Yesterday’s gossip du jour – Google Turn-By-Turn Directions – got officialized pretty shucks quickly. Google has meet officially announced the assist which module prototypal be acquirable ONLY on Android 2.0 devices and provided an awing recording demo:

As you would expect/hope and as we said it would be – Google Maps Navigation is a flooded panting GPS Navigation application:

This newborn feature comes with everything you’d move to encounter in a GPS counselling system, same 3D views, turn-by-turn vocalise counselling and semiautomatic rerouting. But different most counselling systems, Google Maps Navigation was shapely from the connector up to verify plus of your phone’s cyberspace connection.

Google reminds us of whatever of the awing capabilities, some which are direct equal to the full “Internet” thing.

(1) Updated Contact Info – since searches are finished springy via the web, when a playing listing/address changes it doesn’t concern to you. You’re ever actuation springy accumulation from the scheme which reduces “incorrect” addresses or winking businesses when intelligent by business.

(2) Search in arts – identify it, see it, advise navigate. BOOM – done.

(3) Speak the instruction and it module encounter it… you crapper modify feature something not definite, same “Mexican Restaurant in metropolis nearby the stadium” and Google module essay to impact its magic.

(4) Traffic view. Google collects real-time reciprocation accumulation which – surmisal what? – gets utilised here

(5) Search along line – manifest and awesome

(6) Satellite View

(7) Street View

(8) Car Dock Mode

The folks at TechCrunch grabbed this lowercase recording demonstrate that was performed at the Droid start event:

I dead CANNOT WAIT to essay this out. It looks fantastic. The Street analyse band is meet magnificent – hopefully they crapper act up its arrange of availability. Something tells me I won’t hit to move daylong for my prototypal effort separate

[Google Navigation via Official Google Blog]