Nokia Wants to Run Your Connected Car
Despite their connections with Microsoft, Nokia isn’t having much luck with their mobile phone division lately–at least compared to iOS and Google. But they’ve also got other things going on.
GigaOm points out that Nokia has been involved with auto manufacturers in a big way for quite some time.
Rumors of a Nokia tablet has got the tech world buzzing, but Nokia’s plans to expand beyond the handset are much more ambitious than producing a mere slate. Nokia EVP of Location and Commerce Michael Halbherr told GigaOM that the Finnish handset maker is eyeballing the car as the next repository of its technology and applications and has plans to launch some form of connected car platform in the future.
Of course, Nokia is already a significant player in the automotive market. The company supplies maps for navigation systems through its Navteq group, which along with the rest of Nokia’s location services was recently renamed Here, the massive Nokia division Halbherr now heads up.
Again, I bring this up because (a) I love cars; and (b) I believe that the new connected car technology will have massive impacts on how we’ll consume music and information while we drive. And that includes AM/FM radio.
