Competitors under pressure

Competitors under pressure
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What Google is pleased fans expected for cell phone manufacturers and developers gloomy mood of mobile navigation software - especially for companies that work to date on their own Android-Navi programs. Nokia has for some time about his navigation maps installed on all their phones with integrated GPS chip. While you can use for free the associated maps, navigation functions are enabled only for payment. Calculate the price in a complex thicket of the Finns prices between 1.59 per day and 60 euros per year.

Among the winners of Google's trend-setting decision, however, belongs to Motorola. For years, the Group limbo with his mobile phone on the edge of perception. This legendary Motorola RAZR V3 clamshell was earlier a subscription to the site of the popular phones in the U.S.. An even remotely similar to the successful successor, the company was not present, put out a flop after another, and finally had to report a quarterly loss of 231 million U.S. dollars.

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Now, before the navigation buttons to Google: With the free Google Maps Mobile software navigation of the Web could make giant expensive RouteFinder soon unnecessary - if a few small but crucial problems to be solved.

What Google for its Google Maps software promises menu reads like the wish list one Navi nerds. Of course there is the usual route planning, spoken and on screen. But that's not all: Google Maps navigation is can be controlled with voice commands. In addition, the software was designed so that they can recognize when you put his phone in a car holder. The user then changes their appearance and uses larger buttons that are to be served well by the driver's seat.

In addition, the software delivers features such as a search for points of interest, the POI (Points of Interest) along the route. Restaurants, gas stations and movie theaters will be so easy to find. The necessary data, the program loads - logical - from the network. In addition, Google provides a little extra with: Google Streetview. If desired, namely, the software provides the environment is not only a card or card with 3D effect, but makes use of the photographed Streetview street views (see video below).

All of this is semi-free, because "free" offer is only for users who have a data flat rate. All others pay for the navigation, because the phone will need to continuously recharge cards.