird reason Nokia decided to step backwards with this version of drive. Even the most recent update (2 days ago) didn't include the promised offline navigation feature.

[ThatSecondDude]

you got me there. but I've been using navigation on my android phone for over a year now. never really an issue where I can't get data connection unless it's in the mountains.

[ThatSecondDude]

@premclement actually it does come with navigation. see: "google navigation"

it says it's in beta but it actually comes with every android phone already built in.

[sKunKeNsTeiN]

I'm very frustrated at the fact that the maps is different on all 3 OSs. Symbian version of the maps seems to be the best. The voice can dictate the names of the street, there's speed camera and everything. WP version seems to look ok, but the Meego version is utter crap compared to the symbian version. Why can't they just make every version of Maps like the Symbian version