Blackberry Sat Nav

[V8 Animal]

Anyone got a satnav on this phone would like some recomendations please.
Thanks

[V8 Animal]

No one?

[JeepJunkie]

I take it you mean the add on sat nav program for blackberrys as opposed to the built in rubbish?

Well I did the 30 day trial and was not impressed... The map draw and update speed is poor plus blackberrys are to fragile and an awkward shape for the windscreen...

Got a garmin nuvi for the car and a garmin etrex legend for m'bike, hiking and geocaching...

:-)

[V8 Animal]

JeepJunkie said:

I take it you mean the add on sat nav program for blackberrys as opposed to the built in rubbish?

Well I did the 30 day trial and was not impressed... The map draw and update speed is poor plus blackberrys are to fragile and an awkward shape for the windscreen...

Got a garmin nuvi for the car and a garmin etrex legend for m'bike, hiking and geocaching...

:-)

Thanks for your help.
Just thought it would be good if i could use the blackberry sat nav as it's built in it would be good for my tiv not too many gadgets in the car.
Found a blackberry curved windscreen holder might give that a shot only £3
Garmin do the add on £80 i think there is a trial but it's for the usa unless im downloading it wrong.
Cheers.

[ModMan]

There is free GPS software for the BB (Well any device as long it runs Java I think). I run it on my 8310 via GPRS (It downloads the map as you drive) and it's ok I guess. Nice for when I've left my TT at home or in the other car.

http://www.amazegps.com

[markmullen]

I've got Nav4All on my blackberry, its bloody good for free stuff, admittedly no match for a dedicated system but for the odd use it is really handy.

http://www.nav4all.com/

[ModMan]

No more Nav4All

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

[markmullen]

Terrible news, I got the email too, real shame, a lovely little app.

I've usually got my TT740 with me but for impromptu trips the nav4all was ideal.