Thread: Sygic announces world-wide turn-by-turn navigation for Maemo
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2010-03-08 , 12:36
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#490
Originally Posted by cardiff-blues View Post
From an earlier conversation with a Sygic representative a couple of months ago. They told me they were ready to release the app but Nokia stepped in and wanted to do something with Sygic. In the meantime, Sygic have fixed a few bugs and made some enhancements to the software but I suspect that it was Nokia's involvement that has prevented Sygic from releasing this earlier.
I found out by Sygic technical support that their product uses Navteq maps, which is suspicious since Nokia owns the company... Check out the Ovi Blog comments where a Nokia employee named Niini confirms that Ovi Maps team are working on including turn-by-turn on N900.

My conspiracy theory is that Nokia is porting their Symbian version based on WRT (Nokia's webkit), to one based on Qt4.6 webkit. That would (theoretically) enable them to develop the same Ovi Maps application for both Maemo, Meego and Symbian devices. I just don't know what it is the deal between Nokia and Sygic, since having Ovi Maps with free navigation and delaying Sygic Mobile Maps launch at the same time it would destroy any business partnership...
 

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