Software

Google Offers Updated Maps Features Through Android Market

Google updated their integral Maps Android app with some pretty sweet new features, including voice search, public transit and walking directions, and a beefed-up Latitude. It’s great to see them pushing updates as they’re ready, without waiting for carriers. [Google]


March 26, 2009
Software

BlackBerrys Get Their Very Own Google Voice Search App

The extremely-neat-but-probably-not-terribly-useful Google Voice Search app, of iPhone and Android fame, has been released for BlackBerrys, whose owners were judged 3rd most eager to talk to their handsets rather than through them. [Crave]


November 18, 2008
Software

Google’s iPhone Voice Search Mobile App Now Available

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That Google Mobile for iPhone with talky talky search action is now up. Our own impressions of it are good. When you’re not in a noisy place (or another phone is ringing in the background) it can pretty much translate anything you say into a meaningful phrase. “Gizmodo” was understood, surprisingly, as was “bear market” and “bare ass”. That’s right, it was smart enough to tell the difference between the words bear and bare, depending on the context. Also super cool? The jibberish noise it makes when it’s searching for something. If you’re an iPhone user, you should go get it now right here.


July 4, 2008
Mobile

BlackBerry Pearl Gets Google Maps with Voice Search

Google has just released a new version of their maps application that supports voice recognition search on the BlackBerry Pearl. That means Pearl users can load Google Maps, hold a side button, say “pizza, i said PIZZA…PEE ZZ UH” and have the application magically find tacos in your immediate vicinity. This upgrade doesn’t look to be automatic, so hit the link to have Google text message your phone for the “experimental” update. [Google Maps via Gear Diary]