Nokia launches HERE Explore to help you find new places

HERE Explore

Nokia has ever been potent in mobile mapping. The HERE mapping platform powers non only Windows Phone 8 apps, just helps provide navigation services and location solutions for companies like Garmin, BMW, Oracle and Amazon. It's a very valuable business unit of measurement for Nokia, which is why it's not going to Microsoft. That said, it'due south great to see the Here team continuing to pump out solid progress on Windows Phone with absurd new apps like HERE Explore. Let's check it out.

Outset impressions of HERE Explore? Information technology reminded us a bit of the built in Location Scout on Windows Phone 8, but information technology's obviously a piddling more flushed out in features. HERE Explore is an app designed to help you lot observe places based on a new contextual recommendation engine that Nokia has worked on. They say y'all can use it to discover a belatedly night snack, a scenic vista bespeak, or whatsoever multifariousness of potentially interesting places for you. Hither are the features you get with Hither Explore:

Come across recommendations based on where y'all are or where you want to go
Search for places around you from a customizable list of categories
Customize the app and make your favorite searches even quicker to access.
Meet search results displayed in a list, on a map, or in LiveSight
One-tap access to more place information, such as photos, reviews from trusted sources and contact data
Add photos and reviews of places you lot've been
Get drive, walk or public transport directions to a place
Concord up your smartphone to run into floating signs that show yous where places are located and tap to see more than well-nigh that identify
To call back and relieve places, add them to your own private collection

HERE Explore

The app worked pretty well the few minutes we spent checking it out. Although we're currently in Abu Dhabi and most of the locations were in Arabic. This definitely looks like a handy app to employ for when you desire to explore a new location. Nosotros'll be using this tonight every bit we wrap up here Nokia World 2022 in Abu Dhabi.

Want Hither Explore? You'll need a Lumia device and will want to go to the Windows Phone Store. You can also grab it by using the QR code below or swiping to the right in our app.

Thanks everyone for the tip!

QR: HERE Explore

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