Here Map coming soon on Samsung Galaxy Devices

[D M C]

Nokia finally brings HERE Maps to Android, will be exclusively available for Samsung Galaxy smartphones

I think it should be available on all devices. If not then XDA devs make sure it will
So here goes another exclusive WP app.

 

[Silviu Bogusevschi]

Nokia HERE is NOT a part of Microsoft, so it can do whatever it decides.

I'm actually happy to see these apps on more platforms.

 

[theefman]

Nothing to complain about, Microsoft themselves prioritize other platforms over its own, this is nothing to get excited about.

 

[dKp1977]

Nothing to complain about, Microsoft themselves prioritize other platforms over its own, this is nothing to get excited about.

Microsoft has nothing to do with the HERE products. They still belong to Nokia.
And HERE Maps wasn't even WP exclusive. Nokia released it for iOS too, but pulled it about a year later.

 

[theefman]

Microsoft has nothing to do with the HERE products. They still belong to Nokia.
And HERE Maps wasn't even WP exclusive. Nokia released it for iOS too, but pulled it about a year later.

So which part of my post is wrong? The point is, in response to the OP stating that another WP exclusive was "lost", Microsoft who owns WP doesn't prioritize its own platform so why should Nokia be expected to?

 

[AR2186]

I still have Here Maps on my iPhone, so it never was exclusive

 

[prasath1234]

So then android users have one less reason to shift.thanks Nokia soon make it available on all android phones Nokia rocks.free offline navigation for all os.

 

[D M C]

My bad.
I didn't know that it was already available on iOS.
Thanks for info.

 

[Sym3]

Now comes the big question. Will here maps and drive will be updated along with android version or will it be ditched? Android version has route selection option which is yet to come to windows phone, not only that but here on android is a single app as supposed to two apps.

 

[D M C]

Now comes the big question. Will here maps and drive will be updated along with android version or will it be ditched? Android version has route selection option which is yet to come to windows phone, not only that but here on android is a single app as supposed to two apps.

So, It's already better than WP.

Fu*K.

Do WP have anything left that we can proud on but Android users can not.

 

[BatteryLife]

I was only proud of 3 things on my Lumia 520...

1) Smoothness
It was gone with WP8.1.

2) Nokia camera (manual settings)
They took the 4 seconds exposure away.

3) HERE maps (offline maps)
Not exclusive anymore?

...

 

[Sym3]

Only thing left is hardware exclusives like Pureview, clear black display, HAAC microphones, Zeiss optics and imaging expertise. Those I named are major exclusives Microsoft has.

 

[prasath1234]

Oh now it looks Microsoft will bring to Cortana sooner.come on Microsoft do that nd we wp user let us be left with despair.long lived android.