Nokia Drive+ Beta Now Available For All Windows Phone 8 Users

By Gene Ryan Briones on 01/23/2013, filed in Home > CellPhones

Nokia Drive+ Beta Now Available For All Windows Phone 8 Users Are you frustrated at the fact that Noka Drive+, Nokia’s useful turn-by-turn navigation app, is still in beta and is only exclusive to the Lumia? Well, Microsoft and Nokia wants the rest of the Windows Phone 8 population to enjoy it. Beginning today, the beta version of Nokia Drive+ is now available for free to all Windows Phone 8 customers in the U.S., U.K., and Canada. Note that the app is still in beta, so expect a few bugs here and there. The team behind the app needs more time to fine tune the app, particularly the user experience.

But beta users can, of course, access the map’s full turn-by-turn voice-guided navigation, offline maps, speed limit warnings, and conveniences such as day and night modes. “With today’s release, the team is looking forward to hearing from even more Windows Phone customers through the app’s “feedback” tab, to help make it even better. Give it a try and let them know what you think,” Microsoft said. You can download Nokia Drive+ beta here.

Microsoft: Microsoft is the company behind software like Windows, Microsoft Office and hardware like the Xbox and Kinect. The company was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. MS-DOS was the product that propelled Microsoft towards success, but it is Windows and Office that made it what it is today. Microsoft is currently engaged in a number of projects, including Windows 8, Windows Phone, Xbox, Office and the Azure cloud computing platform. the large majority of desktop computers run on Windows.

Nokia: Nokia is a Finnish communications company that was the largest phone vendor (per unit) between 1988 to 2012. The company's history go back to 1871 but the Nokia that we know today (the Nokia corporation) was founded in 1967 by the merger of three Finnish companies. It is then that Nokia worked on networking equipment and was ultimately involved in the launch of the first cellular network in 1981 (Mobira Oy). Nokia because a key developer of GSM, the standard that we all know today. Although Nokia still produces a range of phones that includes entry-level handsets and Symbian smartphones, the company is counting on the Windows Phone OS to regain the share that it once had. The current flagship Windows Phone device from Nokia is the Lumia 920.

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