Google Maps for Mobile 5 gets 3D graphics
100 cities worldwide receive a 3D makeover on the free mapping service
Google’s superb gratis navigation service for smartphones – Google Maps for mobile – has received a rather glossy update, as was shown off by the company’s Andy Rubin at the D: Dive into Mobile event last night.
The Honeycomb OS has a typical Android style enhanced by on-screen desktop-esque navigational inflections brought on by the lack of the usual trio of navigation buttons found on Android handsets. Rubin said: “This is an early version of Honeycomb, that’s what the engineers are all working on right now and it will be out sometime next year.”
Details are scant on the actual tablet: the name isn’t official, and according to Rubin it “isn’t due out for a while now”, but he could confirm it has a dual-core Nvidia 3D processor. There’s also no launch date, but with Honeycomb expected early 2011, we could well see it hit the market around the same time as the Apple iPad 2 and RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook. Now that sounds like a good tablet fight if ever we saw one.
What do you think of the displayed version of Android 3.0?
100 cities worldwide receive a 3D makeover on the free mapping service
Google’s superb gratis navigation service for smartphones – Google Maps for mobile – has received a rather glossy update, as was shown off by the company’s Andy Rubin at the D: Dive into Mobile event last night.
The Honeycomb OS has a typical Android style enhanced by on-screen desktop-esque navigational inflections brought on by the lack of the usual trio of navigation buttons found on Android handsets. Rubin said: “This is an early version of Honeycomb, that’s what the engineers are all working on right now and it will be out sometime next year.”
Details are scant on the actual tablet: the name isn’t official, and according to Rubin it “isn’t due out for a while now”, but he could confirm it has a dual-core Nvidia 3D processor. There’s also no launch date, but with Honeycomb expected early 2011, we could well see it hit the market around the same time as the Apple iPad 2 and RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook. Now that sounds like a good tablet fight if ever we saw one.
What do you think of the displayed version of Android 3.0?
