Amazon to adapt Nokia Maps for next Kindle Fire, ignoring Google Maps

According to the reports from Reuters, Nokia Maps are going to be used by Amazon for the next Kindle Fire. While currently Kindle Fire does not support mapping or location services, however stepping on to Apple’s path Amazon also decides to avoid Google Maps. That is told by tells some people to Reuters.

Report also includes that next Kindle Fire will use location services as well as mapping. Medium could be any or both of the built-in GPS receiver or WiFi triangulation. And that could be much true that Amazon must add these features in next Kindle Fire to stand with the Google’s Nexus 7 tablet.

Apple has done the same thing with Google Maps by removing it from its iOS and using their own built services with TomTom mapping content and information starting from company’s next operating system iOS6

[source Reuters]
[via MNB]