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Google Maps Navigation takes a mobile turn
Google Maps Navigation takes a mobile turn
Don't try this on game day, but the new Google Maps Navigation application will show you how to take a spin past Boston's Fenway Park. (Credit: Google) You can almost hear the portable navigation industry swearing already. Google is announcing plans Wednesday to release a new ...
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Official Google Blog: Announcing Google Maps Navigation for Android 2.0
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News: Free Google turn-by-turn GPS coming to iPhone
iLounge | All Things iPod, iPhone, iTunes and beyond — ... data, as well as new features like voice-assisted turn-by-turn navigation, integration with Satellite and Street View, and the ability to search along the selected route for upcoming points of interest like gas stations and restaurants. The application will launch with Android 2.0 on the Motorola Droid, which will be available on Verizon on November 6, and will be featured on other upcoming GPS-capable Android 2.0 devices. Google’s Vice President of Engineering, Vic Gundotra, also confirmed that the company is currently working with Apple to bring the application to the ...

Google Navigation coming to the iPhone Maps.app?
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence — Google today introduced a new (kind of amazing) Navigation app for Android 2.0.  This application is only avaialble at the moment as a beta for the Droid phone on Verizon but Google is apparently working with Apple on bringing it to the iPhone. Accordding to CNET it isn't just the iPhone, Google isn't ruling out licensing the software to makers of portable navigation devices used in cars throughout the world, said Gundotra, vice president of engineering at Google for mobile and developers. The process involving Apple is slightly different ...

Google Plans to Introduce Maps Navigation, Could Come to iPhone
TheAppleBlog — ... According to CNET’s Tom Krazit, Google’s new app, appropriately dubbed Google Maps Navigation, was demoed Tuesday for reporters, and will be officially announced sometime today. The Google demo had the app running on an unidentified black Motorola Android 2.0 phone, believed to be the upcoming Droid device. ...

Google Announces Maps Navigation for Android 2.0
Mac|Life — ... The first phone to have Google Maps Navigation and Andoid 2.0 will be the Droid from Verizion, but Google's Vic Gundotra said Google is working with Apple to bring the application to the iPhone. Saying, "The process involving Apple is slightly different from the usual App Store submission process, because Maps is a built-in iPhone application." ...

Google Maps Navigation Might Come to iPhone
EverythingiCafe — ... CNet is reporting that Google is trying to get the program onto the iPhone, if Apple will approve it. If it gets through, its better than any other free GPS app in the app store, and probably some of the paid ones. Of course, given the trouble Google had getting Voice, its other fantastic free program onto the iPhone, which led to FCC involvement, who knows what will happen. We’re really hoping this one comes through as it sounds like a killer app. ...

Google working with Apple to bring advanced map navigation to the iPhone?
iPhone J.D. — ... , the Vice-President of Engineering at Google who is responsible for mobile phone applications, may have said that the technology is coming to the iPhone, it just depends on which report you read.  CNet reporter Tom Krazit says definitively that "Google is working with Apple on bringing it to the iPhone," and the hold up is simply that Google needs to work closely with Apple because Maps is a built-in iPhone application.  Similarly, Quentin Hardy ...

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