Look out, Google Maps Navigation — here comes the small accessible foe from across the pond. While we’d heard a term HTC Locations bandied about the bit during a company’s London launch of the Desire HD, now it looks as if both HTC as well as TomTom have been ready to have their newfound loyalty central. TomTom will be partnering with HTC in sequence to provide maps for phones loaded with HTC Locations, which is hailed as the brand-new mapping complement which results in a “zero-wait navigation experience.” Initially, during least, it’ll only be accessible upon a brand-new HTC Desire HD as well as HTC Desire Z smartphones in Europe as well as Asia, though a outfit promises to extend that to a wide variety of future phones as well as geographies. It should be noted, however, which whilst map as well as location calm come preloaded upon HTC Locations, turn-by-turn by superintendence has to be purchased alone. Show full PR textTomTom as well as HTC Unite to Deliver Best of Class Location and Navigation Experience on a Phone

AMSTERDAM & TAOYUAN, Taiwan–(BUSINESS WIRE)–TomTom, a world’s leading provider of place as well as navigation solutions, and HTC Corporation, a global designer of smartphones, today voiced they are mixing strengths to broach glorious navigation as well as place solutions upon HTC smartphones.

“This partnership with TomTom underlines HTC’s joining to giving our customers an innovative navigation experience which is healthy as well as provides unique enhancements for usual navigation needs”

HTC Locations, HTC’s brand-new mapping knowledge, comes preloaded with TomTom’s location-rich maps, ensuing in a zero-wait navigation knowledge. HTC Locations is primarily accessible upon a brand-new HTC Desire HD and HTC Desire Z smartphones in Europe as well as Asia as well as will be extended to a far-reaching accumulation of future smartphones as well as geographies.

“I am very gratified to be on condition that HTC business with TomTom’s correct location and navigation content on their phones wherever they have been. The beauty of it is that a maps have been preloaded as well as now available at users’ fingertips. For the first time, this makes a energy of TomTom navigation calm accessible ‘in-pocket’ for HTC smartphone users”, says Maarten outpost Gool, Managing Director of TomTom Licensing.

“This partnership with TomTom underlines HTC’s joining to giving the business an innovative navigation knowledge which is healthy and provides unique enhancements for usual navigation needs,” said John Wang, Chief Marketing Officer, HTC Corporation. “HTC as well as TomTom have worked closely to optimize these extraordinary capabilities on HTC smartphones through the brand-new HTC Locations application.”

Maps as well as place calm come preloaded upon HTC Locations whilst turn-by-turn navigation can be purchased as well as downloaded through HTC Locations or HTC Sync.

Via Engadget