“The launch of this new navigation app is the result of close co-operation between NDrive and NAVTEQ and demonstrates how committed both companies are to this region.” added Yiannis Moissidis, vice president, NAVTEQ Sales, Middle-East, Africa, Russia & Balkans.
“With top quality NAVTEQ maps on board, our navigation apps offer an extensive range of POIs and help drivers navigate just like a local,” commented Alexandre Magalhães, NDrive Chief Marketing Officer. There are also now over 280,000 Points of Interest in 70 different categories from fuel stations to pharmacies, hotels, restaurants and hospitals. For example, around 100 3D Landmarks – photorealistic models of prominent buildings – in 11 key cities help orientation in unfamiliar situations. NAVTEQ map coverage of Russia is growing fast with new roads, towns and villages and content added to every quarterly update.
Drivers can now take advantage of a package which includes maps for Russia plus Western and Central Europe as well as a range of advanced navigation features. NAVTEQ is supplying the map data and additional content such as 3D Landmarks to power the NDrive navigation application for smartphones which has recently been launched in Russia. If you’ve downloaded NDrive, and think you still have it on your iPhone, let us know in the comments if you’ve experienced the same thing.October 31st, 2011 NDrive Navigation App Powered by NAVTEQ Map Now Launched in Russia
And considering that NDrive isn’t the only GPS application available on the iPhone, or within the App Store proper, we’re not sure why Apple would choose now, or this app, to pull that lever. Customers on forums are reporting the same thing, such as those on Apple Discussions, saying that the app was on their device, but now it’s just gone. They don’t give a reason as to why the pull would have happened, let alone a time when it may get fixed. We are attentively listening and working hard to address all inquisitions submitted.”Īs you can tell from their reaction, they are just as surprised as everyone else. This issue has been assigned a maximum urgency level as we cannot inquire on the duration of our void from said markets. We are currently working to address and improve the situation in an efficient manner.
Accordingly, NDrive acknowledges that our software listed in the Apple iTunes Store have been dissolved until further notice. “It has recently come to our attention that customers are experiencing difficulties with our iPhone navigation applications.
NDrive’s customer service had this to say about it: As soon as you sync your iPhone to iTunes, after the app has been remotely wiped, it would also delete the file from iTunes as well. It’s also disappearing from people’s Macs and PCs, too. And then subsequently pulled from customer’s iPhones as well. However, it sounds like people didn’t have long to download it, or enjoy it for that matter, before the application itself was pulled from the App Store. The application itself went for $2.99 in the App Store, and it provided upwards of 1.8GB of US map data.