Showing posts with label Cell Phones. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cell Phones. Show all posts
Searching for the Google maps on your windows 7 phone? Well Google map is finally available for your windows phone. Windows phone 7 actually comes preloaded with the Bing map which off course is the contender for the Google maps. The Google map released their full GPS or turn by turn navigation and Microsoft was the one who soon followed it with its new app called Bing maps which features in windows phone 7.5 mango editions. The Bing map app is cool but still it lacks certain features like it is not as fast as the Google map and it location database also lacks sophistication. The turn by turn guiding system is good but when compared with Google it still lacks certain details.
Google map is available for all your window phone 7 devices. It provides extended features like fixing your location, latitude and voice search.
Features
Well, the features Google provide with its Google map app for windows is quite less then what it provides for the other OS based devices like blackberry, iPhone or iPad and especially for androids. Android as originates from the same group (Google) enjoys all the features of the Google maps. And other devices experiences slightly compromised version of the app.
The features available on windows platform includes:
Business listings:
It provide you with a feature to store your business listings on the map like, if there is someone you know at a particular place then you could save the place with the acquaintance’s name, address and phone number.
My Location:
With this feature you can see your own location on the map even if you don’t have a GPS enabled device.
Latitude
This helps you to figure out where your friends are. You can check out to tell them your location or could share place with them.
Voice search
This feature enables you to provide search string by saying anything.
Traffic
Real time traffic listing helps you in choosing alternate free route instead of the one congested with the traffic.
Street view
This feature helps you to view street level images of the certain listed places and directions.
Driving directions
Wherever data is available this feature will provide you with the directions for your driving. It may tell you about the directions you should take in order to reach the certain point.
Transit directions
The Google map will also provide you with transit directions.
Walking directions
If you prefer walking Google map can help you here also. It can provide directions for walking also.
Layers
This feature help you in selecting the type of view of the map. This actually covers a layer on the map. You may select from traffic, terrain, satellite, search results and much more.
Satellite layer
This layer gives you satellite view of the map.
Starred items
This feature allows you to tag your favorite places on the map.
So, these are the features Google map has to offer on the windows phone. But simultaneously they provide much more features on android platforms like, biking directions, navigation or turn by turn GPS system, places, 3D maps, compass mode and etc.
Download Maps for Windows 7 Phone: You can download Google Maps for your mobile phone running Windows 7 operating system from the aforementioned link. If you run into any problems, drop us a comment below.
If you own a Windows phone and you want to use a Yahoo messenger then it might be a trouble for you. As Yahoo has not officially launched Yahoo messenger for windows mobile yet. And if give a look at the windows marketplace then you will find that there are no proper instant messaging services there also, like there is one for Apple’s iPhone or the BlackBerry devices.
But there are some 3rd party messenger clients, which work pretty much good on the windows device. IM buddy is one such messenger, it could be used to login into your yahoo account through your yahoo user name and password and getting started with instant messaging right away.
You might also want to check out earlier posts about Windows Keyboard shortcuts and Tangent Tycoon windows 7 tablet review.
IM buddy
IM buddy is one of the first 3rd party yahoo messenger clients for the Windows 7 Phone. The IM buddy uses published SDK to communicate directly with the yahoo server without any middle or intermediate communicating platform or server. This makes it one of the most reliable IM apps in the marketplace. This application allows you to directly login to your yahoo account with your Yahoo ID and password and you could use it to chat and connect with your friends.
Features:
- It allows you to connect on the startup, which means you can activate auto login feature so that you don’t need to fill up your user name and password details each time you login.
- It also allows you to view your offline friends also.
- It can also receive and send messages from and to offline contacts. The messages which are sent or received offline are shown as soon as you login.
- It also shows you the thumbnail pics of the contacts.
- It also shows you the contact images in the chat window. Who so ever you are chatting you can have a look at their pic.
- It also provides you with an option to log off and shows you offline. Unlike other apps that always shows you online if you have activated the auto signup option.
- It also allows user to change or update the present status.
- Another feature which I liked was the autocomplete of the words. If you are a chat freak then you might not want to repeat some common word each time you chat. This feature completes your words by guessing what you are intended to type. But sometimes this could be a menace. So, IM buddy provides you with another option to disable it.
- It also provides you with a chat keyboard which contains shortcuts for various commonly used chat entities like smileys.
- The messages are grouped according to their date and time. This entities are grouped together to save the screen space.
- The IM Buddy also allows an user to send a BUZZ.
- Toast like notifications
- The new features have been added captcha support
- It also provides you with an option to convert incoming text messages into speech.
- It has a customizable background.
- It also has provides you with an audio alert on incoming messages.
- Also provides its users with an option to sign in as invisible.
- It also has an online link to the company’s FAQ pages, to ensure fast support of the users.
- You can also increase chat font size.