Google Maps update is amazing for upcoming Android 2.0 devices, which is currently used in particular Motorola Droid. The new version works with Android 1.6 and upwards, which therefore means Goggle Maps for Sony Ericsson’s XPERIA X10 with Android.
Does it all
Google calls the update for the Google Maps navigation, and there is no doubt that just the navigation part is the big news. You can make ingenious use of Google’s search engine when looking for locations. An example could be that you wanted to find a restaurant in the province or maybe a parking lot.
You can also talk directly to the program via the speech recognition from Google Voice. Apart from the demonstration video, it appears to be a very advanced speech recognition feature that cleverly can capture even cumbersome phrases.
Semantic searches are the future. Google is always working to figure out just what we’re looking for with those obscure search string – in essence, trying to read between the lines. Figuring out the meaning behind the search is a critical next step in web-search, and the next step after that is semantic image-based searches. We haven’t mentioned semantic visual search technology is quite some time, but the idea.