Google releases Google Maps for Mobile Windows Mobile client Google released a Google Maps Mobile for Windows Mobile devices application today so you no longer have to have a Java client and use the Java utility to find directions and locations on Google Maps. You can visit the Google Maps for Mobile website, download and then install the.CAB file now for your Windows Mobile device. I just installed it on my Dash and like it even better than the Java client because the fonts are cleaner, the navigation is better integrated, and I don't have to go through all those Java midlet authorization screens. You can use it to show traffic status too and it is available for free.

Make sure you have an unlimited data plan though before downloading map data to your device. Google Maps for Mobile works like a champ on the Nokia S60 devices I have been evaluating and playing with for the last year, but if you wanted to run it on a Windows Mobile device you had to have a Java client and then run it inside the Java utility. Luckily, my T-Mobile Dash does include a Java client and I have had Google Maps running on it for a while now.

Hello everyone, I recently bought a Windows CE 6.0 based Car Navigation system.

My buddy Kevin just sent me a note and posted a on the release today of Google Maps Mobile for Windows Mobile devices. You can visit the, download and then install the.CAB file now for your Windows Mobile device. I just installed it on my Dash and like it even better than the Java client because the fonts are cleaner, the navigation is better integrated, and I don't have to go through all those Java midlet authorization screens. You can use it to show traffic status too, which is very helpful for my 2+ hour daily commute in the Puget Sound region.

Even though there is a GPS menu option, this functionality only works with Helio devices. I would love for it to work with a Bluetooth GPS connection and hope that functionality is added in the future. I see there is also a.PRC file for Palm OS 5 devices, like the Treo 680 and 700p, but I do not know if that is something that was just launched too since I no longer have a Palm OS smartphone. Is another excellent choice that I use on my T-Mobile Dash, and other Windows Mobile devices, and it has had a client available for over a year. If you have a Pocket PC Phone Edition and a Bluetooth GPS then you should be able to get position location using GPS with this application. Traffic support is not provided in Virtual Earth Mobile though. Related Topics.

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A lot of Chinese *Windows Mobile* devices come with it or a lot of *Windows CE* devices? If the former, sure, no problem; there's a Windows Mobile version of Google Maps. If the latter, I'm somewhat surprised.

It's quite possible to extract the contents of the CAB file, put them in your OS directly, making the correct shortcut entries and registry entries. Maybe that will work; maybe it's a violation of the license agreement with Google.

Obviously, if you have some hot device that Google would want to be associated with, you can contact them and ask about the individual files needed to build it into a CE device. Hi Paul, I tried to install google maps for windows Mobile in wince 5.0 which is a cab file. It gives a error 'wrong Platform or OS'. I saw lot of chinese gps devices comes with wince 5.0 installed with google Maps I'am just wondering,How the did it.If u came to know anthing Pls help some time. Thanks Paul..

It is no problem to change 'Platform' field by 'WinCE CAB Manager' utility and try to launch it again. But it becomes another problem with Win Mobile special DLL's, like 'aygshell' (also presents in CE), 'mfcce300', etc You don't need to install Google Maps to obtain GPS coordinates, just make a simple implementation of NMEA protocol with GPS module.