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Ovi Maps Beta for S60 5th Edition with new content and services

Written by: Marcel& Maria, Ovi Maps team

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Today we have announced the new Beta version of Ovi Maps for S60 5th Edition (touch devices) at Nokia World 09 in Stuttgart. The key news is the starting screen giving you one touch access to a variety of new content and services.

All these services focus on your current location and nearby surroundings. My Position looks for your location and shows it on the map. Find places lets you search easily for cities, addresses and places with the new one-box search. Favourites allows you to save your personal map objects such as places and routes. Sign in with your Ovi account and synchronise your favourite places with Ovi to make your maps.ovi.com experience more personal. You can also synchronise your map objects from maps.ovi.com back to Maps on your device.

Our popular car navigation service, Drive, with voice and visual instructions, lane assistance and speed limit warners, comes now with text-to-speech feature for voice guidance including street names during navigation.

My personal favourite service, Walk navigation, takes you through dedicated pedestrian zones, shortcuts, stairways, plazas or pathways through parks and buildings. Now we are introducing voice guidance for Walk with voice instructions including street names during navigation.

Anywhere you go always take the weather with you, or rather real-time Weather information including a 5 day forecast for your current location or the one you go next. Additionally, check out Events for movies, concerts and venues around your location or other places you have found with the help of the Find places functionality.

For you guys, travellers and globetrotters, we’ve added premium editorial travel content by Lonely Planet and Michelin for over 1000 destinations. Find thousands of listings for sights, restaurants, hotels, shops, nightlife, and more. Look these places up on the map, and get there quickly and easily with pedestrian and car navigation.

This is just a quick sample of all the cool things you can do with the new Ovi MapsBeta. To find out more, please download the application from Nokia Beta Labs, and let us know what you think about it. You can participate in the public discussions, send us your private feedback or leave us a shout via Twitter http://twitter.com/ovibynokia.

We are looking forward to your feedback!

Marcel / Maps Product Development team & Maria / Maps Product Marketing