Nokia viNE

R/GA New York helped Nokia develop a GPS app for the Nokia N series when they came late to the marketplace and Google and Apple already owned mobile mapping.

Nokia viNE

R/GA, New York

SUMMARY

How do you compete against two tech powerhouses if you aren't first to market? When Nokia asked us to develop a GPS app for the Nokia Nseries—their premier line of mobile devices—Google and Apple already owned mobile mapping. So our challenge was not simply to build another app, but to find a way to differentiate ourselves in a category created by our competitors.

Through this investigation, we had an epiphany. We assumed GPS had to be used to map routes and places since that is how history and our competitors had defined mapping. But...

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