Free GPS navigation to mobile phones – Courtesy Google
New "Droid" Smartphone with GPS device
Cell phone technology takes a new turn, with sophisticated technology advancement enabled by Google coming into effect. The Internet giant has unveiled Global Positioning System (GPS) – a free navigation system for mobile phones. News is Verizon Wireless, the US telecom carrier, and Motorola, the renowned handset maker also from US have announced simultaneously their Smartphone “Droid” to hit the market next week with the feature of very first Google Maps Navigation.
The new Smartphone Droid is powered by Android 2.0 software, which is Google’s potential operating system. Droid would eventually be a threat to Blackberry from Research in Motion and iPhone from Apple. The new phone will be priced at 200 dollars.
The Google Maps Navigation is a facility which contains many features like 3D map views and voice guidance on every turn, through the Smartphone running on Android 2.0 software. Further, the users can make voice search in English, get live traffic updates, satellite images from Google Maps and also real time ground-level pictures of intended destinations as “street-view”. For example they will be able to locate restaurants or gas stations enroute.
The Droid smart phones with the present features of touch-screen, QWERTY keyboard sliding out, 5 mega-pixel camera with DVD quality video and playback – are slated for scale in the United States from 6th November.
Will this be a challenge to the standalone GPS devices manufactured by TomTom of Netherlands and Garmin of the United States, which are used by drivers already on the roads? Mixed responses are available in the industry circles – some saying the display is too small and would not be comfortable for drivers and some others of the opinion that Global Positioning Devices from hand phones will speed up the trip. Only time will tell.
Did you enjoy this post? Why not leave a comment below and continue the conversation, or subscribe to my feed and get articles like this delivered automatically to your feed reader.
Comments
No comments yet.
Leave a comment