Nokia Releases Free Satnav – TomTom, Garmin and Maybe Google Threatened

The world’s biggest telephone maker, Nokia, has announced on Thursday the introduction of free satellite navigation on its cellphones, preparing to take a second bite out of the satnav producers’ $25 billion market, after the first one had already been swallowed by Google, as Reuters reports.

Google offered Google Maps for mobile since 2005 but the feature was incomplete as drivers were only given a list of driving directions. But in October 2009, the company introduced the Google Maps Navig… (read more)