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Google Maps 5.8 for Android improves Places and Latitude with:
Last December, the release of Google Maps 5.0 for Android ushered in the next-generation of mobile maps where you can rotate, tilt, and zoom in and out of 3D maps. Whether you’re on the go or playing with a new phone, seeing a 3D skyline spring up in New York City, Zurich,Milan, and other cities is a helpful, fun, and unique experience - an experience we want as many of you as we can to have for your city.
Today Google Maps added live traffic coverage for 13 European countries: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Spain and Switzerland. The new traffic information will automatically be available in Google Maps for Android, iOS, and mobile browsers.
Today Google are announcing a new set of features in Google Shopper for Android to make it even easier to research products and find great value deals when you’re on-the-go.
First, Google have moved features around a bit to help you perform common tasks more quickly. For example, the ‘Starred’ and ‘History’ buttons are now at the top of the page. New tabs on the bottom of the screen have also been added for fast navigation to Google Shopper’s newest features.
With Google Shopper, you can now find, save and redeem offers at nearby businesses through three tabs:
One way Google bring you new product features is through Google Labs - a collection of fun, experimental features you can turn on if you’re interested in the functionality. In fact, Google Maps itself started as a lab. In addition to Google’s desktop Maps Labs, Google Maps for Android has a few tricks you can try out right from your phone. The latest experimental feature, “Download map area," is available, and there’s also two other exciting features already available: “Scale bar” and “Measure.”
Google have released Google Maps 5.7 for Android. From Bangkok to Baltimore, Google have added Transit Navigation (Beta), updated access to directions, better suggested search results, and a photo viewer to Place pages - all of which can help you whether you’re traveling to an unfamiliar part of town or visiting a city across the world.
Google have made it easier to check in and out of places, rate various locations, and get transit information with Google Maps 5.5 for Android. This release adds ‘check in’ and ‘rate and review’ buttons to Place pages, the option to edit your home/work address for Latitude, and redesigned transit station pages.
These new features will enhance user experience, a topic Google take very seriously as there are now more than 200 million users of Google Maps for mobile across platforms and devices worldwide.
Every day, Google News crawls through thousands of news articles to present you with the most relevant and recent stories. For a long time, the Google team realised that bringing relevant news to the surface is only part of the puzzle—it should also be easy to scan for stories of interest and dig deeper when you find them.
The newly expandable stories on Google News in the U.S., released today, give you greater story diversity with less clutter.
Now you can easily see more content, see less of what you don’t use and have a more streamlined experience:
Google News for mobile lets you keep up with the latest news, wherever you are. Google are excited to announce a new feature in the U.S. English edition called “News near you” that surfaces news relevant to the city you’re in and surrounding areas.
Nearly 1 million developers attended Google I/O 2011 at I/O Extended events and online via I/O Live from 161 countries around the world.
The keynote presentations highlighted the momentum and vision for two of Google's most important developer platforms: Android and Chrome.
