Google Maps Goes Mobile The Smart PDA

Reuters reports today that Google Maps has gone mobile. Users can download the utility by visiting www.google.com/gmm on their mobile phone's browser. Significant exceptions from the list of supported devices include Palm OS devices and some models carried by US service providers, although Google is working to make provisions for them. [...] Read More


Google Maps Mobile now has Voice Recognition The Smart PDA

Google has moved its popular Google Maps Mobile application one step ahead and added Voice Recognition to it. This allows users to easily search for their desired location by just saying where they want to go. This is a beta version for test purposes and it is currently available on a limited range of handsets including Blackberry Pearl 8110, 8120, or 8130. Here's how you use it. You simply hold the [...] Read More


Windows Mobile Welcomes Google Maps The Smart PDA

Looks like Google Maps now has most smartphones and PDA phones covered. First it went mobile via Java MIDP2. This included a lot of Symbian smartphones. Then, somewhere along the way, a Palm OS version was made for the Treo 600, 650, 680 and 700p. Looks like the circle's complete. The Official Google Blog recently announced (somewhat indirectly) that Google Maps is now available for Windows Mobile. As long as you [...] Read More


Google Unveils Google Maps Mobile The Gadgets Weblog

I have to admit: if I had a cellphone on Sprint or Cingular or had a Blackberry, I'd be all over the release of the new version ofGoogle Maps Mobile (GMM). Living in New York City, where traffic reports cover such a large area that each traffic report only covers a small part of the whole, it would be great to know whether I'm heading into disaster as I pull [...] Read More


Google Maps goes native UIQ Tech Without Wires

Google Maps seems to be getting into a lot of places. The photo above is Google Maps on the iPhone. Whilst it is also available on other platforms as a JavaME application, today, Google Maps is available as a native Symbian S60 UIQ application. It also available as a native Windows Mobile application. With these geo-location-based features built into mobile phones, the next generation of spam^H^H^H^H adverts will not be too [...] Read More