Contrary to rumors surfaced recently on the internet, Nokia has has made a statement via its U.K. Communications Director saying that the company has no plans on making the Nokia Drive software available to other Windows Phone OEMs.
Nokia Drive is Espoo’s own turn-by-turn, voice-guided, 3D navigation system and it is included with every Nokia Windows Phone (just like it is included on Symbian and MeeGo devices). Together with other software bits like Nokia Music with MixRadio, Drive is what differentiates Windows Phones made in Finland from the others (even though the community is hard at work hacking the heck out of such software).
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