{"id":1007,"date":"2009-10-28T08:59:14","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T15:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/?p=1007"},"modified":"2009-10-28T08:59:14","modified_gmt":"2009-10-28T15:59:14","slug":"google-adds-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-car-dock-ui-to-android-2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/google-adds-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-car-dock-ui-to-android-2-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Google adds free turn-by-turn navigation, car dock UI to Android 2.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/gmap-nav-rm-eng-dnp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1008\" title=\"gmap-nav-rm-eng-dnp\" src=\"http:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/gmap-nav-rm-eng-dnp-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"gmap-nav-rm-eng-dnp\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/gmap-nav-rm-eng-dnp-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/gmap-nav-rm-eng-dnp.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Interesting how Google always seems to stir up the pot.\u00a0 Free turn by turn navigation.\u00a0 They&#8217;ll eventually come out with this on other smartphones.\u00a0 Of course, the main problem with Google maps is that you have to have a cell connection, which seems to be an issue where you need the navigation the most.\u00a0 I&#8217;m excited because this is going to be included in Verizon Droid phone, which was announced today.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2009\/10\/28\/google-adds-free-turn-by-turn-navigation-car-dock-ui-to-android\/\" target=\"_blank\">Link to article on Engadget<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting how Google always seems to stir up the pot.\u00a0 Free turn by turn navigation.\u00a0 They&#8217;ll eventually come out with this on other smartphones.\u00a0 Of course, the main problem with Google maps is that you have to have a cell connection, which seems to be an issue where you need the navigation the most.\u00a0 I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patrickchang.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}