Nokia's "smart2go" will allow users to focus localized search and route-finding services into mobile handsets for free.

The new service uses navigation software the Finnish phone maker acquired last year from its buyout of Gate5, a German-based mapping and routing company.

The platform contains over 15 million "points of interest," including sights, restaurants and accommodations around them. Customers can select locations and send them through multimedia message, Bluetooth wireless technology, infrared or e-mail, according to Nokia.

Users can also store the map data on a memory card in the handset and the data can be downloaded over the air or via a connection to a PC.

Phones based on Linux and older Nokia and Microsoft devices will be supported in the future, the firm stated Thursday.