LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Navfree has reached its goal of building a 5.5 million global strong GPS navigation user base, taking it level with Nokia’s GPS navigation in the process*, the company announced today. Now Navfree is the number one mobile GPS navigation app in nine countries, the application is growing by 500,000 new users per month on iPhone and Android.
Navfree users are also on track to make over 400,000 street map corrections on their mobiles this year. In the last month, Navmii launched Navfree on the Android and already has over 370,000 users.
Peter Atalla, CEO of Navmii, said: “When we launched the product two years ago I remember people saying that it was impossible to compete with the likes of TomTom and Nokia for satellite navigation on the mobile phones. Two years later Navfree has attracted 5.5 million users, and is ahead of Nokia with a European market share of 8% in mobile GPS navigation. *”
The 5.5 million-user navigation system is completely free to download and offers the consumer all the functionality expected from satellite navigation. Navfree comprises of data gathered by millions of people around the world, to guide users around different countries, cities, towns and villages, powered by Openstreetmap. With over 20,000 map corrections made every month by users of Navfree, the app gets more and more accurate. Any user can help to make it the most accurate GPS navigation system by updating the map where they live or work.
Unlike most other GPS navigation apps, Navfree stores all map data on the phone, this means it doesn’t rely on a data signal to work and protects users from expensive mobile data charges.
*Mobile Navigation Services and Devices, LBS Research Service 2012 – BERG insight
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About Navmii
Navmii is a publisher of GPS location-based applications. Navmii designs, develops and supplies advanced GPS navigation and location based systems including Navmii, Navmii GPS Live, NavFree GPS Live with more than 5.5 million users to date.
The Navmii iPhone app is currently available for the UK, Ireland, Nigeria and USA. Navmii GPS Live is available for UK, Ireland and continental Europe including France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Austria, Switzerland, Sweden and The Netherlands. NavFree GPS Live from Navmii is available for Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Mexico, Norway, New Zealand, Portugal, Sweden, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, UK, and USA, including individual states.