“Keep Left, and You’ll Be Bona Fide!” TomTom Turns to Snoop Dogg, the Original GPS Gangsta
If there was ever a reason to buy a TomTom portable navigation device, this is it. Even if you have the latest greatest smartphone — say, the Motorola Droid on Verizon, with Android 2.0 and Google Maps Navigation — you still may want to buy a TomTom. Even if you have the TomTom iPhone app and car kit, you may want to buy a TomTom PND. Heck I may even buy one myself now. Why? Because Cordazar Calvin Broadus, aka Snoop Dogg, the recording artist that brought us such timeless classics as “Gin and Juice” and “The Shiznit” has loaned — dare I say, pimped out — his voice to TomTom.
Telmap Unveils Android Version of its Navigation App
Is this a sign of the times? Yet another mobile navigation app, announced on Black Friday of all days, but this one is for the Android operating system. Navigation software and location-based services provider Telmap, makers of the appropriately if not particularly inspired named Telmap Navigator for Android, noted that Android is the “fastest growing smartphone operating system in 2009,” citing diviners at market research firm Current Analysis.
Google Makes it Official: Google Maps Navigation Available for Android Versions 1.6 and Later
Jealous of those Motorola (An)Droid owners and their Google Maps Navigation app? Ready to hack your older phone with an earlier version of Google’s Android operating system on it? Wait! Don’t touch that code! The Google announced via its Google Mobile blog that the free navigation app is now available for phones running with Android 1.6 (cute codename: Donut) and higher. That means all you T-Mobile myTouch and G1 owners (assuming you live in the United States) can now take advantage of it.
Phriday Phone News: Casio G’zOne Rock Comes to Verizon, and Maybe Samsung Omnia II, Too
The rugged, GPS-enabled Casio G’zOne (pronounced geez won … *sigh*) Rock is perhaps a more annoyingly spelled product name than anything Garmin has ever come up with (even without any umlauts). But it is not without merit; designed for peeps that like to play outside, the handset features six operating modes, including Earth Compass, Walking Counter, Thermometer, Astro Calendar, and Sunrise Sunset and Tides. Netflix and the couch more your speed? Verizon is also getting the new gee-whiz Samsung Omnia II, according to the Intertubes.
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