Nokia Drive available now exclusivily for Lumia owners. Windows Phone 8 will also get it when it comes out but no other WP7 phone but Lumias.
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I just got a major update in my Lumia 900—Nokia Drive3.0—It is an amazing free GPS application. There is difference between Windows 7.5 owners and Lumia series owners. This App tells you the best route to reach your destination based on traffic—it even keeps track of the time when you leave for work—See the links below:
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Only windows phone 8 and Lumia owners are getting this—sorry for other WP7.5 owners.
Also, Elop told in his earnings call that Lumia 7.,5 will keep on getting lots of updates and Lumia owners would have the same experience that WP8 owners would get—applications would be developed to work on both platforms.
See excerpts (Elop’s remarks in 2nd qtr Q&A):
“ What we're very focused on communicating right now is that the owners of existing Lumia devices, or devices they might buy tomorrow for example, do have upgrades and updates coming, new capabilities, which I outlined in the prepared remarks, including some of the features from Windows Phone 8 like the start screen.” [not only start screen]
“One of the things that I think is in important and may have been nuanced in the prepared remarks is the updates and upgrades that we're providing for the existing devices are anticipated not only up until Windows Phone 8 but after Windows Phone 8 ships. And it's clearly the case in our expectation that we will continue to sell a number of the Windows Phone existing devices, the existing Lumia devices, beyond the launch of Windows Phone 8, and in some cases, for quite a while beyond that over time. And yes, you can achieve lower price points. You can do different things with that. Now from a platform perspective, part of what we do to ensure coherence is to, first of all, get the overall user experience very similar, which is why the smart screen capability, the new user experience, will be consistent across them, and also while we're working very closely with developers jointly with Microsoft to ensure that application development flow continues across the platforms.”
“. But the last numbers I saw is that in current selling Android devices, something north of 60% of those devices are shipping with a version of the operating system that are 3 versions older than the current shipping version or older. And those devices, by and large, are not upgradable. They have a very incoherent experience across the application environment in Android.” |
