New version of Google Maps for Windows Mobile

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Good news. Google maps is now available as a standalone, non-java program for Windows Mobile devices. No more midlet business.

It’s faster and easier to use than Live Search, in my opinion (although with fewer bells and whistles like movie times, etc.) and features real-time traffic, favorites, GPS locating, map or satellite imagery, contact lookup, and more.

It takes up a little under a megabyte of space and can be downloaded by going to www.google.com/gmm from your Windows Mobile device or you can click the link below for more info.

Google Maps via msmobiles.com

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6 Comments so far

 
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Big John (Who am I?)

Been out for awhile my friend, loaded it october 1 onto my blackjack

 
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Kyle (Who am I?)

This has been available for almost a year now.

 
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Doug Aamoth (Who am I?)

This version is a dedicated, native, installable Windows Mobile app now. It doesn’t need to run as a Java midlet any more. Sorry for the confusion.

 
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Nate (Who am I?)

I installed it a few days ago on a Q, no Java.

 
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Fred (Who am I?)

To clear up the confusion - Google Maps has been out for quite a while as a WM-native (non-Java) app. Google did, however, just release a new version. It supposedly has real-time traffic information and some other tweaks. I don’t think either it or Windows Live Search have nailed it yet. WLS has more features, but it’s slower, and I have never been able to search for a specific street address with any success - it just pulls up a map of the whole zip code. So I have both on my Blackjack.

 
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Johann Lazarus (Who am I?)

I am looking for maps of New Zealand roads to put on my i-mate JasJam. Are there any available?

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