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Google Maps for mobile launches in the UK

Crave In order to use Google Maps on your mobile phone, it needs to supports Java applications, which most medium to high-end mobile phones sold in the last two years do. Today Google announced it's launching the Google Map service for mobiles in the UK.

Tags: google, google maps, google map, mobiles

9 May 2007, 14:38

Hands-on with the iPod touch January software update

Crave The iPhone had maps and email from day one. Google Maps look terrific and the satellite imagery is a huge bonus. At his keynote earlier this week, Apple founder Steve Jobs told us we could get five iPhone apps on the iPod touch for £12.99.

Tags: apple, screens, locations, maps

17 January 2008, 9:41

Nokia 6210 Navigator: GPS even without a SIM

Crave In many ways it's a standard phone, but combined with Nokia's new Maps 2.0 software, the GPS lets you navigate through streets and cities either in-car like a normal sat-nav system, or on foot, where the Maps app offers pedestrian-centric...

Tags: nokia, car, megapixel, connectivity

11 February 2008, 9:50

iPhone to hit US shops this month

Crave The adverts, which are as slick as usual, go over all the iPhone's features, including maps, music, pictures, video, Web browsing and calls, of course. As standard, the iPhone comes with the Google Maps mobile app, which not only lets you find out...

4 June 2007, 12:42

Sony NV-U82, NV-U92T, NV-U52 and NV-U72T sat-navs

Crave The NV-U82 comes with 512MB of on-board memory and is pre-loaded with individual country maps. The NV-U92T (top right) is very similar to the NV-U82 but comes with 2GB of on-board memory, which holds all the European maps as well as featuring TMC...

Tags: sony, pre, country, maps

28 March 2007, 12:25

Top ten geek holiday destinations

Crave Its next launch is very specifically scheduled for 11.38am EDT on 23 October.Further Reading: hereGoogle Earth link: hereGoogle Maps link: here Google Maps link: here Google Maps link: here Jodrell Bank has contributed research towards the study of...

24 September 2007, 14:22

Photos: A closer look at Google's Android user interface

Crave Android fully supports Google apps such as Google Maps, and allows applications to interact with each other across the platform. If you're sent an address in a text message, for example, you could click on it and see it in Google Maps.

13 November 2007, 11:27

Binatone Carrera X350: Zebra-print sat-nav for £80

Crave UK and Ireland maps are installed as standard, but if you opt for the Europe-wide coverage then you'll be looking at an extra £40, taking the cost up to £120. With the UK maps you get thousands of points-of-interest pre-installed on the device, so...

Tags: maps, installed, pen, nav

18 April 2008, 12:09

iPhone vs Sony Ericsson W950i vs Nokia N95 vs LG Prada

Crave Apple has partnered with Google and Yahoo to bring maps and email to the device. It runs on the Symbian OS v9.1 and uses the UIQ 3 user interface, which means you can run a variety of Symbian software on it including translators, maps and games.

22 January 2007, 12:03

Five of the best services for your mobile phone

Crave Alternatively, if you'd rather walk back but you're not sure how to get home, you can download the Google Maps mobile application. Downloading and using Google Maps will incur a data charge, so make sure you know how many megabytes you get free...

Tags: emails, song, charge, maps

8 March 2007, 12:01

Sat-nav shootout: Destinator 6 vs AA Navigator

Crave Mapping & CoverageAA Navigator UK & Ireland covers just that, the UK and Ireland, but for an extra £20 (£99 in total) you can buy the Western Europe edition, which gets you maps of the continent as well.

Tags: gps, europe, alerts, maps

2 April 2007, 13:23

ViaMichelin X-960 and X-970T: Sat-navs and tour guides

Crave It comes with maps of the UK and Ireland preinstalled and is ideal if you need something to pop in a bag when you're walking about. If you want European maps, the X-960 European version costs about £200 and the X-970 European version about £400.

Tags: viamichelin, maps, european, interest

16 March 2007, 16:24

Photos: Inside Google's UK offices

Crave There's also a projector in the reception area that beams Google Maps on to a blank wall and zooms in on all the capital cities across the world. The projector beamed images from Google Maps. While we think the application is cool enough, we couldn...

9 May 2007, 15:55

T-Mobile G1 versus Apple iPhone 3G: Side by side

Crave Google Maps with Satellite View, Traffic, Street View and compass mode that orients the screen as you move Google Maps with Satellite View and Traffic. Maps After the T-Mobile G1 was announced yesterday, we had a good hands-on with it and assessed...

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24 September 2008, 12:49

Apple launches iPhone at Macworld

Crave The phone runs a version of Apple's desktop operating system, OS X, and includes Widgets, Google Maps, the Safari browser and iTunes with CoverFlow. Apple has partnered with Google and Yahoo to bring maps and email to the device, which is set for...

Tags: apple, consumer, maps, windows vista

9 January 2007, 21:24