Tuesday was the day, when Nav N Go announced that they are having no business relationship with Mio in the future. This news way maybe the most unexpected and most shocking event at CeBIT. We have reported about the events here, than we had the opportunity of talking to Mio's European director about the fate of Mio's customers, how do they get updates and how is the company trying to handle the situation. This interview can be read here.

Today, upon traveling back home from CeBIT, we managed to call Mr. Fazakas András, COO at Nav N Go, who kindly answered all of our questions, thus relatively clearing up the situation.

We are restricted from knowing the reason for Nav N Go canceling the contract, as it had a secrecy part too. The press has a guess that the decision was made because Mio, after buying development company Navman, has embedded this engine in their new products, no matter that at the time of C620's announcement it seemed that new navis are also coming with the system built on iGO8.

Mr. Fazakas told us, that with a single exception (this is the Mio C310) all Mio devices are running a modified version of iGO, called MioMap, for which the software background is provided by Nav N Go, but end-users have a contract with Mio and updated were not from Nav N Go, but from Mio - of course with the use of iGO data. As from now on Nav N Go is not transmitting any kind of data to Mio, the current MioMap software cannot be updated (except the case of C310), so Mio has to find a different solution. As we have already written, Mio, instead/during the upgrade of current iGO-based MioMap software, will make them more "Navman-like" and if this is not preferred by end-users, than that's "their problem", but they can only complain at Mio, as they have contract with them. It is not yet known how serious a problem will this be for Mio. Neither nav N Go, nor Mio can guess what kind of annoyance (or resignation) will this step cause for end-users.

Nav N Go, however, doesn't have to take care of this, in terms of the law. They highly discourage everyone of tampering with their device's operating system, if it's not a PDA (navis usually have Windows CE), as with this the user might get in conflict with Microsoft - the owner cannot alter the WinCE system without the approval of the giant from Redmond.

Nav N Go strongly hopes that a solution acceptable by Mio users is to be made, but they will be concentrating their newly freed resources (due to the end of the partnership with Mio) to other partners, as there are lots of them, including Asus, HP and Sony. Mr. Fazakas told us that feedbacks from professionals are basically about the same thing: Nav N Go probably had it's reasons for canceling the contract and now everyone is trying to guess what effects will these have on the company and Mio. Generally professionals have the opinion that Mio didn't make a good decision, however at the same time Mio's director mentioned financial reasons in connection with the events.