google_maps_future

The new HTC with Google Maps Navigation.

❝ Also belting out Google’s dangerously appealing “free” mantra is Maps Navigation. It does exactly what it says on the tin and transforms the Android 2.0-based phones on which it runs into fully-featured, turn-by-turn sat-navs. And they’ll actually be good sat-navs, with voice search, live traffic, Street View (with directions overlaid on pictures of the real world) and a car dock mode with big, easily poked buttons. Will it really kill off the traditional standalone sat-nav for good? ❞