T-Mobile USA’s Nokia 5230 Nuron to come with Ovi maps

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: The first U.S. device to arrive preloaded with Nokia’s popular Ovi Maps navigation application has been announced by Nokia. It is T-Mobile USA’s forthcoming Nokia 5230 Nuron. It is also the first from a national U.S. operator to come preloaded with Nokia’s Ovi Store mobile content marketplace.

T-Mobile is also offering carrier billing as well as credit card purchases. Free turn-by-turn navigation and directions, weather forecasts and Facebook-based location sharing, the 3.2-inch touchscreen Nurion device Android Develops Enhanced OpenGL Support are some of the features of the smartphone.

Ovi Maps also features recommendations from Lonely Planet guides. Scheduled to be shipped in the next few weeks, T-Mobile USA exclusive comes preloaded with maps for the U.S., Canada and Mexico.

The announcement that more than 3 million consumers have downloaded the Ovi Maps application since its debut in late January was made by Nokia during last month’s Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona.

According to Niklas Savander, the handset giant’s executive vice president of services, Ovi Maps now averages more than one download per second, 24 hours a day, translating to around 100,000 downloads on a daily basis.