There’s a lot of speculation about Google working on and preparing to release a mobile navigation app. For free. The logic’s there and the pieces fit, but we still lack solid proof.
With Google’s increased focus on collecting map data (and less reliance on third-party map providers such as Tele Atlas) and Android 2.0’s rumored turn-by-turn directions in the soon-to-be-released Droid, it’s feasible that they are in fact making preparations to let out a new Google product.
https://gizmodo.com/android-2-0-official-its-the-android-weve-been-waiting-5391043
Android and Me, who has dubbed this app as the Google Navigator (which seems like it would fit well enough with Google’s naming pattern), predicts that we’ll see it in 2010. Forbes doesn’t care to throw out a date, but one thing’s for sure anyway: A free app of this nature from Google could definitely shake up the mobile navigation game. [Android and Me; Forbes via Engadget]
