Last week Nokia introduced “Ovi“, their new extended platform for mobile services.
Ovi is supposed to offer a consolidated web portal to already existing Nokia mobile services, like music, games, and maps. Plus they plan to enable access to users’ existing social network, communities and content.
Nokia’s aim is to bring even more Internet based services to Ovi in the coming months, so we can all be curious.

As Nokia is offering a map application for their phones to European customers already this will now be integrated into the new home.
So far the Nokia Maps application offers services like,
maps of 150 countries, navigation and routing, supporting internal as well as external GPS receivers
3D route guidance of voice-guided navigation (at additional costs),
and city guides.

As Ovi means “door” in Finish you can see their ambition: an easy to use one-stop place on the web for users to access their Nokia services.

The Ovi is not yet open. But I’ll post again about it once it is.

I saw the breaking news first on the GPS Tracklog and thanks very much for already extracting the most interesting bits from the official press release!
TomTom is hoping to use their “installed user base of over 10 million GPS devices to effectively operate as map surveyors in an automatic and simple way“.

I’m wondering how easy it will really be to send back feedback to TeleTomTom, especially as user will somehow need to categorize their feedback using the TomTom device while they are experiencing errors or possible improvements of the map data. I’m also wondering how automatic this feedback will be.

This is exciting news and definitely a story to keep watching in the coming months. Let me know what you think of this deal!

Feel free to read the official joint press release of Tele Atlas N.V. and TomTom.