Power your phone with Google Local mobile

Colin Dunstan · 11-07-2005, 05:19 AM

Nobody can question Google's expertise when it comes to building search applications. The company's latest brainchild: Google Local for mobile, a downloadable and free application that lets you view maps and satellite imagery, find local businesses, and get driving directions on your phone. At this time, Local for mobile works with most Java-enabled (J2ME) phones offered by Cingular, Spring and T-Mobile. Alas, connected Blackberry and Palm devices are currently unsupported.

You should probably note that while Google doesn't store information that can directly identify you, it does associate a unique identifying number with your phone (I hear privacy advocates already sounding the war drums).

Update: Direct download links posted in this thread.

[via SearchEngineWatch]

Alexander Turcic · 11-07-2005, 05:17 PM

Direct links to the java applets:

http://www.google.com/glm/apps/v1.0.0/gmaps-midp1.jar
http://www.google.com/glm/apps/v1.0.0/gmaps-midp2.jar

11-07-2005, 05:19 AM	#1
Colin Dunstan Is papyrophobic! Posts: 1,926 Karma: 1009999 Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: USA Device: Dell Axim	Power your phone with Google Local mobile Nobody can question Google's expertise when it comes to building search applications. The company's latest brainchild: Google Local for mobile, a downloadable and free application that lets you view maps and satellite imagery, find local businesses, and get driving directions on your phone. At this time, Local for mobile works with most Java-enabled (J2ME) phones offered by Cingular, Spring and T-Mobile. Alas, connected Blackberry and Palm devices are currently unsupported. You should probably note that while Google doesn't store information that can directly identify you, it does associate a unique identifying number with your phone (I hear privacy advocates already sounding the war drums). Update: Direct download links posted in this thread. [via SearchEngineWatch]

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11-07-2005, 05:17 PM	#2
Alexander Turcic Fully Converged Posts: 18,163 Karma: 14021202 Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Switzerland Device: Too many to count here.	Direct links to the java applets: http://www.google.com/glm/apps/v1.0.0/gmaps-midp1.jar http://www.google.com/glm/apps/v1.0.0/gmaps-midp2.jar

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