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Mobile communications company Nokia (Espoo, Finland) is taking decisive steps to participate in the GPS handheld market, acquiring a mapping software company and striking a licensing deal with a GPS manufacturer.

Nokia is acquiring gate5 AG, a Berlin, Germany-based supplier of mapping, routing, and navigation software and services, with plans to add location-based applications to its cell phones.

“Maps and navigation are natural elements to be offered in mobile devices but this area hasn’t developed as fast as expected by the market,” said Anssi Vanjoki, Nokia’s general manager of multimedia.

In a related step, on October 2 Nokia and Trimble Navigation of Sunnyvale, California, struck a cooperative licensing agreement that gives Nokia the ability to use Trimble’s patented GNSS technology in its handsets.

As part of the deal, Trimble can use Nokia’s location patents in its products and services.

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