To promote the new Movie Kong: Skull Island the fictional piece of land has been added to Google Maps.

Soon we will have a new reboot of a franchise, this time King Kong. In order to promote the Movie Google Maps has teamed up with Legendary and Universal pictures to add Skull Island on the Map Server. The fictional island is located near the equator and a few thousand miles west of Peru and is labeled as an „archeological site“.

Google Maps lets the user add their own phantasy reviews and pictures of skull island as a promotion. So far over 6000 people engaged and shared their thoughts, resulting in a pretty cool summary and a few very charming images. The island itself would be pretty deadly to all of us since it is inhabitated by giant animals including our favourite ape King Kong. The movie is the second in a „monserverse“ quadrology, followed by Godzilla: King of monsters in 2019 and Godzilla vs. King Kong in 2020 .

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According to the Korean Times, Samsung is planning to ditch Android and promote their own Eco-System Tizen.

This sounds like some big Step in my Opinion. According to an unnamed Samsung Manager, the company plans to get away from Google and their Android Eco System. The Samsung Employee stated that within the last years the development of the industry went from personal use to buisness use and the company fears that smaller companies like Huawei and Xiaomi might step up to surpass the big S on private sales.

According to the Korean Times, the manager said that „you need your own Eco-System to have a future“ and that Samsung, even though they were pretty late, is developing a great cross-plattform OS. Even though we here in Europe don’t have any Tizen Handsets yet, the market in India seems to really like them. In his Interview the Manager stated that the company has sold over 64 million devices running Tizen in India and the next targeted market would be Russia. If other european Countries will get the Device just yet has been left unanswered.

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Google Maps is quite the good service, but sometimes you need offline maps, and this is where Here Maps joins the stage.

Here Maps is a nice sleek navigation software that is developed by Nokia and was formerly known as Nokia Maps. The Software provides you with an excellent amount of Features such as Points of interest, pedestrian Navigation, Satellite images, home address and favourites, night mode and many more. It has an in-built social networking feature to easily check in to different services such as Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare and many more. But the key Feature I like the most is the offline navigation which allows you to easily use your phone as a navigation system while travelling abroad or when the internet connection is not so great. But enough of the words, here is a short review of Here Maps on my G3, the App is also available for all the other Operating systems (except BBOS and Ubuntu, at the time this article has been written).

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