We just had the opportunity to sit down with Design Head Peter Skillman here in San Francisco and get the lowdown on all things Nokia Here. A lot has changed since we interviewed him at Nokia World last year, including the launch of Windows Phone 8 and new Lumia devices. We talked about what Nokia Here brings to the table including LiveSight (a whole suite of applications including Drive, Walk and Public Transportation), the here.com full 3D WebGL experience and the Earthmine acquisition. Still, it’s the cross-platform aspects of Nokia Here — Android, iOS and Firefox OS support — that intrigued us the most, so we asked how this affects the company’s Windows Phone strategy (if at all). Join us for the full interview above.
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Nokia’s free Nokia Maps app has certainly helped folks get around without having to bust their budget on more expensive paid navigation solutions, and here we are with yet another interesting twist from Nokia with the introduction of HERE. HERE is said to be the first location cloud that delivers the world’s best maps and location experiences across multiple screens and operating systems, now how about that? Nokia intends to inspire an entire generation of location services with HERE, and Nokia President and CEO Stephen Elop said, “People want great maps, and with HERE we can bring together Nokia’s location offering to deliver people a better way to explore, discover and share their world. Additionally, with HERE we can extend our 20 years of location expertise to new devices and operating systems that reach beyond Nokia. As a result, we believe that more people benefit from and contribute to our leading mapping and location service.”
