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Nov
24
2009

Google Maps Navigation now available for Android 1.6

| November 24, 2009 09:40 UTC | Comments: |

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A few weeks ago we launched Google Maps Navigation (Beta) as a free feature of Google Maps on Android 2.0 devices. Today we’re expanding availability of Google Maps Navigation to devices running Android 1.6 (Donut) and higher, such as the T-Mobile myTouch 3G and the G1.

The Google Maps Navigation is only available in the US at the moment. It’s possible that this application will not see the light of day in Europe any time soon. Google uses their own maps in the US, when in other parts of the world they use maps from Tele Atlas and NAVTEQ. No official word of this is heard, but it could be at least one of the reasons.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGXK4jKN_jY

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