Google provides navigation applications based on GPS (global positioning system), it is free for smartphones that use the Android platform. The application called Google Maps Navigation will be available first on Motorola Droid which will be released for Verizon in the US, November 6, 2009.
Compared to general navigation applications, Google Maps Navigation has a number of advantages. New applications that can work on Android 2.0 operating system is not only provides standard features like GPS navigation applications display three-dimensional maps and directions with voice guidance. However, the application also provides other features such as voice search, traffic information, satellite map, “street view”, to photograph the object goals. In fact, with this application, users can find routes to a number of important locations such as gas stations or restaurants.
Google Maps Navigation presence is expected to be a major competitor navigation solutions are already widely available on the market. For example an application made by Garmin or TomTom. With one’s application, Verizon called Motorola Droid as challenger Apple iPhone and the BlackBerry by Research In Motion.
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