The announcement of Google offering navigation software has got many of the GPS navigation companies like TomTom and Garmin into trouble.  The announcement from Nokia will get them into more troubles. Nokia has just announced to offer their Ovi Maps turn-by-turn navigation software free for Nokia smartphone users.  And the offer is global.  It covers 74 countries in 46 languages — a move that should cover 20 million smartphones globally with Ovi Maps available in [...]

When the Google Maps Navigation beta was launched few weeks back, it was only for Android 2.0 devices.  Good news for other Android users, Google has just made it available for the Android 1.6 devices.  Sadly, Android 1.5 devices are not supported at this moment. Google Maps Navigation is an enhanced Google Maps version that supports turn-by-turn voice guidence for mobile devices.  It is at the moment supporting American maps only.  Combined with Street Views [...]

As many of you have already known, the new Motorola DROID comes with a beta version of Google Map with turn-by-turn navigation. There is a good news for people who own a G1 (Dream) phone in US.  Hackers from XDA-Developers have ported the application to the G1 phone (Dream).  Although the Google Navigation is meant for Android 2.0 phones, but it is running fine on the old G1. However, since Google Navigation is only working [...]

It’s not a rumour any more, Google has officially announced Google Maps for Mobile, the turn-by-turn navigation on Google Maps for Android 2.0 devices. This featureis one of the most wanted for Google Maps and now it is available on beta.  The latest Motorola Droid is loaded with Android 2.0 and thus has the free navigation software by Google.  According to the press: This new feature comes with everything you’d expect to find in a [...]