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Nokia brings slick HERE mapping app to iPhone with full offline mode, real-time data, and much more

Four million downloads after launching its HERE mapping app for Android devices back in October, Nokia is today bringing HERE to iOS devices. I’ve been playing with the app for a while leading up to launch, and it’s a true Google Maps and Apple Maps competitor…

One of the highlight features of the HERE app for iOS is saved maps, which allows you to essentially put the entire experience directly on your device for times when you don’t have a data connection. The offline mode will even let you search, get directions, and find your own location. Like similar solutions from other mapping apps, you’ll be able to download cities and countries a la carte for offline mode out of the 150 or so maps available offline.

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Other features you’ll find in the HERE app: directions for walking, public transit for 950 cities, and turn-by-turn navigation for vehicles with voice guidance/spoken street names. A lot of real-time data is pulled into the app, and a unique Collections feature keeps track of saved points of interest.

When you have a data connection, HERE’s “hybrid engine” combines saved maps with online information — such as live traffic (in 40+ countries), real-time public transit (25 cities), and photos and reviews for the places shown on the map… Collections let you save places ahead of time. You can create and view Collections on any HERE app — iOS, Android, Windows, etc. — or on the web at here.com.

The HERE app for iPhone arrives today on the App Store. More screenshots below:

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Comments

  1. Daniel Tuan - 9 years ago

    Don’t see the app in iOS App store. Is this already on or still coming soon?

  2. App Store и iTunes Store – does not work)

  3. marsontherocks - 9 years ago

    Hasn’t arrived in the Danish app-store yet…

  4. Damon Williams - 9 years ago

    It may just be me, but I can’t find it in the App Store just yet. Will keep trying. There are two other HERE mapping apps in there, though. Hm… Oh well; will circle back later.

  5. looks like a great app .. too bad App Store doesn’t work right now …

  6. Andrea Anderson - 9 years ago

    doesn’t work in USA either… where does it work then?

  7. William Robinson - 9 years ago

    The article says it will arrive later today. Check back later.

  8. Dafty Punk - 9 years ago

    I’ve had this app on my iOS Device for a loooong time. Was it pulled and now getting a re-release?

    • Originally released a few years ago but it was pulled I believe in 2013 because they didn’t want to put in the time to develop it for iOS7 after the whole Microsoft ordeal. With that squared away, they started work on it again, released on Android last fall and back on iOS today (if they fix the App Store)

  9. William Robinson - 9 years ago

    It’s now available in the (US) AppStore. Not sure about other countries.

  10. Michael Massing - 9 years ago

    I see no obvious or intuitive way to select or even display public transit routes by arrival time. Such a lack, if true, incomprehensibly renders the app useless for public transit planning.

    • Pino at HERE (@haikus) - 9 years ago

      Hi Michael, when you plan a route, you have the option to see all transit options by tapping on ‘More transit routes’. In the next screen, you have the possibility to see at-a-glance which one best fits your needs. You can also change the options to see how to get to destination at a specific time. I posted some screenshots on Twitter: https://twitter.com/haikus/status/576049198291894272

    • Pino at HERE (@haikus) - 9 years ago

      Hi Michael, when you plan a route, you have the option to see all transit options by tapping on ‘More transit routes’. In the next screen, you have the possibility to see at-a-glance which one best fits your needs. You can also change the options to see how to get to destination at a specific time. I posted some screenshots on my Twitter account: feel free to check it out.

      • Thanks, Pino! And shame on me for going off half-cocked! I stumbled across the solution this morning, and was puzzled to find it’s no more or less intuitive than Google’s mechanism.

        One difference is that the display expands rather than adapting to the iPad in landscape mode, which makes the first option look like the only one. This may also be the reason I saw (this morning) a suggestion to take an hourly bus at 7 a.m. to arrive 20 minutes away by noon. In the last example, wouldn’t reverse chronological listing backward from the closest trip be more logical?

        I like the look of the maps, and I’ll reserve other feedback for the feedback channel. The ability to save searches and maps for offline, if it works the way I expect it to, could make this my go-to map app.

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