Die beiden Unternehmen HTC und TomTom werden wohl in Zukunft viel zusammenarbeiten. Darauf deutet zumindest die heutige Pressemitteilung hin. Denn die beiden neuen Androiden Desire Z und Desire HD kommen mit vorinstallierter TomTom Navigation und den dazugehörigem Kartenmaterial. Welche Karten sich genau auf den Geräten zum Beispiel hier in Deutschland befinden werden, ist leider bisher unbekannt. Ich denke aber komplett oder zumindest Zentral-Europa. Die Navigation selbst wird aber in einem Abo erworben werden müssen, schätzungsweise wird es sicherlich aber eine 30 Tage Testversion geben oder etwas ähnliches.
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Pressemitteilung:
TomTom and HTC unite to deliver best of class location and navigation experience on the phoneAmsterdam and Taoyuan, Taiwan – 20 October 2010 – TomTom, the world’s leading provider of location and navigation solutions, and HTC Corporation, a global designer of smartphones, today announced they are combining strengths to deliver superb navigation and location solutions on HTC smartphones.
HTC Locations, HTC’s new mapping experience, comes preloaded with TomTom’s location-rich maps, resulting in a zero-wait navigation experience. HTC Locations is initially available on the new HTC Desire HD and HTC Desire Z smartphones in Europe and Asia and will be extended to a wide variety of future smartphones and geographies.
“I am very pleased to be providing HTC customers with TomTom’s accurate location and navigation content on their phones wherever they are. The beauty of it is that the maps are preloaded and instantly available at users’ fingertips. For the first time, this makes the power of TomTom navigation content available ‘in-pocket’ for HTC smartphone users”, says Maarten van Gool, Managing Director of TomTom Licensing.
“This partnership with TomTom underlines HTC’s commitment to giving our customers an innovative navigation experience that is natural and provides unique enhancements for common navigation needs,” said John Wang, Chief Marketing Officer, HTC Corporation. “HTC and TomTom have worked closely to optimize these amazing capabilities on HTC smartphones through our new HTC Locations application.”
Maps and location content come preloaded on HTC Locations while turn-by-turn navigation can be purchased and downloaded through HTC Locations or HTC Sync.