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Google Maps on Cell Phones is Here.

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mflacy

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http://google.com/glm

Google Puts Its Maps on Phones

Search engine debuts mobile service aimed at people exploring unfamiliar locations.
November 7, 2005

As online search companies race to capture the mobile market, Google on Monday offered local maps on cell phones, along with directions, search results, business locations, and contact names.

Google Local for Mobile includes satellite imagery from the Google maps service and enables users to zoom in and out on a location, move in all directions, and drag the maps around. The service also includes detailed directions for people driving or walking.

Users go to Google.com/glm on their mobile phone?s browser to download the application. The software will only work with Java-capable phones. Users also need to have a data plan with their wireless carrier that enables them to access mobile Internet sites from their cell phones.

Shares of Google were up $4.48 to $394.91 in recent trading.

Google is competing with other search engines such as Yahoo to expand beyond the computer to stake out a place on devices like mobile phones.

On Monday, Yahoo teamed up with TiVo on a service for scheduling TV recording on TiVo boxes, and The Wall Street Journal reported that Yahoo was also planning to introduce a phone in partnership with SBC Communications (see Yahoo Meets TiVo).

Matt Waddell of the Google Mobile team even wrote a song for the Google Blog about the new service. ?Walkin? ?round a new town/looking for a way around,? he wrote. ?Askin? locals for their thoughts/?bout nearby Chinese restaurants.../they tell you to get lost?/get lost and found on your phone.?

Songs aside, the service is not likely to offer as much visual detail or clarity on most cell phones as the maps on Mountain View, California-based Google?s PC-based service.
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*waits until cnn posts articles concerning accidents caused by trying to read directions off of 1'' cell phone screens*

[PDA or > ] > *.*
 
Originally posted by: ScottSwingleComputers
Originally posted by: Aharami
great....it doesnt support verizon! :roll:
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Yea, it sucks, but I blame verizon and their BREW only POS phones 🙁
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Being a former VZ customer... what Google is offering you for free via java.. VZ would charge you $9.99 to buy and $4.99 a month to use, and then charge you for the data you incur and your mobile web. I always hated them for nickel and diming me like that.
 
Originally posted by: ironcrotch
Originally posted by: ScottSwingleComputers
Originally posted by: Aharami
great....it doesnt support verizon! :roll:
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Yea, it sucks, but I blame verizon and their BREW only POS phones 🙁
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Being a former VZ customer... what Google is offering you for free via java.. VZ would charge you $9.99 to buy and $4.99 a month to use, and then charge you for the data you incur and your mobile web. I always hated them for nickel and diming me like that.
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Yet another reason Sprint > VZW.

*now downloading*
 
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