One of Nokia's strengths, before the major part of the company got acquired by Microsoft, was the fact that its devices came with a solid maps and navigation app called Here.

Now, on Wednesday, Nokia launched Here for Android devices on Google Play. The price? Free.

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If you've been using Google Maps — also a free, and often pre-installed, Android app — for your GPS navigation needs, you might wonder what would be the point of installing Nokia's offering. But while Maps is more about, well, maps, Nokia Here is much more akin to a standard, GPS, voice-guided navigation app — and those usually do not come free.

Another important feature is offline maps, letting you download all the maps you need to your phone, which enables you to use the app while offline.

With this update, Nokia has also included voice-guided navigation for 18 new countries, mostly in Africa, bringing the total number of countries supported to 118.

And while the app has been available as an APK download before (i.e. "side-loaded"), the difference, starting today, is that you can get it on Google Play.

The news isn't so good for iPhone users — Here won't be available for iOS until early 2015.