Since being launched almost 5 years ago, Google Maps for mobile has grown to become one of the most highly used mobile services, with over 100 million users accessing the service every month.
The advance of Google Maps is a good indicator of how smartphones have developed, from being points of access to information to now supplying a wide variety of applications, such as GPS location based services, as well as enhanced web browsing and multimedia functionality. All of these advancements in mobile technology have helped grow a wide variety of services, like Google Maps, and as manufacturers continue to produce even more powerful devices out reliance on these services will only continue to grow.
Google Maps can be accessed on a wide variety of handsets, as well as smartphones such as the iPhone, BlackBerry, Android powered handsets and Symbian devices, Google Maps can also be utilised on many mid range handsets that support java. To get Google Maps on your handset, simply point your mobile browser to m.google.co.uk/maps and follow the instructions from there.
