In an article posted over Nokia conversations, Nokia Maps solution for Series 40 phones has been explained in a detailed manner.

Highlights of the Nokia Maps for S40 are,

  • You can find the best tourist places, stores, cafés, restaurants or gyms – and then add them as your favourite places to hangout with friends.
  • The service is specifically designed to use network-based positioning, and offers a lot of features offline to save on data costs and downloading. Maps of  country and region come already loaded on the device. If you’re planning to go abroad you can add extra maps of the world through Nokia PC Suite .
  • With country maps, turn by turn walk navigation is also available in more than 100 countries, for free. You can also save and rediscover your routes, and then share them with your friends without any cost.

How to use,

  • Your experience starts by clicking the Map icon on your phone menu.
  • To see your location and show it to your friends you can use Show Map which will display your surroundings.
  • If you already have a plan in mind and you know exactly where to go, select, Plan your route, in which you can add the starting point and your destination
  • If you don’t have the street name – Search places and your destination by using the maps preloaded on device at no cost. There are around more than 18 million points of interest available offline, too.
  • If you want to let your friends know that you are visiting the newest restaurant in the city – or that you’ve got home safely – see and mark your Position and share it with your friends and family for the same cost as any other SMS.
  • Select and save your favourites places for easy access so that the next time you need one, you just click on it and you are ready to go.
  • You can Personalise your maps by selecting the unit measures and the way you want to see the maps.

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