Navfree hits 5.5 million mobile GPS navigation users

Navfree has announced it has reached its goal of building a 5.5 million global strong GPS navigation user base, to rival Nokia’s GPS navigation. Navmii, which launched the application two years ago, claimes it is now the number one mobile GPS navigation app in nine countries, and it is growing by 500,000 new users per month on iPhone and Android.
March 22, 2012 Read time: 2 mins
Navfree has announced it has reached its goal of building a 5.5 million global strong GPS navigation user base, to rival 183 Nokia’s GPS navigation. 2196 Navmii, which launched the application two years ago, claimes it is now the number one mobile GPS navigation app in nine countries, and it is growing by 500,000 new users per month on iPhone and 1812 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.

“When we launched the product two years ago I remember people saying that it was impossible to compete with the likes of 1692 TomTom and Nokia for satellite navigation on the mobile phones,” commented Peter Atalla, CEO of Navmii. “Two years later Navfree has attracted 5.5 million users, and is ahead of Nokia with a European market share of eight per cent in mobile GPS navigation.”

Navfree, which is free to download and offers all the functionality expected from satellite navigation, comprises of data gathered by millions of people around the world, to guide users around different countries, cities, towns and villages, powered by Openstreetmap. It is claimed that, with over 20,000 map corrections made every month by users of Navfree, the app gets more and more accurate. And unlike many GPS navigation apps, Navfree stores all map data on the phone. As a result, it doesn’t rely on a data signal to work and protects users from expensive mobile data charges.
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