Guest ikamatos Posted January 31, 2010 Report Share Posted January 31, 2010 (edited) 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 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. ============================================================ P.S.- I posted to let people know; if, by any chance, it's off-topic then feel free to move it to the right section. Since I use Nav4all in a HTC Hero running Android I took this as the right place to post. Edited January 31, 2010 by ikamatos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pulser Posted January 31, 2010 Report Share Posted January 31, 2010 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 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. ============================================================ P.S.- I posted to let people know; if, by any chance, it's off-topic then feel free to move it to the right section. Since I use Nav4all in a HTC Hero running Android I took this as the right place to post. Tbh, I read this at first and thought "nonsense", but this looks to be true according to their own website. I must learn to trust what I read on the web more! So, sorry for not believing this, but just to confirm to others this appears to be true. A pity really, since it always looked a good navigation app. I wonder if there will be any investigation into the withdrawal of the licensing, since the fact it was totally owned by nokia does suggest they maybe didn't fancy competition for their lame maps offering. Thanks for the heads-up though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ikamatos Posted February 1, 2010 Report Share Posted February 1, 2010 Tbh, I read this at first and thought "nonsense", but this looks to be true according to their own website. I must learn to trust what I read on the web more! So, sorry for not believing this, but just to confirm to others this appears to be true. A pity really, since it always looked a good navigation app. I wonder if there will be any investigation into the withdrawal of the licensing, since the fact it was totally owned by nokia does suggest they maybe didn't fancy competition for their lame maps offering. Thanks for the heads-up though. I received the email for being a customer and didn't post by copy+pasting from some other forum. This will be useful to other customers as soon as they're "out of service" and won't know why. I too felt this couldn't be true but...it is. Regards, Ikamatos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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