TeleNav has released its OnMyWay application for Android in the Market. OnMyWay is an easy-to-use application that will let a person or group know your travel status and estimated arrival time. Very popular on the BlackBerry platform, this …
We all love Google’s turn by turn navigation system, but many times we’re looking for a solution that works off-line. Enter NDrive — the world navigation system that stores map data on-device, ready to work with no data or WiFi connection. …
You know that Samsung Captivate ROM that’s floating around (and that we just wrote about)? This might what’s going on: We’ve all been aware of the GPS issues plaguing the Captivate and Vibrant, namely that it just plain didn’t work well unle…
Google Maps just served notice to every other location-based business app out there with the introduction of "Places." A tie-in with Google Maps, it makes it super easy to find any kind of, well, place. It’s location-based, so it knows where …
Hot on the heels of Google Voice opening up, here comes an update to Google Maps for Android. Version 4.3 brings the following improvements:Location ratings: Service suck? You’ll find out here. The atmosphere less than romantic? You’ll know in advance….
Today, Google expanded its Google Maps Navigation system to cover 11 more countries: Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland for Android devices running Donut (Android 1.6) and higher. The turn-by-turn directions can be read in the language of your choice and the voice destination search works with the accuracy that we’ve come to expect from Google in French, German, Italian and Spanish for Éclair (Android 2.0/2.1) and up. All of the Google Maps features are enabled in the supported countries, street view, POI search, gas stations, etc. Although Google Maps and Navigation is always a free service, it’s important to remember if you’re traveling, although the Map and Navigation service may be free, the data connection used to run it most certainly is not. [via Google Mobile Blog]
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If you’re chomping at the bit for the T-Mobile Garminfone, you shouldn’t have to wait too much longer. A mere $199 (or $450 off contract) will get you the Garmin-Asus special sauce of turn-by-turn navigation, on top of Android 1.6 on a 3.5-inch display, and it’s coming in June. Yeah, we’re excited, too. [Phonescoop]
It sure is nice when the folks building your operating system also make some of the best applications around. Proof — Google Maps for Android’s new updates. Little things make for great software, and the Google maps app is chock full of them. Today’s update brings biking directions, a direct shortcut to turn by turn navigation in the app drawer, and the coolest new feature is destination sharing. Enter your destination and you can now share the address with your friends via email or SMS, as well as popular social media sites like Facebook, Buzz or Twitter. Open your market app and update maps to check out the new features. Android 1.6+ only. Sorry Cupcakers. [via Google Mobile Blog]
Here we go again. First it’s Samsung going with Yahoo services, and now comes word that Motorola’s switching to Skyhook for its location-based services over Google. Devices with the new service will "begin shipping later this year," Skyhook says, and "will have the ability to better support a new wave of location-aware applications by leveraging Skyhook’s precise, reliable and fast-performing location engine."
Hey, fair enough. No reason why it shouldn’t be as good or better than Google’s default services, right? [via Engadget]
Not a whole lot to say here other than it’s the T-Mobile Garminfone in the wild, aka the Garmin-Asus nuvifone A50 that we saw a couple of months ago at Mobile World Congress. Android is still skinned pretty heavily, as the focus remains on navigation (natch). We’re still expecting Android 1.6 with a 600MHz processor. 512MB of ROM are confirmed, along with 3GB or so of internal storage. Still no word on when to expect it, other than "spring." [via TMo News]
