Google Maps Released for Windows Mobile

Posted By: Ryan Thursday, February 1, 2007 3:00:57 PM

Google has just released Google Maps for mobile for Windows Mobile devices, including the Palm Treo 750, 700wx and 700w smartphones. Palm and Google originally announced availability of this service on Palm OS-based Treo products in October 2006 and now it is expanding across Palm's entire U.S.-based Treo smartphone line. This version of Google Maps for mobile enables users to view interactive maps and satellite imagery, find local businesses, get point-to-point driving directions, and view live traffic updates. The Windows Mobile 5.0 version of Google Maps for mobile is also GPS-enabled, allowing users whose mobile devices support GPS functionality to view their current location.

Google Maps Windows MobileGoogle Maps for mobile on Windows Mobile is optimized for the platform, with device-specific features such as contacts integration and tap-and-hold menus. On GPS-enabled devices running Windows Mobile 5.0, Google Maps for mobile tells users where they are without requiring them to enter their location. The application automatically displays the user's current location on the map as a flashing blue dot, and factors in that location whenever users search for local businesses or request driving directions.

Google Maps for mobile is a free application that was first released in the U.S. in November 2005, and is now available in the U.S. on most J2ME-enabled devices, all color BlackBerry devices, and all Palm devices running OS 5 and above. To download Google Maps for mobile, point your mobile or desktop web browser to www.google.com/gmm.

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Bye, Telenav....

freakout @ 2/1/2007 8:52:54 PM # Q
Google Maps for mobile on Windows Mobile is optimized for the platform, with device-specific features such as contacts integration and tap-and-hold menus. On GPS-enabled devices running Windows Mobile 5.0, Google Maps for mobile tells users where they are without requiring them to enter their location. The application automatically displays the user's current location on the map as a flashing blue dot, and factors in that location whenever users search for local businesses or request driving directions.

It's still lacking voice directions, but surely that'll be one of the next steps. Wouldn't want to be Telenav...

RE: Bye, Telenav....
LiveFaith @ 2/1/2007 11:05:03 PM # Q
The Palm OS version is one excellent and simple piece of work. If this WinMob version is even close it will be good. I am repeatedly amazed at how this company envisions and produces software apps. Google Maps for Palm OS skips so many needless and binding steps that I can imagine the "same" app written by others might have. It seems that they just throw away conventional approaches and put themselves in the seat of the user, attempting to deliver results.

Oh that Palm OS would have been purchased by these guys for the next go around. Or Windows OS for that matter! The same (distant past BTW) minimalist design and implementation was the power that drew me to my original Palm IIIe. Those days are distant memories.

Pat Horne

RE: Bye, Telenav....
joad @ 2/2/2007 2:46:15 AM # Q
Yup. Google should just put a month's fooseball money into a fund to scoop up Palm Inc and Access and put the people that designed Googlemaps on the project to reinvigorate the PDA/Smartphone. The only times Palm made any decent innovation in the past few years is when they stole (or bought) ideas from competitors. Now that Sony, Handera, Handspring, Garmin and others have bailed out, Palm is so deep in stasis that they're using Windows Mobile as some sort of "innovation."

The fact Palm hasn't figured out how to increase the clipboard from 4K in over 10 years is proof enough of their failing. Put some new blood hungry enough to dream into Palm and they could do wonders. Imagine the same intelligence appearing within Googlemaps put into the basic Palm PIMs - it would make Palm worth a damn again. It would be the opposite of what 3Com did to that company...

RE: Bye, Telenav....
LiveFaith @ 2/2/2007 9:56:41 AM # Q
"Palm is so deep in stasis that they're using Windows Mobile as some sort of "innovation."

The fact Palm hasn't figured out how to increase the clipboard from 4K in over 10 years is proof enough of their failing."

... more truth in those two statements than the mainstream news media delivered in all of 06'.

Pat Horne

RE: Bye, Telenav....
theog @ 2/2/2007 7:51:30 PM # Q
LiveFaith, the 700wx works fairly well...

I have a laptop in my car for directions, but I would use this in a crunch....

Vote for John Kerry... best man for the job.

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