Feeling left out of the hot GPS action? Google Maps Mobile 2.0 might help

It looks like Google Maps for Windows Mobile isn’t the only thing getting updated. We’re a little late on this news, but we wanted to actually test it out before trying to explain it. The biggest new feature of Google Maps Mobile 2.0 is called "My Location," and if used on a GPS enabled phone, it provides location mapping giving you a nice free alternative to the pay GPS mapping services. The real meat of this new feature, however, is what happens when you don’t have a phone with GPS, or even a clear GPS signal. Google Maps will now attempt to triangulate your position based off of nearby cell phone towers. Check out the review tested on one our Blackberry 8300s — no, not a BlackBerry 8310 — after the jump!

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Original post by Greg Henderson

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