Nuked Chinese phone maker Huawei will work with Dutch digital mapping company TomTom to put maps on its phones. A TomTom spokesperson told Reuters that the deal closed’some time ago,’ but it became public late last week.
Tomtom has previously provided data for Apple Maps. It was part of a shambolic patchwork of data providers at launch. Apple reportedly kept using its services after overhauling the app.
Previous reports have said Huawei is building a full-fledged mapping system known as’map kit’. That software would be meant for app developers and could use data from Yandex and Huawei’s own’telecom base stations’.
