old version V1.2.0.9 also on my treo 650.

what’s up with that?

since only 15% of mobile phones are blackberries, how about you get this thing worked out for the palm bretheren?

I mean I would really like to track my girlfriends movements so I can check up on her all the time…

And to see when my boss moves from his office, so I can change programs to look effective…

But wait – you say that if you take it out of your pocket you can find out your location. That’s certainly true, but it takes about 80 seconds from start-up to complete a triangulation. Not many people have that patience to find out where they are. Of course you always can shave a few seconds off this process, by keeping the GPS chip running, but then you have a major power drain issue.

This release by Google is seriously revolutionary. It opens the door to so many applications. I don’t need to know whether I’m 10 feet from the nearest Starbucks, I only need to know it’s within in a few blocks. Similarly I don’t need to know that my friend is standing behind me, I only need to know she’s within half a mile. For retail stores this is the closest thing to utopia. Finally bricks and mortar companies can leverage the internet/cellphone phenomenon because the location-vector has finally arrived!

Don’t get me wrong - GPS serves its purpose. For car navigation, vehicle tracking and cruise missiles it works like a champ. But you need to apply the right technology to the right problem.

And before you accuse me of being warm and fluffy, I’m not sitting on Google stock, nor have ever had any (idiot that I am!). I’ve been waiting for this capability for a long time and am just seriously impressed with how well this worked for me today on my non-GPS enabled Blackberry.

For those who may not understand, the information about where you are comes from your cell phone–your phone knows approximate distances to the towers it can “see”. So the Google app is installed on the phone and the phone hardware allows the app to use the information. Right now, iPhone does not let us do this. Soon, my friends. Soon.

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I wonder how much Google has to pay for that location info, because it’s not free. In Germany the mobile operators charge €0.10 from third parties for every localization, and Google’s new service works also here. In Berlin we have Qiro which are mor…

after downloading, it took a while to load ( blue bar… ). Later it showed me “Your current location is temporarily unavailable”.

I didn’t closed Google Maps software. I started searching the web by typing the above generated error in Google Web Search on my PC.

Roughly in 5 or say 10 minutes when i checked my phone, I got my approximate location within 1700 metres. So It definitely works.

Do one thing ; Go to Menu->Help->About/info-> Scroll Down to the last line. You will see just like that :-

404:59:some numbers:some numbers

Here 404 means India
and 59 stands for CellOne Rajasthan.

This is a network code.

If that type of thing appears then wait for sometimes as your software might be in processing stage.

This is a useful thing. Thanks a millions to Google. Though in Beta stage it’s not pinpointed like Good SONY GPS devices but at least when you are travelling via bus or Train then say at midnight while you get up from your birth then you can get some info about your current location. It’s cool. The other way to get info is to use Cell Information feature in your phone. For Sony Ericsson phones, go to MESSAGING->SETTINGS->AREA INFO->CELL INFORMATION->ON

in standby screen you’ll see the name of place as a second line after Network name. ( Provided your operator supports. )

Thanks.

Local advertising now has legs - mom and pop shops can see the value of a google mobile ads.

Hats off to Google - this is going to be very huge - and that is an understatement.

Cheers,

Eric
PS - funny how Google has that offer that if you go around and get info on small businesses and tell them about Google and they will give you $10 bucks per business you go and talk to - an army of Google sales people. (http://www.google.com/services/local-business-referrals/repfaq.html)

Google updated its mobile maps to pinpoint your locations by triangulating between cell towers (or if you have GPS on your phone, it uses that)….