Nokia's social apps coming to Android and iOS: lions expected to lie down with lambs

GSBot · February 21, 2012, 8:58pm

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Nokia’s Pulse app looks and smells familiar to anyone who’s ever used Google Latitude. The difference being that the Finnish handset maker has the benefit of Navteq’s $8 billion geolocation technology that it picked up back in 2008. Now the Haus of Elop is opening a Boston skunkworks that’ll port the app, as well as future social software over to Android and iOS. It’s part of a wider project to coax users toward Windows Phone by getting them hooked on a suite of features hoped to be “more than the sum of its parts.” What do you think dear readers, will it work?Nokia’s social apps coming to Android and iOS: lions expected to lie down with lambs shortly originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:55:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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