Friday, March 27, 2015
Nokia’s navigation app Here comes Tizen and Galaxy devices – Nutech
Nokia’s navigation app Here is also available for Tizen- and Galaxy devices.
from October
Samsung software licenses Lord, the same company behind the navigation app covered by Nokia.
As part of this deal is the Lord app released for all devices running Samsung’s Tizen OS or within the Galaxy product line. Galaxy users have to download the app itself, the Gear S smart watch is already installed by default.
Offline use
Here app for Tizen and Galaxy devices is both online and offline. Thus, users can download certain cards and then not dependent on a continuous Internet connection for navigation.
the app also supports synchronization between smartphone / tablet and smart watch. So it is possible to plan via the smartphone app a route and then via bluetooth by sending your smart watch it.
Here app is currently available for free for Windows 8.1 devices. There is also a web version that is accessible to everyone. The software offers maps for anything less than two hundred countries and access to about half of these, including the Netherlands.
Publication date
Here app for Galaxy and Tizen devices will be launched in October. Along with Gear S An exact date yet.
It is also not known whether Samsung to license Lord completely distances itself from Google Maps, competitive navigation app from Google. Missing The South Korean smartphone manufacturer is trying to Tizen too narrow. Its reliance on Google’s Android operating system
A spokesman for Lord let to TechCrunch already know that the app at a later time also comes to other devices, which probably means Android in general.
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By: NU.nl/Marcel Vroegrijk
Image: NU.nl
