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WirelessDevNet.com Press Release
Tele Atlas makes major inroad into mobile navigation with its partner Wayfinder Systems
Ghent, Belgium / Lund, Sweden Wayfinder Systems AB has just announced that its recently launched and already widely acclaimed Mobile MapGuide and Mobile Navigator software will be pre-installed on the Nokia 6600, due to be launched shortly. Wayfinder Mobile MapGuide is a map and route guidance application that helps you find places and gives directions how to get to them. It easily upgrades to Wayfinder Mobile Navigator, which turns your Nokia 6600 phone into a full-fledged, GPS-based real-time navigation system, with live maps, turn-by-turn directions and voice instructions. All based on the complete, accurate and up to date Tele Atlas maps.
Magnus Nilsson, Wayfinder Systems Chairman and CEO, stated, This is a most exciting time for us at Wayfinder Systems. We have developed easy to use mapping and navigation applications for the Nokia Series 60 platform, a platform licensed by leading handset manufacturers around the world. This is excellent for further developing our location and navigation services and, as such, the presence of our Mobile MapGuide and Mobile Navigator in the Nokia 6600 launch is a natural development of the cooperation between Nokia, Wayfinder. This exciting new initiative will give the growing navigation and mapping industry a big boost.
The Wayfinder products will be part of Nokias promotion and distribution activities for the launch of the new Nokia 6600 phone.
Taking mobile phone services to the next level
We are extremely pleased, says Anssi Vanjoki, Executive Vice President of Nokia Mobile Phones, to have the Wayfinder services as part of our offering when launching the Nokia 6600 phone. Wayfinder Mobile MapGuide and Navigator are excellent examples of the type of location aware services that will take the mobile phone industry to the next level in offering services beyond voice.
Finding your way with the Wayfinder Mobile MapGuide
Wayfinder Mobile MapGuide is a pan-European (and later in the year also covering USA and Canada) map and route guidance application that helps you find places and the directions how to get there, using the complete Tele Atlas digital geographic map database with road network coverage that reaches over 700 Million inhabitants worldwide. With Wayfinder you can search for millions of addresses, companies and all types of points of interest, and it enables you to view them on colour-rich maps in the phones display.
Real-time navigation with the Wayfinder Mobile Navigator
Wayfinder Mobile Navigator is an upgrade package that turns your Nokia 6600 into a full-fledged GPS-based and voice guided navigation system, which works wherever you are in your car, on your bike or on foot. It uses the same comprehensive and up-to-date Tele Atlas maps and databases of information as Wayfinder Mobile MapGuide, and with precise and easy to use turn-by-turn instructions, you can focus on your driving and let Wayfinder take care of the navigation We get you there!
Wayfinder photographs
You can download the Wayfinder logo, screenshots and photographs under http://www.wayfinder.com/wayfinder/media_photos.html.
About Tele Atlas
Tele Atlas is a worldwide leading provider of state-of-the-art geographic databases. It has the largest portfolio of the most highly detailed and positionally accurate digital maps of both Europe and North America, covering around 388 million inhabitants in 18 European countries and 313 million inhabitants in North America. The companys digital maps offer worldwide solutions for companies in the Geo Spatial, Navigation and Location-Based Services industries. With its 1859 staff, the company is actively increasing coverage on a global scale and is continuously updating, refining and adding detail to its map databases. Since May 2000, Tele Atlas (TA6) has been listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, as of March 2003 in the Prime Standard segment. Visit www.teleatlas.com for more information on Tele Atlas, and www.navshop.com for its navigation products.
About Wayfinder Systems AB
Wayfinder Systems is a company at the forefront of the development of location aware applications and services for the mobile user. Wayfinder Mobile Navigator, launched in May 2003 has received extremely favourable reviews from customers as well as in the press around the world. Wayfinder, headquartered in Lund, is present in all major European markets and shortly also in the US. Innovation and development take place in Sweden as well as in India. Wayfinder services are based on Tele Atlas digital maps for its accuracy and completeness.
For more information please visit www.wayfinder.com or contact Susan Akici at +46 46 288 22 48.
Wayfinder Mobile MapGuide and Wayfinder Mobile Navigator are trademarks of Wayfinder Systems AB. All other trade names and trademarks mentioned herein may be property of their respective holders.
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