Posts Tagged ‘Google Maps Navigation’





Google Maps Navigation available officially for Android 1.6 Donut

November 23rd, 2009 | Posted in Mobile Phones, Softwares | No Comments »

google-maps-navigationGoogle Maps Navigation was available till now (officially at least) only for Android 2.0, and therefore in this case on the Motorola Droid. The free Google GPS mobile software is now available on Android 1.6.

Google has announced the availability on the Android Market for an update of Google Maps which adds the famous Google Maps Navigation feature that will turn your gPhone into a GPS, but is only functional in the U.S. (at least officially).

This update also adds the Layers feature, which lets you add geographic information on the map, such as data from Wikipedia.

Google Maps becomes clearly an app killer… But wasn’t it already?

Google Maps Navigation on HTC Dream or HTC Magic, it’s possible

November 18th, 2009 | Posted in Softwares | No Comments »

Google Maps Navigation is a free GPS navigation software created by Google. This is normally only available with version 2.0 of Android, but as often, the developers of the XDA forum have managed to bring this software on HTC Dream and HTC Magic!

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Google Maps Navigation in beta for mobile phones under Android 2.0

October 30th, 2009 | Posted in Mobile Phones, Softwares | 1 Comment »

Google has announced a very valuable service: GPS navigation with Google Maps on mobile phones.

For now the service is in beta and is designed for mobile phones equipped with the Android 2.0 operating system.

GPS navigation on Google Maps and features:

  • You enter an address, a restaurant name, a type of restaurant, etc. The GPS tells you the route and tells you where you’re always
  • Instead of typing keyboard instructions, you can request the road by speaking (voice)
  • You can see the traffic conditions
  • Possibility to switch to Street View
  • Car dock mode: support for special car that sits on the dashboard and connects automatically to GPS mode.

The dedicated website on Google: Google Mobile Navigation

All explanations in video: