Nav4All shut down

[boomerbsg]

pitty.. just got this on my bb.

Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 28-01-2010 16:30 GMT+1

Subject: Nav4All navigation shut down by Navteq

Letter to 27,625,631 Nav4All navigation customers

Dear Customers,

It is with the deepest regret that we hereby notify you that the
global navigation of Nav4All and the Tracking & Tracing will go
offline in 3 days. The reason for the same is that the data licence
agreement with Navteq (a 100% Nokia subsidiary) was not extended, in
a totally unexpected manner. It is not possible to implement data
from another supplier in our Nav4All systems within the short term.
The Nav4All navigation system was developed for Navteq data. Nav4All
has therefore been constrained to stop.

We greatly regret the fact that we have to suspend the operation of
our service. With your help, we have developed Nav4All into a global
product with 27.5 million users in 56 languages, in 5 years. This has
made Nav4All the largest navigation supplier. This large number of
users also has to do with the fact that Nav4All works on hundreds of
different mobile telephones of many makes such as Blackberry, Sony
Ericsson, Samsung, Motorola, Android, HTC, Nokia, LG, Iphone, Ipod
etc.

After 5 years of testing and market development, we witnessed rapid -
in fact, exponential - growth during the last two years. That growth
was reported in the licence reports to Navteq. In mid-December 2009,
the global coverage was extended to include the Philippines, Morocco
and Kenya.

Please contact the Nav4All support desk in case you have any
questions: Nav4All - Free GPS navigation for your mobile phone!. If there is any further
information from Nav4All concerning the subject of this letter, the
same will be published on our website: Nav4All - Free gps navigation for your mobile phone!. For reasons
of privacy, Nav4All does not have the email addresses of all its
customers, and we therefore request you to forward this email to the
maximum extent possible, in order to ensure that everyone is
informed.

Kind Regards,

Hennie J.M. Groot Koerkamp (CEO)

Nav4All BV

Keizersgracht 62-64

1015 CS Amsterdam NL

The text of this e-mail will be available on our website as soon as
possible in the following languages: Dutch, French, German, Italian,
Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Arabic, Russian, and Indonesian.

[papped]

Sucks. One of the decent, free voice turn by turn apps out there.

[porando]

Does it mean already loaded app will stop working or only there will be no support for it?

[Xopher]

Originally Posted by porando

Does it mean already loaded app will stop working or only there will be no support for it?

It means they no longer have any maps. Doesn't matter if you already have the app installed, there aren't any maps to navigate.

It's kinda hard to use GPS for directions when there isn't any map data from which to calculate.

No maps = no directions = No Nav4All

[dfairlite]

This sucks! there is no good alternative for europe!