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Although G1 users have that sweet compass-based Street View implementation, we haven’t heard much about turn-by-turn nav on Android until at this time — AndNav2 is a new alpha app that uses OpenStreetMap Dat. to get you where you’re going. It’s currently supported in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Austria, France, Denmark, Spain, Switzerland, and Italy — apparently the folks at AndNav don’t have server enough for a Stateside implementation, although they hope to have this remedied in the future. In the meantime, it seems like Americans hoping to get from one place to another will have to either continue to Rel. on their superior sense of direction or, more likely, their Knight Rider GPS.

[Via Googleandblog]

Continue reading AndNav2 brings turn-by-turn navigation to the European Android jet set

AndNav2 brings turn-by-turn navigation to the European Android jet set originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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In the grand tradition of TMI, the G1’s gone through a teardown for your voyeuristic pleasure. Underneath that chubby matte shell there are all sorts of build-related details that you probably didn’t need to know, like the fact that Panasonic built the main board, the compass was built by Asahi Kasei (exciting, we know) and the keyboard element is thin. Some might say too thin. Perhaps of most note is the trackball, which is basically identical to what RIM uses — minus the fancy glowing effect. All riveting factoids, we assure you. One item of worry is that the engineers Makethe teardown noted the particular thinness of the plastic bar connecting the sliding display to the phone, and raised the troubling possibility of breaking the display off from he handset. We certainly won’t be stress testing that element, we can assure you.

T-Mobile G1 ripped to shreds, uses same trackball as RIM’s — maybe they can be friends originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Fri, 31 Oct 2008 10:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Google just posted a few videos showing all the Google applications loaded on the T-Mobile G1. This includes Seach, Maps, Gmail and Contacts, Calendar, Google Talk and You Tube all enabled with a single sign-on — no further logins are required. The fact that these are fully synchronized to the web negates the need for a desktop application. Nice. Amazon MP3 store, IMing, Street View compass mode and plenty more highlighted in the videos posted after the break.

Continue reading Video: Android walkthrough on T-Mobile G1

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