Nokia is buying Navteq
 

I am not sure how true this is, but the people over at Engadget are pretty good at getting good information before blogging. They are reporting that Nokia pruchased navteq a big mapping company.

I am not sure they will enhance the N800, but any new products would benefit from this incorporation.

Re: Nokia is buying Navteq
 

It was formally announced today.

This is a good fit. I like it. :)

Also, analysts are beating up NOK stock for it...

Re: Nokia is buying Navteq
 

They announced their intention to purchase the company. It's not bought yet as far as I know.

Re: Nokia is buying Navteq
 

I guess this just depends on how technical you want to be. The acquisition has been approved by the board of directors of both companies and all that still needs to occur is the actual closing. My understanding is that this means it is essentially a "done deal"

Re: Nokia is buying Navteq
 

I like this move from Nokia. Garmin is one of the biggest clients of Navteq and in the US, Garmin navigation devices have the best maps. This would mean same Garmin-quality maps for Nokia devices.

Now can we infer that the next Internet Tablet will have built-in GPS and navigation? ;)

Re: Nokia is buying Navteq
 

I'd wager we can infer that as much as Nokia announcing the free availability of Nokia Maps for "all N-series devices" included the N800 :-/

Nokia Aquires NAVTEQ
 

Re: Nokia is buying Navteq
 

If that happens, I'm afraid what's going to happen Gnuite's great work on creating MaemoMapper? (Most likely Nokia Maps will not be made available for 770, thus that will still find good home for MaemoMapper...)

Re: Nokia Aquires NAVTEQ
 

I'm pretty sure that the lack of Nokia Maps on the N800 has more to do with not castrating Navicore than because they simply don't want to do it.

Re: Nokia Aquires NAVTEQ
 

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