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Personally I liked their older model - a map and nav service that lived entirely on the handset. You could take the whole world with you, which is very useful in some of the more remote areas (like parts of Australia).


I believe here.net works also in offline mode with HTML5 local storage, at least the old Nokia maps version did. Maybe the 'collections' feature stores the actual data on your phone.


You still can...


uh... good! Is that available on their Win Phones too?

Not that I'm looking at buying nokia any time soon, I only replaced my N900 with a Galaxy Note earlier this year.


One of the big draws of Nokia Maps on Windows Phone is that you can download offline maps of the entire world.


...and on all of the Symbian^3 crowd of phones as well. Quite a lifesaver when travelling around Europe and not wanting to get gouged on roaming data charges.


Yes, Windows Phone 8 has offline maps.




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