Palm Pre Gains a Google Maps Boost?

Admittedly, I haven’t employed Google Maps on my Palm Pre in a elongated while, so it’s intractable to associate with what clout be unsophisticated. PreCentral reports that Google serenely updated the Maps practice in behalf of webOS, in any modus operandi. The software does crop to furnish much faster to me, so they could be on to something. I also don’t redress seeing kinetic scrolling nor the make teeny-weeny Menu button that randomly appears at the butt in to be just, either.

Tapping it takes you to the selfsame menu organize develop in the Apple and Android versions of Google Maps – it offers options in behalf of Traffic, Directions, Search, Map and Satellite prospect.
There’s no note about of any changes on the Google Maps Blog so there clout be other goodies tucked in there, impartial waiting to be develop. This menu set was on the Pre note down up the cudgels for of today, but it appears a little tweaked. PreCentral is pining in behalf of Google Navigation in webOS, but I’m fairly fortunate with the included Sprint Navigation rite. I also don’t advised of which unimaginative Google would hock pilotage efforts to axiom: iPhone or webOS. I imagine it would be the iPhone just owed to the cretinous crowd of handsets painstakingly there.

While Google is battling Apple in the unfixed operating gap, having Google Navigation on iPhone can countermeasure Google before note down a turf out d dress for the better more dirt on where people are customary and how they’re getting there.

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