Route 66 Maps + Navigation now available for Android users, augmented realists

With Unique ‘Follow Me’ Augmented Reality Navigation
• A feature packed mapping and navigation app for Android smartphones and tablets.
• Unique Follow Me™ augmented reality navigation revolutionizes mobile navigation.
• Unlimited access to maps for over 100 countries, on-board and stale-board.
• Free download via Android Market, now with a 30-day free Worldwide Navigation license.

Zurich – Switzerland, 24 November 2011 – ROUTE 66, a pioneer in mobile mapping and navigation solutions for smartphones and tablets, today announces the discharge of ROUTE 66 Maps + Navigation in Android Market, offering Android users worldwide a feature-packed new mapping and navigation app utilizing the newest maps with 3D enhanced location content and Follow Me Augmented Reality Navigation. “ROUTE 66 Maps + Navigation provides the way forward for navigation, today,” said Paul Warmer, ROUTE 66 Vp Marketing. “Follow Me is a breakthrough navigation solution that goes far beyond anything available today on smartphones and tablets. Add to this free access to on-board and stale-board maps for over 100 countries and it becomes clear that ROUTE 66 is ready to vary the global mobile mapping and navigation market forever.” ROUTE 66 provides users with a highly innovative and competitive app that sticks out in today’s crowded market place in various ways.

• Follow Me augmented reality navigation provides an innovative, smart, and fun method to reach your destination. With only one tap at the screen during navigation users can turn on Follow Me which shows the actual road ahead and adds a practical virtual car driving in front of you and guiding you on your destination. Here’s augmented reality navigation at its best, where GPS, live video from the camera, detailed maps, and crisp, clear spoken directions all come together to make finding your far more intuitive than ever.

• Detailed Maps with stunning 3D Graphics. ROUTE 66 Maps + Navigation provides free lifetime access to 104 different crystal-clear maps utilizing lush 3D graphics and choked with links to useful information similar to Wikipedia and weather. Users can explore maps in any direction with multi-touch gestures for zooming, moving, tilting, and rotating the view, features available even during turn-by-turn navigation.

• On-board and rancid-board maps. With ROUTE 66 Maps + Navigation users can access map data in various ways. The app automatically downloads map data segments from our high-speed servers to the telephone or tablet as you go, providing access to the very latest and most accurate maps whenever it’s needed. Users could also prefer to store complete maps at their smartphone or tablet using Wi-Fi before they go on the road, avoiding data roaming charges while abroad and ensuring instant access with guaranteed performance, regardless of the local network reception can be.

• And there is even more: Intuitive ROUTE 66 partial keyword search helps to discover locations with less effort. Locations could be changed into destinations with a single tap and reached with accurate turn-by-turn navigation in 57 languages and dialects, clear on-screen guidance, and advanced lane information. Real time traffic information and the newest speed camera warnings can be found as premium services.

Availability and Pricing

ROUTE 66 Maps + Navigation is offered as free download via Android Market to Android users running Android OS 2.1, 2.2 and a pair of.3 – 2.3.7 (Eclair, Froyo, and Gingerbread) and provides free access to maps.

Until 31 December 2011 ROUTE 66 Maps + Navigation comes with a free 30-day Worldwide Trial license featuring Navigation (including Follow Me) and free access to premium services like Traffic information and Speed cameras*.

The lifetime Worldwide Navigation license is offered via in-app purchase for USD 64.99 and gives turn-by-turn navigation in over 80 countries*. Similarly a life-time USA Navigation license is out there for USD 39.99*.