Google Maps Navigation comes to Canada and mainland Europe, remains free as a bird
Patience has had to be your foremost virtue if you were eager to use Google Maps Navigation outside the US or UK , but you might be in luck today as a sizable new batch of countries is getting the free turn-by-turn nav service activated. Googleites in Canada and most of mainland Europe will now be able to hear their Android (version 1.6 and above) giving them voice directions, and as an extra bonus, some nations are also seeing voice search activated, with Canada and German-speaking countries among them. Google's clearly not sitting on its laurels here, so why not power up your phone and let us know how well it finds its way around De Wallen?
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: austria, denmark, directions, entry, europe, freenavigation, google-maps-navigation, googlemapsnavigation, netherlands, patience, satnav, spain, voicesearch, wallen
Google Maps Navigation could come to iPhone, other platforms soon
Ooh, goodie! Try as we may, we've yet to really find a (good) free alternative to Google Maps Navigation on the iPhone, and while Navigon's MobileNavigator gets our highest recommendations in the paid GPS department, Google's own turn-by-turn option is just about enough to make any iPhone-toting traveler jump ship and snag an Android handset.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: entry, google-maps, google-maps-navigation, highest, iphone, maps, mobilenavigator, platforms, predicament, route, routing
Google Maps Navigation makes trip across the pond, thanks to some hackery
Apparently us Yanks have been spoiled by the warm embrace of Google Maps Navigation , forgetting that our friends in the UK don't have the same luxury. Leave it to Electricpig to connect worlds, finding a somewhat hack-induced way to bring the app upgrade to British Android 1.6 devices . Instructions are pretty easy, so if you're game, don your DIY hat and click over
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: europe, google-maps, google-maps-navigation, googlemaps, gps, great britain, htc, mapsnavigation, neutral, replies, report, taxes, united-kingdom, unitedkingdom
Google Maps Navigation hacked for extra-American use
Guess what, prospective Milestone owners, the Droid's one major advantage over its Euro cousin has just been coded out of existence by those proactive, un-American XDA Developers . The free Google Maps Navigation service, whose US announcement was so shocking as to decimate the stock prices of satnav purveyors Garmin and TomTom, has now been ported to work outside the land of the free as well. Not only that, but you can use the app on other Android devices, meaning your old G1 can get a breath of fresh air for absolutely free.
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: engadget, google-maps-navigation, googlemaps, googlemapsnavigation, gps, hacked, htc, moto, motorola, motoroladroid, motorolamilestone
Google Maps Navigation on your Mobile Phone – Google Android 2.0 …
The highly-rumored turn-by-turn navigation service, about which, Google was thought of functioning secretly, has finally been surfaced.
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, htc, Mobile Phone, nintendo, Other Tags: canon, digital-camera, google-maps, google-maps-navigation, internet, microsoft, nintendo, nokia, technology
Killer App: Google Maps Navigation for Android 2.0 ~ Web Upd8
satellite view or street View. - car dock mode. For certain devices, placing your phone in a car dock activates a special mode that makes it easy to use your device at arm's length
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other, Phone Street Tags: facebook, firefox, google-maps-navigation, Mobile Phone, singapore, technology, ubuntu, web, windows, work