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Free sat nav for Blackberry 8900??

Hi I am looking for a free sat nav for my BB8900?? Any idea anyone??
Many thanks!!

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  • Lugh_Chronain
    Lugh_Chronain Posts: 6,867 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic Combo Breaker
    edited 30 October 2010 at 11:58PM
    Try Telmap5.

    They are currently accepting new users with the following devices:
    - BlackBerry 9700, 9000, 8900
    - Sony Ericsson C905, C903, W995, W760, W715, C702, B170

    The following languages are supported: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Hebrew.

    Telmap5 offers:
    - Full-featured in-car navigation with moving maps and sound instructions with street names
    - Turn-by-turn pedestrian navigation with moving maps that follow your location and bread-crumbs for orientation
    - Simple and easy one-line search for anything you need
    - Widgets that let you personalize your experience for in-car navigation, pedestrian navigation and mapping
    - Rich UI with animations, shadowing and graphic effects – all based on a map
    - Weather information for any location
    - Cell-ID positioning technology lets you use mapping and local search even when you are indoors with no GPS fix
    - Tiled maps for quicker map download and smooth panning
    - And much more…

    You have to register with the site before you can download anything. You have to register your details with them to get Telmap5 as you need to join the 'Telmap user group'. It's completely free. And the direct link to register and receive your download is:

    http://global.telmap.com/tugpcbeta/

    Note: this software is a "beta" software. Back up your device before installing as it won't be covered by your network provider if it kills your device.

    Got this information from HotUKDeals.
  • alirob12
    alirob12 Posts: 809 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    ace worked well!!

    Thx!!
  • Fantastic! The guy who originally posted this actually managed to download it onto his BlackBerry 9700. He said it's the best Sat-Nav app he's ever used.

    I'm really pleased it works well.
  • alirob12
    alirob12 Posts: 809 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    it works really well, and i think it may be the best one i ve used as well... so many thanks for posting!!
  • No problem, always a pleasure to help out.
  • the sat nav works swell on the bb 9700. Brilliant -
    Now here's to hoping Vodafone dont secretly charge me somewhere :T
  • gunner1
    gunner1 Posts: 2 Newbie
    thanks Lugh :-)
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