How To Use Google Maps Navigation On Android
May 24, 2011 04:45 PM EDT by 
Yes, this is an obvious one, but it’s hard to beat free spoken turn-by-turn directions built right into the Android OS. On iOS the Maps app delivers directions but they’re not spoken, and you don’t get a 3D view of your route either. If you want a bona fide GPS navigation experience, you’ll have to download an additional app, most of which are paid.
Step by Step
- Open the Maps application and search for an address.
- Once you see the business or specific address you want to navigate to, tap on it.
- On the next screen tap the button that looks like a right turn sign.
- You’ll be presented with three options. Choose Driving Navigation.
- If your phone has more than one GPS application, tap Navigation under “Complete Action using.”
- Click Accept on the next screen when you see Google Maps Navigation is in beta. Use caution.
Your Android phone will now calculate driving directions and search for a GPS signal.
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September 14th, 2012 at 8:22 am
Also very cool with Google Maps for Android: You can upload hundreds of points to your Google ‘My Maps’ online – and then access those uploaded points on your Android phone. Once there – you can navigate to them as you would any other point.
Very useful for sales people, real estate agents, route delivery, etc. See a tutorial on how to do it on YouTube here: http://youtu.be/gGiaixIFiYU
December 22nd, 2012 at 3:25 pm
I got this android phone, Concord, made by ZTE for T mobile. Whenever I try to type anything into it in any google application, or email, it changes it. So if I try to type an address into google maps it changes it and then says it can’t find it or goes to an entirely different place. I notice a bunch of words below the search bar and it seems that it only accepts one of those words. Type in anything else and it changes to one of the words in the list, the one it thinks is closest. The same thing for email, but email always crashes so it doesnt matter. Of course that makes it totally useless and makes you want to slam the phone on the ground and stomp on it. But I suppose they must have had something in mind when they made it this way. But what I cannot imagine.