Google Earth for Android Released
Today Google announced the arrival of Google Earth for Android, which will be available in the Android Market for all phones running Android 2.1. Google Earth for Android brings the full functionality of Google Earth onto your Android device. It allows you to navigate through three-dimensional images of the world, zooming into roads or flying Superman-style over mountains and lakes.
To download, search “Google Earth” in the Android Market. Since this is just for phones running Android 2.1, Droid users will have to wait until Motorola rolls out the long-awaited update.
Google Earth coming to Android phones
With all news of Google Nexux and here is the one more good news to Android Phone users, very soon Google Earth is coming to Android Phones. Google has finally brought Google Earth to its own mobile operating system, packing some improvements. Most prominent of which is voice search, which works just as you can imagine; say where you want to go, and the app will find it for you. Aside from that, details are slim, though they have no reason to be otherwise, as everybody knows how Google Earth works.
Source: Gizmodo
Motorola DROID is Official, Arrives on NOV 6
High-speed Web browsing, voice-activated search, customizable large screen, access to thousands of Android applications and hundreds of widgets and the best 3G mobile network in the country: DROID by Motorola arrives on Nov. 6.
The official specs of the Motorola DROID:
* 3.7-inch 854×480 display
* 5-megapixel camera with dual-LED flash
* DVD-quality video capture and playback (720×480)
* 16GB microSD
* QWERTY keyboard
* 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS (with Google Maps Navigation)
* Android 2.0
This is the first device in Verizon’s DROID series and my does it have a look of a winner. Stay tuned for more updates throughout the day!
Google Maps Navigation App for Android 2.0
Google on Wednesday introduced a beta version of Google Maps Navigation, an Internet-connected navigation service for mobile devices that offers turn-by-turn, GPS-guided travel directions. Google said its new Google Maps Navigation product will provide real-time, turn-by-turn directions directly within cell phones that are based on the new version of its Android software. The navigation product, which features speech recognition and a visual display that incorporates Google’s online archive of street photographs, marks the latest step by Google to challenge Apple Inc’s (AAPL.O) iPhone and Microsoft Corp’s (MSFT.O) Windows Mobile software with its Android smartphone software.
Google Maps Navigation could have a huge impact on the overall smartphone market as well. It may be the first killer app for Android, a must-have feature that lures consumers–particularly commutergoogle gpss seeking a smartphone with good nav features–away from the iPhone.