It’s about time! Google’s Map Navigation software for Android devices made waves last October when it launched in the States, and now it’s coming to Australia. We’ve just received an invite to the Beta launch event in Sydney on Wednesday morning.
In case you’ve forgotton, Google Maps Navigation essentially turns your Android phone into a satnav for free. You get turn by turn voice navigation, traffic and never out-dated maps without having to spend a cent. It’s the kind of development that could put companies out of business, and it’s big news that it’s coming to Australia. We’ll be at the launch and will let you know all the announcements as they happen.
BenDTU
Monday, November 15, 2010 at 1:53 PMInteresting, though I’m sure a lot of people will already be using the BRUT hack to enable it.
From back in the day it wasn’t too bad, when it wasn’t directing you down streets that didn’t exist
Dave
Monday, November 15, 2010 at 2:17 PMThat is awesome! I’m using brut but i would prefer to be using the official version. Can’t wait for this.
Sicarius123
Monday, November 15, 2010 at 2:38 PMGoogle maps always directs me down streets that don’t exist or directs me to drive onto a street from another with no connecting road.
Don’t want that for satnav.
Worst tomtom does is tell me to turn a corner a bit too late.
noob
Tuesday, November 16, 2010 at 3:32 PMCouldn’t agree more. Much prefer using a Navman or whatever device that is specifically built for the task, any day of the week. Just a much more reliable and safer experience.
Robbie Batten
Monday, November 15, 2010 at 3:46 PMUnfortunately Tasmania enacted new legislation this year that makes it illegal to use smart phones for navigation purposes…
Simon Reidy
Monday, November 15, 2010 at 6:25 PMWhat the hell? I live in Tassie and I didn’t hear about this. I use my iPhone 4 with TomTom for navigation all the time. Is that now illegal?
Sean Tam
Monday, November 15, 2010 at 3:51 PMi’ve been using the brut hack and would revert back to using the official one just to keep it from popping up in my updates list. Too lazy to keep updating it currently because the brut mod causes it to crash unless i uninstall maps and the brut mod, then update maps and find a new version of brut to go on top.
Brut supposedly offered offline caching of maps, but i havent seen it on my dream
Hayden
Monday, November 15, 2010 at 6:21 PMFinally! Been waiting for this, hoping it was worth the wait.
moggyx
Monday, November 15, 2010 at 9:03 PMSweet, time to retire brut also :)
Steve
Monday, November 15, 2010 at 9:55 PMI hope it’s useable. I refuse to pay $60 for a GPS app based on principle.
Des
Tuesday, November 16, 2010 at 12:02 AMAwesome! We’ve been waiting for this for a long time.
sarujin
Wednesday, November 17, 2010 at 12:42 PMAwesome, as of 9:30 WAST this Wednesday it is working in Australia now.