Ovi Maps Is Free

Nokia Ovi Maps

Nokia announced yesterday that Nokia Ovi Maps will be free from now on. At first Ovi Maps will be freely available in ten Symbian powered phones with built-in GPS, and in March the service will be included with every new GPS phone. The currently supported devices are Nokia X6, Nokia N97 mini, E72, E55, E52, Nokia 6730 classic, Nokia 6710 Navigator, Nokia 5800 Xpressmusic, Nokia 5800 Navigation Edition and Nokia 5230.

I just bought a new phone in December and back then I made a decision between Nokia 5800, Nokia 5230 and Nokia 5530 and ended up purchasing the latter one, the only one without GPS support. I made my decision based on the fact that I would not ever pay for GPS navigation in a phone. Only if I had a crystal ball…

Credits: Screen shot from Nokia’s Ovi Maps site.