Google offers free turn-by-turn navigation for Maps

on 10/28/2009 09:47 PDT

GPS navigation software companies ought to sit up and pay close attention – the folks at Google have offered free turn-by-turn navigation service for their Maps software, and even in beta they have gotten off the right footing. Currently available only for the Android OS 2.0 platform, it will be made available to similarly powered devices when they ship, while other platform support will be announced by both carriers and phone manufacturers when the parties are ready. No reason for you to get lost now, eh?

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