Android 2.0 gets Google Maps Navigation Beta [Video]

**notxel21** · 10-28-2009, 04:08 PM

Originally Posted by Ward

Sweet now if only my battery would last from Mountain View to San Leandro, we'll be in business!

LOL!!
Ward comes out of hiding!

**jiangsheng** · 10-28-2009, 05:10 PM

Originally Posted by Ward

Sweet now if only my battery would last from Mountain View to San Leandro, we'll be in business!

Come on, get a car charger.

**bmcclure937** · 10-29-2009, 02:09 PM

Possibly the dumbest thing about the Moto car holster, according to reviews, is that is does not have a charger built in. How difficult would it have been for Moto to include 2 metal contacts on the back of the Droid so when it is placed in a cradle, car holster/mount, etc it would be able to charge?

That would have been an awesome feature of the holster and would keep your Droid juiced up while using it as a GPS to navigate in the car. Now you will have to worry about plugging in a charger and placing it in the car mount

Also, I have not seen any videos or reviews yet on what occurs when you are using the Google Navigation and you receive a call on the Droid... I know you can run simultaneous apps, but do you think you could be on-call and still receive voice notifications of your next turn. I am sure the people at Google have thought all of this through, but they were just concerns that came to mind.

Navigation and loading data for traffic and POIs and whatnot will surely drain your battery, so hopefully an elegant solution will arrive for charging while in the car cradle.

**franklinmall** · 11-16-2009, 04:57 PM

I finally figured out how to add addresses and look up businesses on the web and synchronize them to my Navigator's "Favorites". If anyone is interested here is the link: http://my.telenav.com