New service from Nokia goes live in Jordan

(MENAFN Press) Nokia’s Jordan Ovi Maps featuring Drive and Walk Navigation, Discover and Share

Amman, December 2009 - Nokia, the world leader in mobility, today announced the introduction of new services for the Jordanian market using the latest Ovi Maps application. Nokia's maps and navigation solution gives consumers navigation features, local content and world maps directly on their mobile device.

“By taking the navigation experience out of the car and into the pockets of the consumers, Nokia is enabling Jordanian consumers to explore and discover,” said Bruce Howe, Head of Marketing – Nokia Levant. “Having Ovi Maps on their device gives our consumers a new sense of their surroundings, with the possibility to discover new places and share them with their friends using SMS, MMS or Bluetooth.”

Ovi Maps application for your Nokia device is enhanced through additional features and services, opening up a new world of possibilities with better maps than never before: high resolution satellite and terrain maps, rotation, tilting, night view and fly-overs and fly-throughs. Nokia’s Jordan Ovi maps will be available during the month of November.

Walk from one place to another using WALK, the pedestrian navigation with routing optimized for those on foot, providing better orientation in a city or outdoors.

Or use DRIVE, the fully fledged world class navigation system. The navigation efficiently takes you from A to B with visual turn-by-turn guidance. It helps you to locate yourself by giving information about the surrounding buildings, roundabouts and streets and in newer handsets points the direction in which you are walking using the handset’s built in compass for orientation.

Ovi Maps uses vector maps are provided by Navteq, which was acquired by Nokia in end of 2007. The map data of Jordan, will be offered free of charge and includes detailed Road coverage of 28,621 Km covering 100 municipalities, including street names and street directions.

By this, Nokia has 100 percent of the total road network of Jordan covered including all the major highways connecting Jordan’s major cities. With 13.500 Points of Interests including hotels, restaurants, places of worship, shopping malls, petrol stations and many others, Nokia consumers have will explore Jordan in a new and exciting way.

Maps can be downloaded free of charge over the air directly to selected devices or by using the Nokia Map Loader on a PC.

Later in November 2009, Nokia will launch the ‘Get to good things’ website to Jordanian consumers, so that they can add their personal POI’s from Jordan and share with the world. The URL is http://maps.ovi.com/goodthings

Nokia is the world largest global GPS devices manufacturer is rolling-out Ovi services across the world, “We are continually ensuring that these services are delivered to Nokia users in the region in a manner that is relevant and easy to access. With Maps and Navigation, we have delivered voice-guided navigation in a number of locally relevant languages to enable our consumers to navigate in their native language wherever they are in the world. With these latest services Nokia is fulfilling its promise to provide Jordanian consumers with unique navigation solution wherever they are in the world”, said Mohamed El Sheakh, Services Marketing Manager, Nokia Middle East & Africa.

Ovi Maps for mobile is enhanced through additional features and services, opening up a new world of possibilities with:

•Better maps than ever before with hi-res satellite and terrain maps
•Enriched Global POI information by Lonely Planet, Michelin and Wcities.
•Global Weather service with 24h and 5-day forecasts.
•Walk from a place to another - easy to use pedestrian navigation with routing optimized for pedestrians for better orientation in a city or anywhere outdoors.
•Drive with enhanced safety – car navigation with enhanced safety features.