Google updates Maps for Windows Mobile
This seems to be the week for Google’s mobile app updates, right? The company has just released a revamped version of the Google Maps for Windows Mobile. The new version comes complete with a couple of changes, including functional route mapping and clearly marked turn-points on every loaded map. The new version is also the first to be released as a stand-alone native Windows Mobile app, having graduated from Java-midlet status. The updates, which bring the software up to version 1.7.1.4, are certainly welcome, but they still fail to bring Google Maps up to par with some of the other mobile mapping solutions currently available. Sure, it’s free, but voice commands never hurt anyone, right?
This is not the first Java less Google Map app. The previous version was native as well.
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–Sal-
“The new version is also the first to be released as a stand-alone native Windows Mobile app, having graduated from Java-midlet status.”
Um, WOW. What horrible reporting that is. Google Maps has been available as a native Windows Mobile app for ages. Where have you guys been?
This news is soooo old.
Look on the bright side … Looks like BG is **still** looking for good writers!
haha I didn’t even bother to put this on my blog. I am surprised bg.
Wow. Lol I would not have expected this kind of crap from the BG. Doesn’t he filter out the writers who know nothing or for some reason ove to stay a year or more behind the times?
Not only has the Google maps app been native for a while, but the screenshot is outdated too – the new app has the iPhone style dropping pins.
JK drops the bomb again! heh.
However, this new Google Maps certainly IS missing the quick icons the Palm OS version has.
What I find more comical than this is that almost all of the other mobile phone / PDA blogs have picked up this story and quoted (sourced) this posting on BGR complete with the “The new version is also the first to be released as a stand-alone native Windows Mobile app, having graduated from Java-midlet status.”
Even the WinMo blogs didn’t weed out the misinformation or at least make a correction.
It puts in perspective just how lightly you have to take the blog reports. I very much appreciate them, though.