Google Maps for Android updated to 4.4, adds dedicated ‘Places’ for searching nearby
Ready to suck down your sixth Google Maps for Android update in the past six months? Good.
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: compass, google-maps, googlemaps, maps, months, operating, place-pages, station, update
RIM finally catches up to the competition with non-GPS-based BlackBerry ‘Locate Service’
It's hardly the first company to implement the technology in a smartphone, but it looks like RIM finally has an answer for folks not satisfied with the GPS capabilities of their BlackBerry. It's now announced the simply-named 'Locate Service' for developers, which relies on cell tower triangulation to to either augment the phone's built-in GPS, or completely replace it when a GPS signal isn't available. According to RIM, the service also includes a set of components that "integrate seamlessly" with the BlackBerry Maps and Contacts applications and, of course, the GPS capabilities of the device
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: BlackBerry, Capabilities, Cell Towers, celltowers, engadget, entry, locate service, maps, phone, result, signal, smartphone, technology, triangulation
BMW’s Pathfinder ‘microNavigation’ system promises to augment GPS
BMW has been working on augmenting GPS navigation for some time now, and it took another big step forward in recent weeks with the announcement of its Pathfinder "microNavigation" system. As the name suggests, that would supplement your basic navigation system with maps and directions for areas not covered by GPS -- a parking lot, for instance -- and it could be continually updated on an as-needed basis, with users able to download so-called microMaps for a specific area before they go on a trip
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: announcement, car, does-at-least, journey, Lot, maps, micronavigation, navigation-app, parking, phone, result, specific-area
Google Maps on Android updated, adds full public transit schedules
You always knew that Google Maps had 'em -- schedule a trip on public transit and the app would tell you exactly when the next few trains or buses would arrive (or, at least, were supposed to arrive). But, getting to the full schedules yourself was never possible
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: businesses, engadget, entry, expensive-taxi, google-android, google-maps, googlelatitude, Latitude, maps, restaurants, taxi, train
Nokia updates N900 to version 1.2 in UK, closes door on MeeGo
You've overclocked it and hacked it to run OS X and Android , now you can return your N900 to its native Maemo 5 OS with the launch of a version 1.2 software update. The V10.2010.19-1 bump now available in the UK (global on Wednesday) packs several enhancements including face-to-face video calling, improved Ovi Maps, and a better email experience with bundled Facebook IM Chat and the ability to accept or decline event invitations from the inbox. You'll also see a number of new games when the Ovi Store switches over on Thursday
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: 1.2, base, fan, intel, launch, maemo, maps, nokia, ovi store, softwareupdate
British garbage collectors to get 1,500 BlackBerrys
First it was the rozzers , now British bin men are getting BlackBerrys as part of their job equipment pack. Biffa, a private garbage collection firm responsible for cleaning up 25 local authorities around the UK, has agreed a
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone Tags: capital, data, dongles, maps, rubbish collection, surveillancesociety, trashcollection, vodafone-uk
LG’s Windows Phone 7 phone caught in the wild, looking good
Been wondering how that LG proto unit debuted on The Engadget Show is doing?
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: confirmation, from-the-meetup, lgpanther, london, maps, meetup, panther, result, slider, stardom, united-kingdom
Google Maps for Android adds bike routes, sharing, dedicated navigation icon
If you're running an Android phone and you're lucky enough to be using 1.6 or above (our deepest apologies, CLIQ owners), we might recommend you pop open the Market and score the latest version of Google Maps that just launched today. What's new
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: apologies, cliq, facebook, google-maps, makes-it-quite, maps, result
Nokia Ovi Maps let you do navigation instructions with your Own Voice
Yo TomTom , wake up and smell the competition. While the original gangster of navigation devices is still mulling over an app store, Nokia has raised the smartphone pathfinding bar a little higher by letting people record (and share) their own voice instructions. It's not the most complex process in the world, you just get the extra Own Voice app to go with the latest version of Ovi Maps and set your vocal talents free
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: handset, instructions, maps, nokia, result, silliness, smartphone, vocal, voice
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