Google debuts free navigation app

Google unveiled its own free navigation application, called Google Maps Navigation, which offers spoken, turn-by-turn directions and is likely going to be seen as a challenge to the incumbents in the location-based services market, like TeleNav and TomTom.

The application currently is only available for phones running on Android 2.0, the latest version of Google's mobile operating system. Verizon Wireless launched the first Android 2.0 phone, the Motorola Droid, today. According to Forrester Research, the personal navigation market currently has 21 percent penetration among American adults, but is expected to grow by 33 percent a year over the next five years. Additionally, according to Forrester, smartphone-based navigation systems will dominate the market by 2013.

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