By Loek Essers

IDG News Service | Aug 29, 2014 8:31 AM PT

 

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Samsung has partnered with Nokia to bring navigation service Here to its new smartwatch and Galaxy Android phones.

Here is a Nokia subsidiary that provides navigation, mapping and location services comparable with Google and Apple Maps.

 

Here will be available on Samsung's Tizen devices including the Gear S, a curved smartwatch that was announced this week, Nokia said.

On the Gear, Here will power an app called Navigator, offering turn-by-turn navigation as well as public transit routing. The app works stand-alone and map data can be stored on the device to use for offline navigation, Nokia said. However, Navigator can also pair with Here's Android app to let users calculate routes on their phones and send them to their smartwatch, it added.

 

ComputerWorld/ full article here/ http://www.computerworld.com/article/2600405/wireless/nokias-navigation-service-here-comes-to-samsung-smartwatch-and-galaxy.html