Nav4All chiude baracca :(

[Dj Antonino]

Mi e' arrivata oggi questa e-mail.. davvero una brutta notizia L'ho usato per poco ma mi sembrava cmq un buon navigatore considerando che era 100% free..

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: www.nav4all.com/support. If there is any further information from Nav4All concerning the subject of this letter, the same will be published on our website: www.nav4all.com. 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

http://www.nav4all.com/site2/www.nav.../ita/index.php

Probabilmente i primi effetti della nuova strategia di Nokia di rendere OVI maps gratuito, pero' non mi sembra proprio corretta come cosa..

Altre info qui:
http://www.slashgear.com/nav4all-shu...lamed-2972077/
http://www.gsmhelpdesk.nl/en/read.php?id=4875&ch=1

[Alexgn]

Io quel navigatore non l'ho nemmeno mai installato perché tanto erano molti mesi che si sapeva già che da inizio del 2010 sarebbe diventato a pagamento.. quindi non mi ci sono proprio voluto affezionare!! XD
Però che dovesse chiudere non ne avevo mai sentito parlare!!

Nokia è proprietaria di Navteq ormai da molto tempo, è strano che non fornisca più le mappe soltanto adesso. Forse c'entra davvero il discorso dell'OVI Maps..

A questo punto l'unica alternativa che conosco è AmazeGPS 4.5 (la 5 è a pagamento).
Oppure Skobbler che però io non sono mai riuscito a far funzionare.