Microsoft is going to be kaartensoftware for smartphones from the Nokia name. In the future Nokia so with a map from Bing Maps. The Finnish manufacturer also seems to be the biggest part of the development.
The new name will not only be visible on Nokia’s own smartphones running on Windows Phone running: also devices of other manufacturers will the name Nokia to see if they use Microsoft’s Maps service. That left the ceo of the Finnish manufacturer, Stephen Elop, to know in an interview with Pocket-lint. In addition, he told that BlackBerry phones the Nokia-branding will get. RIM, the manufacturer of BlackBerry, has some time ago decided to use Microsoft’s search and kaartendienst standard to deliver on his phones.
Microsoft and Nokia some time ago has entered into a partnership, in which the Finnish manufacturer billions of dollars to handsets with Windows Phone. The name change is part of the sizeable contract. This is Nokia also the development largely take over, making it a big finger in the porridge at Microsoft kaartensoftware.
Earlier there were rumors that a rebranding was coming. Although there in may last year that already was spoken, there was yet no name change is made. It is possible that Nokia first Windows Phone device on the market wanted to bring with his own map and navigation service. The software Nokia Maps and Drive is currently exclusive to Nokia devices with Windows Phone. It is unclear, incidentally, how the Nokia brand name in Bing Maps integrated.
Update, 14.00: Nuance made that from the words of Elop is not derived may be that Bing Maps was renamed to Nokia Maps.