Huawei and TomTom together to provide maps on new smartphones
Surprisingly, or perhaps not, an important agreement arrives between Huawei and TomTom. The two companies will collaborate to allow users to use maps and navigation in Huawei smartphones. Here is the official agreement.
An important agreement arrives in Huawei’s strategy to try to bypass somehow the blockade that the US imposed by depriving the Chinese company of certification on Google’s services. The official agreement concerns Huawei and TomTom or the company that has been working on navigation and digital mapping for some time now.
An agreement that will allow Huawei, at the time of testing Google Maps, to be able to take advantage of the maps and services of TomTom through applications on their smartphones.
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The news was beaten by Reuters a few moments ago, and the official statement from the Chinese company has not yet been obtained. Still, the agreement has been signed, and this means that in the next Huawei smartphones, users will be able to find the TomTom and above all use real-time navigation, having traffic news in an updated way and all the services that TomTom usually allows those who use the service by subscription and downloading their application to use.
TomTom’s spokesman, Remco Meestra, said the deal had been closed for some time but had not yet been made public. On the agreement and the details, the spokesman did not, at the moment, want to release other details.
We know how TomTom, with the spread of Google Maps and other applications present or downloadable on smartphones, has decided in the last period to gradually move away from the sale of devices to offer more software services. Last year he sold the telematic division to the Japanese Bridgestone to concentrate even more on his activities related precisely to digital maps.
The agreement with Huawei seems to reward this and is certainly significant for the Dutch company that will be able to take advantage of the exclusivity, at least for the moment.
Huawei places a first step in its independence from Google. The company has always stated that it does not want to do it but that, if the circumstances do not change, it will necessarily have to work for its operating system. App Gallery and the new HMS for developers is undoubtedly the proof, and the agreement with TomTom goes precisely in that direction.
